PhillyChris posted:
One drink ain’t enough, Jack.. you’d better make it three!
After a month stuck in customs, I finally have my three period Marklin tank cars with custom repaint representing a very rare US export paint scheme (early 1900s). Creation by Wolfgang Bauer, Leipzig Germany.
Did customs nick you for anything, or were they just slow?
Reminds me of a story... Stayed at a B&B in Wales a few years ago and learned that the owner was a big Triang collector, so we had some fun discussions and he even loaned me a couple of books while I was there. (Unfortunately, all of his stuff was boxed in the attic.) He said that another train collector guest from the US sent him a box of toy train stuff after visiting. On the customs form, the sender wrote "train parts". Apparently, the UK customs folks thought they were real train parts, and slapped a steep duty on them which was almost equal to the value of the toy trains inside the box. The moral of the story is that they're TOYS.
