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The weekend the other local collector who lived in this area sold up their collection.It was summer 1998.We're talking around 600 ponies in total, probably, which were sold on and off over several weeks at the carboot sale. Plus boxes of accessories, ponywear, etc. Some MIP as well.I don't know how many ponies Naynie and I obtained from there, but I do remember that we got a bunch on the day at the carboot sale, then went over to their home after to buy more...then ended up finding others over the next few weeks.Some of the highlights - Sand Dollar and Night Glider (not sold in the UK). Baby Gusty. All 3 jewellery babies. 3 or 4 Macau ponies, several Italian ponies, 5/6 windy wing ponies...Plus we picked up duplicates of a lot of European release ponies from them which we traded for ponies overseas. All the mountain boys, and a whole lot of others. In those days UK ponies were especially sought after and expensive, so thanks to that haul we filled in a lot of our mail order pony gaps.Ponies were £1 or 50p each. I remember also a whole plastic tub of accessories for £10 which contained most ponywear, all 6 dragons, wands, hats for princesses, most hats and bandanas for big brothers, brushes and combs, newborn twin accessories and other bits and pieces.In terms of trading, the best trade we ever did was with our first trade partner, who remains a beloved memory to us all since she and her family were lovely. They came over in Spring 1998 and brought a bunch of ponies. I think we traded about 98 ponies in total each - we'd been hoarding them from the carboot till their visit and that was the first time my sister and I saw ponies like Medley or Powder or FLutterbye. We'd never even seen photos since pics online were mostly just insert art. It was a magical day and the trade partner even got to visit the carboot sale and take home some extra mountain boys from it xD.In terms of one individual purpose, obviously that's going to be Susie, at $21ish, given she's the only one known to exist That would probably have been around 1999 or 2000.I did do a trade for a yellow minty back before we knew anything about these, I was told it was a fakie and she didn't want it, she wanted a regular Minty. So I agreed to send her one and she sent me her fakie. Which turned out to be an Italian yellow minty with magenta hair. The world before many pictures online was a bit of a wild west in terms of trades like that.
the cashier at a thrift store let me have Oakly for free