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    Posted: 30 June 2015 at 23:50
Further to a thread elsewhere, discussing the rarity of the Discworld Blue Triangle 'Sport' variation stamp (which hopefully someone might post up a picture of here as I don't have one myself) ...

List here your most sought-after collectable (I don't think this should be limited to stamps so Admin please move elsewhere if you think appropriate....

You never know, someone might find one day and point you in the right direction!
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My (current) most-sought-after item is a mint, signed first edition hardback of 'Mimus' by Lilli Thal.

Not for me but for my son.



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Hi Adam,
(link removed as better photo now on thread)
I'm still looking for a Bath perforated Green Tower of Art Falling Man 1 sport, (and the Penny Patrician Civic sport). I know there were 100 civic sports, but I suspect very few Bath perforated TOA sports were ever released... And yes, I'd love to get a triangle sport, but I'm realistic enough to know that I have as much chance as anyone else... 
If there's one easy lesson, it's that your chances of finding a rarity depend on the number of LBE's you buy. 

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I think there will be a few people here who will be able to supply a photo of a REAL BT Sport and not a faked photoshop one  Wink

Not that they might own one, necessarily, but they may have been in the right place at the right time to take photos.


My 'Holy Grail' collectable - the Clarecraft Discworld 'Cheery Littlebottom' figure already mentioned in the 'Blue Triangle value' thread under Cinderella Stamps'. 

Here she is, the elusive littlle minx...



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Delving into my images directories I found this photo of an actual BTS. Definitely not photoshopped

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As for Holy Grails, my current obsession is photographing wild orchids. Last weekend I was down in South Wales crossing miles of sand dunes in driving rain to find the Fen Orchid. This is the only UK site outside Norfolk for this species and only one for this subspecies. We eventually found 14 in flower. It is about 3-4 inches tall.

But this is not my Holy Grail.
The Red Helleborine has very exacting requirements. Not too little, not to much sunlight, in ancient woodland on calcareous soil. It grows in three protected sites in Gloucershire, Hampshire, and the Chilterns. Visitors to the sites are not encouraged. This is the protection around the Gloucestershire site. You need powerful binoculars and a shed load of luck to penetrate the undergrowth to find it in flower. I think there was just one last year.

This isn't my Holy Grail either. That title must belong to the Ghost Orchid (Epipogium aphyllum). Entirely saphrophytic it lives underground apart from the rare occasions when it flowers. It was seen in Herefordshire in 1854, and then in 1876 and 1910. Oxfordshire records include sightings in 1924, 1931 and 1963. In the Chilterns in 1953 25 flowers were found and up to 1987 there were over 20 years when sightings were made there. That was it until 2009 when it made an appearance in Herefordshire again - 2 decades without a sighting. Intensive searches each year since have found nothing.
BTSs eat your hearts out!
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Are there any photos or even decent illustrations of the Ghost Orchid Steve?  We could keep an eye out for it...  

I am sure I have stuff in the woods at the bottom of my garden that hasn't been interfered with since 1985!
I began this forum as a place to discuss and share ALL cinderella stamps. It is my first forum and is not perfect BUT I will endeavour to make it the best available.

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The Ghost Orchid. No leaves, nor chlorophyll.
Unless the bottom of your garden is beech forest, undisturbed since Tudor times, and lying on limestone, not Norfolk Crag or similar Pleistocene deposits, I think a search there will be fruitless.
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Perhaps someone else will be luckier?  What s the connection to Beech forest?

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Originally posted by Colin Colin wrote:

Perhaps someone else will be luckier?  What s the connection to Beech forest?


Light levels, soil moisture levels, soil fungi, the whole ecology of ancient woodland. It requires the presence of certain fungi in the tree roots to supply it with nutrients. It appaers to like to grow in deep leaf litter over bare soil, and no other competition.
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