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Has a Pear Tree numbered 10 and under ever been on EBay, I mean like a nine, two, and the one ???

Well, I don't know, but I do know #7 never has been on eBay and never will be.

oh, do you have number seven?

the lowest I've seen on EBay *found from the price quide* was 9

Who here has a low numbered Pear Tree Leaf?

Well I don't have one, but I just wanted to point out to you that it's called Pear Tree Leaves (plural). ;)

Oh, thanks for clearing that up ;)

Yes, I have #7 and it's never leaving the binder :) I'm terrified that one day I'll open the book and it'll be gone!

:)

LOL ;D I'm sure its just nerves

Ahhhhhhhhhh so that's  why I never get invited for tea ;)

On a slightly more serious note I know that number 4 belongs to someone else in the card manufacturing business, so I daresay the early ones didn't hit the mainstream

Oh Roz-  anytime you're in the right country just stop on by. I'm terrible at making tea, but you're still welcome to visit Chez Kohlbus :)

Wonderful - although to be fair, I'll make the tea - a good cup of tea has to be the bonus of having a Brit in your home ;)

Should I find myself in America and close by  I think I had best drop by and help counting some wrappers since I made some work for you myself recently ;)

Ugh  :P - I spent all weekend doing that. At least the weather was perfect, so I did it outside while the boys played!!

:)

It's a very good job you don't live anywhere windy - it is gorgeous here but it's pretty windy ;)

Does this mean Rittenhouse now owe you a new bottle of sun tan lotion ;) ?

A Pear Tree Card in Pennsylvania! I never would have thought it possible :P If I'm your way, I'll be knocking on the door to see it in person ;)

The only tea I know how to make is instant :P

 :o

I remember a while back an ebayer did an auction - it was for a tea set and the price included a visit from an English person to come and make tea for you in your own home. The catch? You had to pay their air fare.

Making your own tea is extremely easy - what's difficult is getting tea right for other people :) every one has their own way that they like it. It's also an acquired taste too, but once you have begun your lifetime of addiction a good cup of tea makes you feel so much better :P

I've never really tried making tea. My aunt boiled it once that was good. I've never really had anything British, I've had alot of Australian because we study'd that in the fourth grade. I hated that Vegimight stuff :P (no offence to anybody who does like it ;))

I suppose I like my tea sweet, but not citrus-y. Everyone around here wants to dump lemon in my tea *YUCK*

As for a tree card being in PA - yup, there are at least 2 in PA that I know of.

PG TIPS...is the BEST

If it's good enough for the monkeys,it's good enough for ME!!!! ;D ;D.

I'll let Roz explain this one ;) ;)

Ooh - no one talk to Popple!

This is another thing you will find - people use the brand of tea their mother's did and there's very little changing them. In a family where 2 people of different "tea makes" get married I think the woman usually wins. ;)

I think PG Tips (who in non-politically correct days) used to have monkeys dressed up in clothes supping tea for their advertising campaign are the most popular tea brand in Britain, it certainly seems that way. Now however PG tips adverts are great - they are done by Aardman animation (the guys who brought you Wallace and Gromit and the Chicken Run).

http://www.visit4info.com/details.cfm?adid=20828

I am a Typhoo girl myself :)

Oh I love PG and the and the Aardman birds are great ;D

I doubt PG Tips and Typhoo combined sell half as much as Tetley  :P

lol no PG tips is top

Do you know the Tea market in the UK is valued at £400million?

 :o

That's a lot of cups of tea. Must admit that I am not very keen on tea, I am a coffee girl myself but it has to have no milk or sugar.

On the question of PTL, do we know how many are lovingly owned by forum members. Happy to start this off by admitting that I own number 20.

