The Britains Ltd animals in my zoo

WILLYBACOMAN wrote:

The croc is one of the set of 2 baby crocs, unless it has a hole in its stumach, then it is from the miniset as an adult croc...

Nice to see someone else collecting Britains Minisets Willy!

Chris

Chris Sweetman wrote:

WILLYBACOMAN wrote:

The croc is one of the set of 2 baby crocs, unless it has a hole in its stumach, then it is from the miniset as an adult croc...

Nice to see someone else collecting Britains Minisets Willy!

Chris

Welcome to the forum Chris! Another member from England

Welcome to the forum to from me to Chris!
It is always nice to see and hear from the home-country of Britains, and specially the knowledge.
I knew about the bases, but they are easy to change, so if a base is original always...
I didn't try to change them on the different models.
Anyway, you can put the lightblue base on the flamingo if you like, so how do we know if it was originally there...
For the bearcubs the same...

Welcome Chris!!

Thanks for the welcome Harriet, Willy and Andreas.

I have been collecting Herald farm since I was about two years old. Britains zoo animals came a bit later on when I was about seven years old. Still have the Britains catalogues from 1965 to 2010!

Looks like a fabulous forum.

Chris

Chris Sweetman wrote:

Britains catalogues from 1965 to 2010!

Wow, that's fantastic!

HKHollinstone wrote:

Chris Sweetman wrote:

Britains catalogues from 1965 to 2010!

Wow, that's fantastic!

Chris Sweetman wrote:

Thanks for the welcome Harriet, Willy and Andreas.

I have been collecting Herald farm since I was about two years old. Britains zoo animals came a bit later on when I was about seven years old. Still have the Britains catalogues from 1965 to 2010!

Looks like a fabulous forum.

Chris

That's impressive, Chris! :)
This is the perfect place to someone that loves animal replicas like you and you and your knowledge are surely very welcome here! :)
I started recently with Britains figures and I confess that I'm having a lot of fun with these little vintage figures! :)

Chris Sweetman wrote:

Thanks for the welcome Harriet, Willy and Andreas.

I have been collecting Herald farm since I was about two years old. Britains zoo animals came a bit later on when I was about seven years old. Still have the Britains catalogues from 1965 to 2010!

Looks like a fabulous forum.

Chris

Welcome to the forum Chris

HKHollinstone wrote:

Chris Sweetman wrote:

Britains catalogues from 1965 to 2010!

Wow, that's fantastic!

Thank you Harriet. A part from a few early ones most were bought/obtained when they were issued.

widukind wrote:

HKHollinstone wrote:

Chris Sweetman wrote:

Britains catalogues from 1965 to 2010!

Wow, that's fantastic!

Thanks Andreas.

Roger wrote:

Chris Sweetman wrote:

Thanks for the welcome Harriet, Willy and Andreas.

I have been collecting Herald farm since I was about two years old. Britains zoo animals came a bit later on when I was about seven years old. Still have the Britains catalogues from 1965 to 2010!

Looks like a fabulous forum.

Chris

That's impressive, Chris! :)
This is the perfect place to someone that loves animal replicas like you and you and your knowledge are surely very welcome here! :)
I started recently with Britains figures and I confess that I'm having a lot of fun with these little vintage figures! :)

Thanks Roger and part of my fun was also collecting these catalogues!

animalluvr6 wrote:

Chris Sweetman wrote:

Thanks for the welcome Harriet, Willy and Andreas.

I have been collecting Herald farm since I was about two years old. Britains zoo animals came a bit later on when I was about seven years old. Still have the Britains catalogues from 1965 to 2010!

Looks like a fabulous forum.

Chris

Welcome to the forum Chris

Thank you Kelsey

Chris

Great to have you here Chris, as mentioned before, we oldies do have a lot of stuff from our youth, directly bought when they came out!
I still have some gaps in my Britains catalogues, but i will find them for a good price some day, but i do have a lot of them between 1969-2010 to, i have 22 in totall, with some gaps here and there...

WILLYBACOMAN wrote:

Great to have you here Chris, as mentioned before, we oldies do have a lot of stuff from our youth, directly bought when they came out!
I still have some gaps in my Britains catalogues, but i will find them for a good price some day, but i do have a lot of them between 1969-2010 to, i have 22 in totall, with some gaps here and there...

Thanks for the welcome Willy. Yes, I have lots of interesting stuff accumulated over the years!

Good luck in filling the gaps in your Britains catalogue collection. I agree it is best to wait for them to be at the right price.

BTW I have found your site very useful.

Chris

No thanks Chris, you are very welcome, we can need people like you here very much!
Older people like we are, just have more knowledge on collecting these old brands as shown before here on the forum.
Older catalogues are tending to be expensive, specially Britains, which is quit populair in the Netherlands.
Those 1960's catalogues go between 25-50 euro per album.
The newer ones go from 5-20 euro a piece...
I hope my site helped you a lot, asking is free of course!

WILLYBACOMAN wrote:

I hope my site helped you a lot, asking is free of course!

And your answer Willy?

On what Andreas, i think i missed something here, haha...

WILLYBACOMAN wrote:

On what Andreas, i think i missed something here, haha...

Sorry, now i dont understand.

WILLYBACOMAN wrote:

No thanks Chris, you are very welcome, we can need people like you here very much!
Older people like we are, just have more knowledge on collecting these old brands as shown before here on the forum.
Older catalogues are tending to be expensive, specially Britains, which is quit populair in the Netherlands.
Those 1960's catalogues go between 25-50 euro per album.
The newer ones go from 5-20 euro a piece...
I hope my site helped you a lot, asking is free of course!

Hi Willy

I once saw a 1960 Britains trade catalogue at a toy fair a few years ago which included a 'New additions' leaflet.

Now the price ...... but please sit down first .........

£225!

Chris

Haha Andreas, i think we should forget it, i can't remember either...

Wow Chris, that price is huge!
Even when those catalogues do tend to go high here to, i saw on ebay England, that Britains is often more expensive then here, which seems logical on one side...
A known brand in the country of heritage does better there, as people know more about the brand.
I often buy very cheap Britains stuff on ebay Germany, as the brand seems not to be interesting for collectors there so much...

Yesterday we were talking about the deetail and vintage stuff, and the old colourations and plastics.
Just today i had a package in with Britains and Hausser Elastolin models, including a springbuck in the older material, damaged, but not bad, and a keeper of course.
Actually i buy most of the Britains lots for other collectors on the forum, so i can make them happy to.

WILLYBACOMAN wrote:

Haha Andreas, i think we should forget it, i can't remember either...

After my sleepless night?

Okay!!

I don't sleep much at night either, because i sleep during the day most of the time the last months...

WILLYBACOMAN wrote:

I don't sleep much at night either, because i sleep during the day most of the time the last months...

I hope all is okay.

Besides lack of money, is everything relatively ok...

WILLYBACOMAN wrote:

Besides lack of money, is everything relatively ok...

Oh yes, the money. But it is good to hear that all the rest is well.

Relatively...

WILLYBACOMAN wrote:

Relatively...

Than i hope for better times for you.