I threw common sense and caution to the wind, will these arrive?

@The Warrior, awesome! It's a great stove day for the two of us.

 

My sets arrived! The bad news, the boxes didn't survive very well, the good news is they somehow protected the contents, so I'm happy!

 

Nice, congrats!

 

Great news, good to see.

 

Thank you @The Warrior and @Marc

 

Amazingly fast!!! Very nice

 

That is a nice couple of sets. They do look pretty. The boxes aren't in too bad a condition.

 

Excellent!

 

Thank you all for following along and your comments. It was a risky purchase at first, but ultimately it turned out that I received the sets I wanted.

 

It's awesome that they arrived and arrived so quickly. Those are beautiful sets. I strongly suspected you would get them, but am still relieved that they arrived for you. Now we need action pics.

 

Gulp, it's going to be hard to fire one of these sets up. But if I do, I'll post the action pic in this thread.

 

As soon as you use it, you lose the value of the rare unused red Trangia.
Just burn a couple hundred dollar bills.

 

Decisions, decisions.

 

@lisantica ,

I am SO glad to see that your possibly risky purchase, turned out wonderfully! Honestly, I pretty much thought you'd wasted your money, and would not receive what you were trying to buy! I'm very happy to know that I was dead wrong on that!! So, well done, and enjoy your red Trangia kits! We use ours, and love them!! Hearty congrats on scoring what you were wanting!! Take care, and God Bless!

Every Good Wish,
Doc

 

Thank you @Doc Mark I didn't go forward with the purchase at first because they wanted Western Union up front and for me to arrange shipping, I was thinking, no way!
But after some emails back and forth and a confirmation that they had the items and they offered to assist with shipping, I went forward. They are a business in Lebanon, I verified the business through Facebook and through Google maps, seeing the store at street level.
Not the way I prefer to purchase items and this time it worked out.
On a different, yet similar topic, I did buy a lantern recently from a guy in the US and it has never arrived.

 

Congrats.
Who sold you the lantern, a couple bad characters outed on the Coleman forum.
Duane

 

>>Gulp, it's going to be hard to fire one of these sets up.

That's understandable with what you went through searching for them, not to mention the stress of wondering if you would even get them. They sure are pretty and you can always pose a set for us.

 

@hikerduane it was on a different forum, not the Coleman. Just a little candle lantern w/oil insert. Says it was delivered, but it wasn't (I was home the day it supposedly arrived and collected the mail after the postman left), so more of a post office issue I imagine.

@Jim Lukowski definitely a pose shot can be accommodated.

 

Some shots of the Anniversary edition. I know the fry pan doesn't sit as I have it posed, just showing the red part.