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The biggest mistake as a collector

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12-09-2002, 08:56 AM

On a business trip to Russia in 1999 I arranged so that I had three saturdays in Moscow - to look around Izmailova of course. On the last saturday, while leaving the park to get to my hotel and head out for the airport to return home I saw a guy with some uniforms at the cheap and lonely end of the park. Among some aveage stuff he had a long-leather coat with Marshal of the Tank troops boards. Both coat and boards were very genuine and not the modern tinsely repro junk. The coat had signs of very long wear where the boards were so they were probably original to it. The prce was $400 US.

Sadly I had no money left! No chance to get more as there were no cash machines in the area that took Visa. No one to borrow from! An opportunity lost forever. Boo hoo.

Shawn

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The biggest mistake as a collector - by Tal Inbar - 12-06-2002, 11:53 PM

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The biggest mistake as a collector - by HuliganRS - 12-07-2002, 01:53 PM

The biggest mistake as a collector - by otlichnik - 12-09-2002, 08:56 AM

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