As clean as it gets!

[stogieman]

Quite pleased, I am, to have snagged this mint, cased & boxed 1939 EK1 from Detlev this AM! I don't think you could get any better on condition!

[stogieman]

And the box!

Love finding these!

[Pascal H.]

Congratulations

Congratulations Rick .

Ps. I bet you had to be real quick to get this one.

[Gerd Becker]

WOW!

Very nice EK, you have there! Never seen one, that was SO mint!

[paddywhack]

hhhhhhhm mmmmiinntyyyy fresh!!!!! you CANT get better then that!!!!!! im very jealous!!!!

[RoyA]

Good catch Stogieman.....we finally get to see a '26' with the outer cartonage...you must've been quick on the trigger this morning!
Roy

[Frank Heukemes]

Dear Stogie-Rick,

Once you will hold that in your hands, could we please do a very thorough comparison between outer cartons by Mayer? I nvere really grasped what makes some bad and some (which look the same to me) good.

P.S.: I have one to compare (clueless if it is good or bad).

Cheers, Frank

[gregM]

VERY NICE

[Don D.]

good grab Rick, I was on and hadan order placed within 5 minutes only to get the old "sorry, sold" reply.

[mads]

Great cross Rick!

Mads

[stogieman]

Thanks!

Yep, pretty thrilled and thanks for the kind words. I'm just a sucker for mint & boxed items.... it's all those years as a toy & train collector....
it was always (and still is) condition, condition and condition.
Of course we also had the three "R's", which were to be avoided at any/all costs!

Repair, Repaint, Restore....

Only naughty boys did that! Of course the manufacture of fakes was pretty far and between, but I've seen some repair/restore jobs that you couldn't tell without an X-ray and/or gas spectromoty!

[Blitz]

Oh my God, Rick!

[MH184]

I know Neal Howes has a reproduction outer carton similar if not the same as Ricks 26 box (same style, I'm not saying Ricks is fake). I had it in my hand and it's very convincing.

Neil are you out there, can you post some pic's ?

Kind regards,

Marcus

[Allan P.]

Yes, please can we see some shots of the outer carton, printing etc, even a shot of the inside of the carton please.

I've been waiting to see an outer carton for one of these EK1 for awhile.

Thanks,

Allan

[stogieman]

Ok!

Once the piece arrives, I'll post photos of this carton and another one I have (K&Q).