Ewww, coffee without cream and suger :P

That's the way it should be. ;D  Coffee with cream and sugar, eeeeew yuk! :P

Well, everyone likes their coffee a different way :D

As a Southerner, I would say that sweet tea is the best. *Can I have a little tea in my sugar?*  I've never seen it in any restaraunt north of South Carolina.  My niegbor has a pear tree, anyone want me to send them a bag of leaves? ::)

Oooo, that would be cool. I LOVE sweet tea thats all I'll drink *with a little bit of lemon juice  :P*

I have # 28.

I almost bought another one.... ;D  But the crazy impulse left me. ::)

Really.  :o

Good decision not to do, you shouldn't buy all the rare cards on the market.  ;D

Yeah John, you need to leave me a Pear Tree Leaves to get for my collection. ;)

Yeah,   :)  that entered my mind, too. Wasn't that "alturistic" of me 8)  ;D

Who wants to try to collect something when all the good stuff is taken?  ???  :P

But as a follow on, I wonder who, if anyone, is kicking themselves for selling all their dups and their last one, too?  :'(   :'(   :'(

Now I'll wager they wish they had kept at least one.  :)

I was wondering what the leaves where made of. I've got millions of fake leaves with a wax coating. I could make my own ;)

Yes you could.

See if you can make one as good enough to beat  this interesting bit of HP card history:


http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&category=22727&item=5948054871

Dont think it would beat that but I could say to my self I have a Pear Tree Leaves card ;D

Done!!!

I have my very own Pear Tree Leaves Card ;)

Sorry John I'm missing why this is HP card history  :-\

I think because only 30 where made :P

lol I meant that particular auction  ::)

Oh, I was just replicating it :P

I asked John this same question and he responded:

Price/auction history---- only 4 months and the supply of PTLs seems to have completely dried up.

I guess they are all safely tucked away in collections.

 ;D that's odd, I was thinking we had recently had a drought but then MPC sold one and the collector zone has just sold one (to a lucky forum member).

According to the price guide on ebay alone 5 have been sold this year - and before mid January there hadn't been any on for 2 months.

I don't think Anna or Tower need panic JUST yet, but from what I hear another will be on ebay around the release of SS (so if you still need one save up your pennies).

I think I would need to save up more than pennies Roz. ::)

That's for sure!  Some of those cards have sold for more than my monthly mortgage. ::)

They've sold for almost 4 times my monthly mortgage! ::)

So what are you two? Card collectors or cowards? ;)

Who needs a roof over their head when they could shelter around a lovely Pear Tree Leaf  ;D

You know how many boxes...scratch that case I could by with almost 5 thousand dollars :o :o :o :o

Wow that just goes to show how lucky you guys have housing costs - even the highest peartree is only 2.5 times Mark's monthly RENT!!!

And only 3x mine and I only rent a ROOM! (and that's in College so in the UK that's known as "cheap" accommodation!)

that card is 6 times over higher then our house rent :o :o :o :o :o :o

Hmm...how about a cowardly card collector? ;D


I don't know, Roz.  I don't feel so "lucky" when I write out that check every month!

I don't know, Roz.  I don't feel so "lucky" when I write out that check every month!

How about doing a "house swap" ;)

He hee - lol neither Mark or I have the demands of children on our incomes so maybe we should  feel "lucky" about that :)

It's amazing how much kids cost!  And I'm not talking about toy purchases, either.  Mine will be going to college in 13 years, and I'm panicking all ready!

All this talk makes me want to never be a dad :P

Kids are expensive, but I didn't say that they weren't worth it! ;)

Well, I dont consider myself expensive to my mom. I earn my own money for my cards. But I would never spend over a thousand on one when I could use that money for other stuff beside cards

OOer!

I think I AM too young Mike ;)

And they are surely worth it - :D

Well, in a short period the cards seem to have disappeared. Only 4 months ago and less they were going at +/_ $2000.00. Where did they all go? I think they are hidden away in collections. You have two, don't you?

