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Wow!  What a great find Thomas.

My only Flea Market engine was found by my wife and it is also my first engine.  A Weeden 702. She gave it to me for Christmas in 2016.

She sure regrets that find! 🤠

300+ engines and accessories later.

Charlie, my wife and me met, as planned before, in the "Zwiebelfisch"-pub just around the corner from where I found the engine that day. When I told her that I had found something extraordinary and she saw the crate she thought it was some bottles of old wine or I had booked a table in a fancy restaurant (nothing to do with the crate) and well, yes, she was a bit disappointed when I showed her - just another steam engine.

But she managed to listen patiently (and smiling) to my story - when my telephone rang. It was the man in whose shop/workshop I had bought the engine. When I left, I had jokingly given him my number with the words "if you find the original drive bands of that engine...". Now he phoned me to say that this had somehow rang a bell and he had unearthed meanwhile a small box containing: a water reservoir for the feeder pump, a measuring cup, a desiccated piece of rubber hose for the pump, an old drive belt, a funnel and a small hook with a handle and a small piece of wick (to lighten the burner and open the fire door), all original Doll items. If I wanted to have them, I would just have to collect them...
My wife agreed to have an eye on the crate (yes, of course I ordered another glass of the bubbly stuff before I left) and I fetched the items.
Nice day. And we also found a good restaurant later...