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Post by alberries on Dec 31, 2015 15:47:10 GMT 2
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Post by alberries on Dec 31, 2015 15:55:37 GMT 2
There's brilliant history to many of these as well, at least to any of you that know the comic collecting world. Kennet Neily was a reclusive collector who died recently, leaving the world what has since become known as the white mountain comic collection. He basically stored his stuff in metal boxes for years untouched. He famously dated his comics, and it is one of the few cases where writing on the comic makes it worth more than without! Google 'white mountain collection' to check it out. Anyhow, he was also squirreling away game and watch. And he also signed them! I've been checking his writing with that on comics (via ebay), and it's the same, so it's definitely him. I've no idea if this means anything to the game & watch community, but for me it's so exciting to have an exact history and provenance for so many beautiful games. And that that history coincides with such a famous collection in the world of comics.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 31, 2015 17:27:19 GMT 2
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Post by alberries on Dec 31, 2015 19:50:09 GMT 2
Hi kestrel. I got a lot more than those two, although they are prob the nicest!
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Post by ash888 on Jan 1, 2016 22:38:13 GMT 2
What an incredible find! Well done, Alan. Even better to know some of the history behind this collection.
I never even saw those on eBay, although I've been hunting a lot less frequently of late. How did you manage to get them?
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Post by alberries on Jan 2, 2016 15:14:59 GMT 2
Hiya Bruce
Greenhouse, Mickey & Donald, Snoopy, Blackjack, DK jnr, DK, DK 2, popeye, fire, oil panic and Pinball all come from the White Mountain Collection. They're all signed.
Crab Grab, Spitball, and Cement Factory I all had before from a different source (you guys discussed it at the time I seem to remember).
And Mickey Mouse, I do believe, came from you!
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Post by alberries on Jan 2, 2016 15:20:03 GMT 2
I may also have to sell a few of these to pay for the rest, so if anyone's interested, just message me or email me alan.levy@virgin.net
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Post by gameandwatch on Jan 2, 2016 21:00:07 GMT 2
Hi Alan
deeply impressed by your mint PS collection !!!!
nice job man, love it !
cheers, gameandwatch
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Post by Gamewatchcollector on Jan 2, 2016 23:02:50 GMT 2
Hi Alan, They look nice I guess you don't mind them being signed by someone not associated with Nintendo/Game & Watch as they're in Mint condition?
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Post by alberries on Jan 3, 2016 3:32:07 GMT 2
Hi Alan, They look nice I guess you don't mind them being signed by someone not associated with Nintendo/Game & Watch as they're in Mint condition? I think of it in almost opposite terms: as a big compliment to our community that such a famous collector also thought to collect Game & Watch. He went out and bought them himself, dated them, and then stored them away with his comics and books. It also excites me that this is an intersection between different generations of collectibles (comics / electronics). I'm sure I feel this keenly as I was a comic collector as well that turned to g&w. Plus it's a stamp of quality, a kite-mark. His comics were really really beautiful, and so are these. They are literally part of the white mountain collection.
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Post by ash888 on Jan 4, 2016 0:39:52 GMT 2
I think it's an interesting bit of history. What does the mark say? I looks like "SUN" but it could be something else.
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Post by alberries on Jan 4, 2016 2:56:58 GMT 2
I think it's an interesting bit of history. What does the mark say? I looks like "SUN" but it could be something else. It is a sun for sunday. They are all date stamped... I checked, 30/6/86 was a Monday... It's what he must have done obsessively, date when he bought things for his collection and mark it. He'd been doing it for decades... Here's a comic from the white mountain collection from 1960:
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Post by ash888 on Jan 4, 2016 8:10:53 GMT 2
Very cool!
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