Help! I Found an old Duncan yoyo - anyone know what kind it is?

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Hi,
I found this yoyo at the second hand shop, and it looked interesting,

does anyone here know what kind it is and how old it may be?

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Thanks

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That might be an import one from the European molds so mid to late eighties possibly , really cool find. Any other stamps on the packaging. Throw Duncan @bjardin

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Thanks,!

here are no other markings on the box or on the yoyo.

cost me $4.00

It has some nice weight to it as well, seems very nice quality, and nice condition…

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If its heavy than its more likely an European mold, that’s a great score as it looks to be in mint condition. These are great players.

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I’m always looking and haven’t come across anything yet. Nice find!!

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Thanks!,

I was lucky to spot it, it was in plastic bag on a shelf and in its box, I only just caught the word yoyo, and it looked old so I took a punt. seems to be a butterfly style, but I can not see any similar when i search google…

the box is really neat as well, a nice touch

still, it sits nicely with my Moose silver bullet 6000, and my Russell coke yoyo’s

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some more shots, hoping someone can give me some more info on this. I can’t find anything similar in my searching…

I can’t even seem to find others with a box. ?

Thanks :slight_smile:

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Is there any writing on the bottom of that container? Like a date, maybe?

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unfortunately no, bottom is blank… I cant seem to see any other markings anywhere.

thanks

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already answered in the the appraisal thread no ?

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there is a quick mention of them, i did see, calls them German dinosaur? but I don’t know if the Yo-Yo in the box is the same as what I have.

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yeah there is not much to go on, you are right. my bad
id follow their advice and reach to doc lucky. collector and historian with decades of info.

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I was thinking the same. Hit up lucky. Maybe this is in his collection book. I have the book, i’ll take a look tonight.

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Thanks, that would be awesome… :slight_smile:

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I have a bunch of these, I should try and upload a picture if I can remember when I’m home.

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I think I have a blue one as well… :thinking:

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They’re indeed European butterflies. 90s not 80s, made to look retro. Used an original duncan mould but a different type of plastic. They were made by the or commissioned by the at that time Duncan importer in the UK. I tried to find out who actually made them, where they were distributed to and sold etc but never got far.

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I also don’t know which versions there are but they play really good. The down side is that the graphics are stickers so if you would indeed play them a lot they’d probably start looking bad fast :confused: I still need to find a double so I can keep one good and play the heck out of the other. Some are cheap 4$ sounds like an incredibly lucky find, some are sold as rare vintage collectors items :person_facepalming:

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@SethP has some, he probably knows a little.