Welcome Dea! Don't get too hung up on all the complexities in some of these posts, especially Tim's!

Tim, I followed your parts 1 and 2 but 3???

Check out the HL chat tonight and you'll see a complete change in their personalities!

Seriously, there's a lot of interesting stuff here and everyone's very friendly.

Have been thinking that maybe the best method for new collectors like us is to forget about buying the already retireds and concentrate on buying the newer pieces as they will, of course, retire also. Then we can compare the worth of our collecions with Tim's Part 53???

Under the "What to do for this Christmas" thread there was discussion on "re-makes", whatever, of existing LE's. Don't think this should be done. Just move on to some of the rest of the lighthouses. Their impact,history, can be every bit as interesting as the "famous" lighthouses that have been produced to date. To own a model of them would be unique.