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LakesammmanLakesammman Posts: 17,453 ✭✭✭✭✭
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This might be the ultimate plastic collectible - all plastic, no coin! :lol:

Said to be a prototype rejected by PCGS for obvious reasons! Much prefer the OG boxes.

"My friends who see my collection sometimes ask what something costs. I tell them and they are in awe at my stupidity." (Baccaruda, 12/03).I find it hard to believe that he (Trump) rushed to some hotel to meet girls of loose morals, although ours are undoubtedly the best in the world. (Putin 1/17) Gone but not forgotten. IGWT, Speedy, Bear, BigE, HokieFore, John Burns, Russ, TahoeDale, Dahlonega, Astrorat, Stewart Blay, Oldhoopster, Broadstruck, Ricko, Big Moose, Cardinal.

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  • LindeDadLindeDad Posts: 18,766 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Soup that color don't go good around here either.

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  • MICHAELDIXONMICHAELDIXON Posts: 6,571 ✭✭✭✭✭

    I have never seen that color box!

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  • astroratastrorat Posts: 9,221 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Very cool, Lakes.

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  • fivecentsfivecents Posts: 11,207 ✭✭✭✭✭

    It's an OGB!

  • LakesammmanLakesammman Posts: 17,453 ✭✭✭✭✭

    When I got it, the side walls were collapsing in.

    Filled it with hot water from the insta-hot tap and gradually moved them back to parallel, then splinted it with the slabs. Seems to be holding.

    "My friends who see my collection sometimes ask what something costs. I tell them and they are in awe at my stupidity." (Baccaruda, 12/03).I find it hard to believe that he (Trump) rushed to some hotel to meet girls of loose morals, although ours are undoubtedly the best in the world. (Putin 1/17) Gone but not forgotten. IGWT, Speedy, Bear, BigE, HokieFore, John Burns, Russ, TahoeDale, Dahlonega, Astrorat, Stewart Blay, Oldhoopster, Broadstruck, Ricko, Big Moose, Cardinal.
  • BStrauss3BStrauss3 Posts: 3,677 ✭✭✭✭✭

    That's the incredibly rare PCGS Green Box, only used for a very short period to return early american coppers suffering from verdigris.

    No, but it sounds good.

    COOL!

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  • jwittenjwitten Posts: 5,230 ✭✭✭✭✭

    As a Mopar fan, I like it! Matches their sublime green cars.

  • ms70ms70 Posts: 13,956 ✭✭✭✭✭

    That's pretty cool!

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  • SwampboySwampboy Posts: 13,099 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Doctored back to serviceable condition.
    Now that's provenance!
    ☺

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  • DRUNNERDRUNNER Posts: 3,897 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Very cool history!

  • LanceNewmanOCCLanceNewmanOCC Posts: 19,999 ✭✭✭✭✭

    .
    note to self;

    self, find a neat doily, contact LSM, get that box !
    .

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  • rickoricko Posts: 98,724 ✭✭✭✭✭

    I like that box....Green is a good color..... wish they still had them, I would buy several.... Cheers, RickO

  • ashelandasheland Posts: 23,706 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Cool!
    Speaking of boxes, does anyone know what the boxes looked like that Doilys would have been sent in?

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  • keetskeets Posts: 25,351 ✭✭✭✭✭

    that looks to be the same shade of green as the inner slab gasket that sometimes changes, photo-reactive I would guess. maybe this is from the same type of thing.

  • bolivarshagnastybolivarshagnasty Posts: 7,352 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @jwitten said:
    As a Mopar fan, I like it! Matches their sublime green cars.

    Was thinking the same thing when I checked in on the thread this morning.

  • CaptHenwayCaptHenway Posts: 32,695 ✭✭✭✭✭

    "...and it's good to touch, the green, green slabs, of home!"

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  • COCollectorCOCollector Posts: 1,345 ✭✭✭✭✭

    A limited-edition "retro green" box would've been nice for the 30th anniversary:

    Or how about a "CAC green" box for PCGS beanie slabs?

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  • oih82w8oih82w8 Posts: 12,548 ✭✭✭✭✭

    I like the color myself, it may just fluoresce under a black light, or glow in the dark by itself.

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  • DrPeteDrPete Posts: 1,497 ✭✭✭

    I hope that it isn't a cheap Chinese fake! I like it though.

    Dr. Pete
  • DrPeteDrPete Posts: 1,497 ✭✭✭

    My daughter would definitely love a pink one. Perhaps someone should suggest color options to Mr. Don Willis.

    Dr. Pete
  • KccoinKccoin Posts: 1,086 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Nice box :o

    Good thinking in getting it back to working order. Would be neat filled up with OGH's.

  • AuroraBorealisAuroraBorealis Posts: 3,591 ✭✭✭✭✭

    I want one!!!!!!!!!!! :) Those Doilies will go well in that baby Lakes!!!!

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  • Desert MoonDesert Moon Posts: 5,986 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Forget the box, I would take the pegmatite countertop of Lakesammman!

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  • SeattleSlammerSeattleSlammer Posts: 10,048 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Pretty close.

    Nice Bug!.....I was just a baby.... :mrgreen:

  • coinkatcoinkat Posts: 23,815 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Never seen that before... I like it. Has that late 60's early 70's influence. Peter Max would be pleased.

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  • illini420illini420 Posts: 11,466 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @Lakesammman said:
    When I got it, the side walls were collapsing in.

    Filled it with hot water from the insta-hot tap and gradually moved them back to parallel, then splinted it with the slabs. Seems to be holding.

    Saw this at one of the Long Beach shows a year or two ago when the sides were folded in... glad you got it back into shape!

    :+1:

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  • rheddenrhedden Posts: 6,632 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited December 31, 2016 4:38PM

    I once worked with a company that developed a patented method to infuse colored dyes into all sort of plastics (after they are processed into their final shape). The patents have since been sold to another company. It just occurred to me that one could probably change the standard colors of PCGS boxes to all sorts of funky hues by infusing a second dye on top of the original. Should I run off to the lab and make some purple PCGS boxes, or would I be shunned as the forum's first Box Doctor? :*

  • LakesammmanLakesammman Posts: 17,453 ✭✭✭✭✭

    would I be shunned as the forum's first Box Doctor? :

    :lol:

    Make the top and bottom NFL colors - I think you're on to something!

    "My friends who see my collection sometimes ask what something costs. I tell them and they are in awe at my stupidity." (Baccaruda, 12/03).I find it hard to believe that he (Trump) rushed to some hotel to meet girls of loose morals, although ours are undoubtedly the best in the world. (Putin 1/17) Gone but not forgotten. IGWT, Speedy, Bear, BigE, HokieFore, John Burns, Russ, TahoeDale, Dahlonega, Astrorat, Stewart Blay, Oldhoopster, Broadstruck, Ricko, Big Moose, Cardinal.

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