I recently built an Airfix SA330 Puma, which contained leaflets indicating that it had been sold from new in the USA even though the box art didn't give have any marking such as Airfix USA etc.
While cleaning the area around my bench just now I found this little till receipt which I think may have fallen out of the box...
It gives a name of G J's Hobby & Crafts and a sale date of 07.09.82. Unfortunately, this date does not give a clue to the date format being used so if itself does not suggest a US origin but the receipt appears to show a sales tax at 7% which has never been a VAT rate here in the UK.
Does anyone have any idea where this store/shop may have been?
GJ's Hobby & Crafts - Anyone know this store?
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"Never put off till tomorrow, what you can do the day after tomorrow"
Re: GJ's Hobby & Crafts - Anyone know this store?
A quick Google search showed a now defunct G Js hobby and craft in Endicott NY.
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Re: GJ's Hobby & Crafts - Anyone know this store?
That's what I found, but the entries I found were for J G's Hobbys rather than Hobby and Crafts... but that might not mean too much!
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If you can walk away from a landing, it's a good landing. If you use the airplane the next day, it's an outstanding landing
"Never put off till tomorrow, what you can do the day after tomorrow"
Jim
If you can walk away from a landing, it's a good landing. If you use the airplane the next day, it's an outstanding landing
"Never put off till tomorrow, what you can do the day after tomorrow"
Re: GJ's Hobby & Crafts - Anyone know this store?
Yeah, I'd thought that myself. Unfortunately nothing else showing up.
If it was the right place, based on the two addresses listed, it was in one or both of these locations:
It would be nice to track it down for definite.
If it was the right place, based on the two addresses listed, it was in one or both of these locations:
It would be nice to track it down for definite.
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Takom 1/35 M247 Sgt. York.
Takom 1/35 M247 Sgt. York.
Re: GJ's Hobby & Crafts - Anyone know this store?
A bit of further research and I don't think this was the place you're looking for. Seemed it was an RC model shop.
Ah well, it was fun looking it up. (How sad am I?)
Ah well, it was fun looking it up. (How sad am I?)
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Re: GJ's Hobby & Crafts - Anyone know this store?
Just because it was LATER termed GJ's Hobbies, and doesn't state Crafts, doesn't mean that it didn't sell crafts stuff in the past, and just because it ended as an RC shop doesn't preclude it from having sold model kits, either then or in the past.
I created a post on the UIPMS/USA forums in the hope of an answer, but don't hold your breath as is a rather moribund place...
I created a post on the UIPMS/USA forums in the hope of an answer, but don't hold your breath as is a rather moribund place...
Paul
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Thanks Paddy and Paul
It would be fun to know where the kit was sold, even more fun to find out how on earth it came to be back in the UK and sold on ebay!
It would be fun to know where the kit was sold, even more fun to find out how on earth it came to be back in the UK and sold on ebay!
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Jim
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"Never put off till tomorrow, what you can do the day after tomorrow"
Jim
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Up in the Great White North
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Re: GJ's Hobby & Crafts - Anyone know this store?
Thank Andrew, that certainly looks to be the business. I'm guessing that the address given has either been developed or was a registered office.
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Jim
If you can walk away from a landing, it's a good landing. If you use the airplane the next day, it's an outstanding landing
"Never put off till tomorrow, what you can do the day after tomorrow"
Jim
If you can walk away from a landing, it's a good landing. If you use the airplane the next day, it's an outstanding landing
"Never put off till tomorrow, what you can do the day after tomorrow"