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Old 15-07-21, 08:12
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I just heard that Rod Bellars in Ozz has died today 15/7/21 at age only 60. I'm not sure when he last visited this site but I know he was well known by many.

His continual working on heavy armoured vehicles and artillery pieces in shorts and flip flops, could not be conducive to healthy living.

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Old 15-07-21, 12:59
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Hello Ron,

Sorry to hear that. Thanks for letting us know, I have changed his account to reflect this sad fact.

BTW, he hadn't been active on this Forum since September 2016.
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Old 21-07-21, 02:40
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It was stage 4 GBM brain cancer. Was stage 3 when they found out about it and did one surgery to slow the growth down but prognosis was terminal from the start.

His wife Amy who lives in Singapore has Lloyds out of Melbourne taking the collection so it will probably be awhile before you start seeing aspects of it up for sale since its five large sheds to sort and catalog. Not to mention them having to figure out what everything is.

Rod and I had been trading partners since we brought in the first container from him back in January 2000 and we received literally tons of his collection purchases in Texas to forward back every other year. You'd be amazed at the stuff we'd accumulate to export back to him.

He'll be sadly missed and was a wealth of information to those that really knew him.
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Old 15-08-21, 05:19
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With Rod's passing, I asked Amy what her plans are. Well, looks like LLoyds Auctions have the job and already a lot of the bigger items have been moved to their premises. No idea yet as to when the auction will take place, but it will be interesting.

Cheers Rick.
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Old 20-11-21, 20:40
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Looks like a lot of Trophy guns awaiting their Fate, are they in a secured lockup though? Cheers Andrew.
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Old 20-11-21, 23:39
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Looks like a lot of Trophy guns awaiting their Fate,.....
Where did that Pic com from? Have they listed an auction yet?
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Old 10-02-22, 22:26
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Amazing amount of WW 11 equipment up for sale at 12 different auction postings from private collector, Lloyds Auction site, between Feb 19th and 25.

Bofors MK 4 current bid $14,000, Bofors Mk 11, $3900.00, Limbers Mk 1 maybe early 1941, bid $1000.00
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Old 10-02-22, 22:33
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This was discussed in another thread. Shipping for even small parcels out of Australia can be crazy, never mind the export requirements for military goods.
For the large stuff, it should be a great auction for those who are in Australia, although the auction house has now posted some warnings that proper licenses are required to take possession of some of the items.

If this were in Canada, my bank account would be depleted and my credit maxed.
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Old 19-02-22, 05:59
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With the auction now in progress, I am overall impressed with the prices realized by the auction house. Seems like many bidders like to do the sniping thing, although I wish they would not be going up by $10 once they trip the 21 second countdown clock. The extra time really ads up.



Also interesting to see things which I have purchased over the past years for my 25 pounders usually going for significantly more. And the available limbers in auction no 2 are now starting to realize more respectable prices. Heck, the 16 drawers in the limbers will usually fetch about what most of the limbers are currently at, so it will be interesting to see the closing prices.
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