Here's the next one.  :)

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=6173926973&fromMakeTrack=true

But too expensive for me. Maybe i shouldn't have sold my variant on 1st of April.  ;D

yeah that's Chris'

He's working on the picture as that's AWFUL :P I have told him to get a new scanner when he has sold this ;)

If he likes, i could scan the card for him. He would only have to ...  ;D

This card # 23 is the first card on the price list that sold for a whopping $499.00 the first time.  :o
Brilliant profit.  8)

I remember those times - when PoA boxes were selling for $55 BIN and I got booted off the Topps LOTR board for asking what people thought about this new-fangled Harry Potter set that had just come out.

Ah, the good old days 8)

Anyone want to loan me $2500? ;)

Oh, and me too ;D

No.9 is up again on ebay.And this time,a leaf without a reserve  :o

what does this mean :-\

Did you actually get booted off?  :o Thats a bit harsh...

Thats stupid. Your just asking ::)

It is a secret price,in this case with Ebay which is the minimum the seller will let the card go for.When you bid,you could be the highest bidder,but you are told you have not met the reserve price.Hope that helps.

OK - it wasn't booted off (I like exaggerating) but the thread mysteriously disapppeared without warning one day. Luckily Roz had saved the thread info in her notepad and we got so disgruntled with the Topps restrictions (understandable as a company policy of course, but we wnated somewhere to discuss these cards and other thing non-Topps related) that Roz strong-armed Mark into letting us squat here and make a temporary home. We managed to attract some members from the Topps board as well as some by word of mouth and Ebay etc.

And here we are over a year later! 8)

Marks squatting problem has got worse :-\

I remember when the thread disappeared, and so did a lot of people, so I followed everyone over  ;D

Here's a link, and check out his other auctions too.  A really great Bon-Bons card. Choc. frog, Lik-o-rish spider, 1st set pink Hermione top.
Opps, here's the link. http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&category=73570&item=6176664708&rd=1

I like the bit about 'small collection' - if those are the cards that they have:
1. I would not say ANYTHING about small
2. I don't wodner why she doesn't have anymore - what fantastic variants! I love the Bonbon one especially!

It is a secret price,in this case with Ebay which is the minimum the seller will let the card go for.When you bid,you could be the highest bidder,but you are told you have not met the reserve price.Hope that helps.

Yeah it does

 I like the Black Pepper Imps. I think, i'll try to get this one.  ::)

I like the George Quidditch Varient, Hermione Top, and Chocoalate Frog Varient cards from this seller

I actually found the shack while looking for dealers to buy POA from, it came up under Harry Potter Trading Cards I think >:()

Just had to use on of the new smilies :ebay: oops another..fun fun

I found the shack while looking for Harry Potter trading cards to buy. Luck I found it ;)

Well slap my thigh and call me Bernard !!! Tower is interested  ::) Hands up all surprised members  ;D

Alright Bernie.

For the moment I'm looking forward to SS rather than backward, but there are a couple of holes in my collection I'd like to fill from the beginning, not many but some :)

LOL.  ;D  ;D  ;D  Or should i use the new smiley?  >:()  ;)

Isn't it odd how history gets blurred in the telling ;)

I did no such thing :P I thought it was a bit dicy discussing it on the topps board and I set up the shack as our temporary home, assuming we would collect PoA and then give up and go and live on a Kibbutz or something.

Anyway I PMed EVERYONE who had posted in that thread (apart from those who were saying "this is a LOTR board for heavens sake) telling them about the new place.

So I don't have a notepad record of what was said. Suffice it to say that it was all a mass of confusion because no one knew what was in the set. Because... surprise surprise Artbox hadn't released the info.

There were people on one board swearing black and blue that the Harry 100 robe card did not exist and our very own forum member Gimli had pulled one! He had to provide photographic evidence before anyone believed him ::)

You said you had a notepad of the info! How else did we have it?  ???

No I just did it directly from the Topps board before it was deleted ;)

Just in the nick of time

(Nick of Time? Johnny Depp movie - complete waste of your time, don't even bother watching it)