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Christie's Auction: July 1989: The Coluzzi Collection
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Matt
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Joined: 27/12/2009(UTC) Posts: 1,165 Location: Western Cape Cape Town
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Hi Matt - Lots of Bing stuff also in Count Coluzzi Collection - he went on to start his own company, Fulgurex......amazing....
tx, Joe
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If anyone comes across it, I highly recommend the coffee table book about his collection. Simply jaw dropping... |
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 Joined: 14/12/2002(UTC) Posts: 800 Location: Newcastle NSW Australia
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Joe , where did you find that catalogue please .
I have the coffee table book from many many years ago , cost the earth when I was on a trainee wage , The FD almost killed me when she saw what it cost . We have had the pleasure to view the Count Coluzzi collection twice . He lived in a 6 story building in Lausanne & his collection was spread over 4 levels & he lived in one quarter of one floor . Not only did he have a collection of trains but also planes & cars & marine models .
In another part of the city he also kept a collection of larger cars including Mercedes , Rolls Royce , & a few other older European makes , We did not have the time to look at these part of his collection . I have seen some of his rail models at the Mendrisio museum after his estate had been settled .
Cheers Tom in Oz
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Joined: 09/04/2012(UTC) Posts: 1,343 Location: Southwest Ohio
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Matt
Era 3
DB lokos, coaches and freight cars from across Europe
But I do have the obligatory (six) SBB Krocs
ECoS 50200, all FX and MFX decoders replaced with ESU V4s, operated in DCC-RailCom+ with ABC brake control.
With the exception of the passenger wagens with Marklin current conducting couplers, all close couplers have been replaced with Roco 40397. |
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I really don't understand why these fabulous collections are not made for public viewing in a Toy Museum. Are there any really big toy museums on the East Coast of the US? There was a nice, not huge, but big enough one not far from where we lived in Sintra, Portugal that we loved to go and see. It closed due to lack of funding and low attendance. Boggles the mind how there can't be an interest in that, or that no museum curators along with corporate sponsors can get a decent toy museum going.... .... or am I wrong? Interesting and important comment at the end of this article http://www.nytimes.com/1...rains-not-just-toys.html"...The Count said that he is not selling all of his collection - which originally numbered thousands of trains. ''I must keep what I prefer,'' he said. ''I may sell a few more of my trains,'' he continued, adding that he thinks it is preferable for him to dispose of the trains rather than to leave the task to his family, ''who may not know how and where to sell everything."...... -Mark |
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Joined: 27/12/2009(UTC) Posts: 1,165 Location: Western Cape Cape Town
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Originally Posted by: Tom Jessop 
Joe , where did you find that catalogue please .
I have the coffee table book from many many years ago , cost the earth when I was on a trainee wage , The FD almost killed me when she saw what it cost . We have had the pleasure to view the Count Coluzzi collection twice . He lived in a 6 story building in Lausanne & his collection was spread over 4 levels & he lived in one quarter of one floor . Not only did he have a collection of trains but also planes & cars & marine models .
In another part of the city he also kept a collection of larger cars including Mercedes , Rolls Royce , & a few other older European makes , We did not have the time to look at these part of his collection . I have seen some of his rail models at the Mendrisio museum after his estate had been settled .
Cheers Tom in Oz
Hi Tom - my son came across the catalogue a few months ago. He is the Bookstore manager for a local charity, and obviously someone donated it to the charity....he passed it on to me...I am gob smacked as to some of the prices!! ...amazing that you saw his collection!!!Joe
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Joined: 27/12/2009(UTC) Posts: 1,165 Location: Western Cape Cape Town
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Originally Posted by: Tom Jessop
Joe , where did you find that catalogue please .
I have the coffee table book from many many years ago , cost the earth when I was on a trainee wage , The FD almost killed me when she saw what it cost . We have had the pleasure to view the Count Coluzzi collection twice . He lived in a 6 story building in Lausanne & his collection was spread over 4 levels & he lived in one quarter of one floor . Not only did he have a collection of trains but also planes & cars & marine models .
In another part of the city he also kept a collection of larger cars including Mercedes , Rolls Royce , & a few other older European makes , We did not have the time to look at these part of his collection . I have seen some of his rail models at the Mendrisio museum after his estate had been settled .
Cheers Tom in Oz
...the catalogue was actually donated to CAFDA Charity by the City of Cape Town Library....the front & back covers.....  
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Joined: 14/12/2002(UTC) Posts: 800 Location: Newcastle NSW Australia
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We hadn't organised anything , we were doing our first European motor home holiday in 1998/99 & stayed overnight at a camping area just outside of Lausanne & I remembered there was some one somewhere in Switzerland who was connected with Fulgurex in either Lausanne or Lucerne . I had brought his book back in 1983 [1st edition 1982] & hadn't paid much attention to things like this before we departed Oz . We found a tourist info shop on the waterfront & went in to see what touristy things were nearby. I then remembered that there may have been a faint hope that we could have been in the same city so asked if they had heard of a model train museum in Lausanne . No was the answer so I asked for the local phone book to check if Fulgurex name was listed . Yep it was there in bold print , so the counter staff rang the number [this being Saturday midday ] & a male answered the call , things were explained & we receive a invitation to his Chateau on the Avenue De Rumine overlooking the better parts of the city for late Sunday afternoon . We spent a good 4 hours there looking at his collection & had to scrape our jaws off the floor when finished .
We corresponded & received Christmas cards from him until his death about 2005 . A lovely man to meet & to be allowed to see his prized possessions without any sort of security check is something to remember .
Cheers Tom in Oz
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Originally Posted by: Joe Meiring Quite wonderful!! He appeared in the special one-off 1984 Jubilee English edition of the Marklin Magazine. The man himself...  |
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