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Good fangs at BTA
A
boxed limited
e d i t i o n
1/4 scale
collectable
figure of The Vampyre,
based on Count Orlok
(Max Screck) from F.W.
Murnau's classic horror
film, Nosferatu, was
a more unusual lot in
the recent British Toy
Auction sale. However,
it seemed that several
people were keen on
this slice of gothic
fiction, and it made £190
plus buyer’s premium.
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Morphy woos Barbie
M
orphy’s last
t w o - d a y
auction did
well, despite
it being the holiday season.
With the blockbuster
Margot Robbie/Ryan
Gosling movie packing
cinemas worldwide, this
has been the summer
of Barbie - and that
has also included the
toy collecting world.
Morphy’s August sale
featured a 1959 first-
issue brunette #1 Barbie
Doll with its original box,
stand and complete set
of accessories. Harder
to find than her blonde
counterpart, the early
brunette doll in excellent
condition was bid to
US$10,455 against an
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A boxed Dinky Guy
Van, with the first type
cab and fitted with
grooved hubs, was
certainly not mint (the
model exhibited some
degree of small chipping)
but carried the iconic
Weetabix livery and was
bid to £230. A boxed
Foden Flat Truck, in the
very rare colour scheme
of yellow cab and chassis
with mid green back and
wheel hubs, raised £420.
Another Foden Flat Truck
with tailboard with an
Above right: Whoever said that blondes have more fun? The brunette Barbie is much more sought
after. Above left: Stunning refuelling space station was complete and came with its original box.
estimate of US$6,000-
7,000.
The top seller, though,
was an extremely
rare, unopened 1976
Topps football rack box
containing 24 pristine
packs of trading cards. The
SOLIDO ASTON MARTIN DB5 1964 - GREEN
Price: £55.99 Scale: 1/18 Release: out now
collection. Get yours before you miss the chance.
orange body and with headed and
green wheel hubs and hard hands, was
grey tyres made £440. in excellent
Elsewhere, a boxed condition. Dating
Universal Hobbies for from 1964, it sold
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blue with red jibs found
favour amongst
the heavy plant
contingent and Above: Fangs for the
made £180. memory? Surprise seller
Lastly, a at BTA was this 1/4 scale
vintage boxed vampire figure.
Palitoy Action
Left: Trusty Dinky
Man 'Action Weetabix vans still deliver
Soldier' with the goods (in this case
painted brown cereal).
Refuel Station marked
“Waco Made in Japan.”
An elusive toy, especially
when complete with its
original satellite, jet plane
and rocket accessories, it
even retained its original
pictorial factory box. The
toy was finally knocked
down for US$11,070.
An EJ Model Jumeau
French Bebe also
impressed on auction
day. The 24 inch tall
curly-locked bisque-
headed blonde retained
packs featured images of front, a Stevens Elephant her original fully-
star athletes of the period, and Three Clowns bank, jointed French wood and
including Fran Tarkenton, with rich original paint, composition body, and a
Terry Bradshaw, Franco dated from 1882 and sold stamp on the back of the
Harris, Bubba Smith, Mel for US$13,530. torso reading JUMEAU
Blount and many others. Sci-fi fans had their MEDAILLE D’OR PARIS.
They realised US$24,600. eyes on the battery- The winning bid was
On the cast iron toy bank operated tinplate Space US$11,685. ■
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Price: £90.00 Scale: 1/43 Release: out now
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format, fitted with
a modern three-rail collection continues to knocked down for £900.
mechanism, it made be sold off: a Mattel Hot There was plenty
£3,920. Close on its (w) Wheels Custom Beetle for the Star Wars fan
heels was a Bassett- in dark metallic aqua (the Boba Fett 1:1 scale
Lowke Caledonian but without a sunroof, EE-3 Blaster Rifle, one
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in 4-4-0 configuration: while his Models of attracting a top bid of
again modified for Yesteryear Y7 Jacobs £2,327); but Britains
three rail use (but biscuit van in brown and lead still holds sway, a
with the original wheel cream with knobbly black facsimile-boxed set of
assemblies), it was bid plastic wheels was a rare the 16th Lancers with
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year as BBC2 began
broadcasting, which
was seen by some as
a rather more cultured viewing
platform.
It was a year of contrasts, too,
though, with apartheid very much
in the headlines: across the Pond,
Martin Luther King was awarded
the Nobel Peace Prize yet in South
Africa, Nelson Mandela was jailed
for life. Three civil rights workers
were murdered in Mississippi,
prompting the President to sign
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although this did not stop the
violence, which continued in
many American cities.
Nature was in the news. The
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ABOVE
Answer: 1964
No, not Fidel Castro. This was GI
Joe, who introduced the concept
of dolls to small boys.
the year?
Alwyn Brice invites you to rummage
through the grey matter.
coldest temperature registered
in the northern hemisphere
not within the arctic regions. A
temperature of minus 71 degrees
celsius was logged in January
in the village of Oymyakon, in
Eastern Siberia. Further south,
the Italian government asked for
help this year to keep the Leaning
Tower of Pisa from falling over.
Science and technology also
prevailed; the Smithsonian
Institution’s Museum of History
and Technology opened to the
public in Washington, D.C. and
the first electronic ticket barriers
and unmanned trains were seen
on the London Underground. The
existence of Quarks (elementary
particles, for those of you who
didn’t take Physics) was also
first mooted, while Lockheed’s
fabulous SR-71, or Blackbird,
a 2,000 mph aircraft, made its
public debut.
As for popular culture, a new
ABOVE
Beatlemania ruled – everyone
loved them.
phenomenon was sweeping across
Britain; ‘Beatlemania’ was the
expression coined in the wake
of the hysteria generated when
crowds were in close proximity to
the Fab Four. This same year, The
Beatles’ not-so-clean-cut rivals, the
Rolling Stones released their first
album. But they had their work
to do, for The Beatles dominated
the hit parade, with single after
single outselling everything else.
The year also saw the first MOOG
synthesiser developed by Robert
Moog: pop music would never be
the same again.
In terms of sport, Cassius
Clay beat Sonny Liston to
take the World Heavyweight
Championship in boxing; while
the Brits were proud of Donald
Campbell, who captured the
world land (403.10mph) and
water (276.33 mph) speed records
in Australia.
Actor Keanu Reeves was
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retailing at just over 5p while a
litre of petrol was roughly the
same. And as for house prices,
their average was £3,350.
Toys seen in the shops in this
year included GI Joe, a brave
venture by the Hassenfeld
Brothers at targeting males with
what was essentially a doll; the
concept obviously worked, for
Action Man duly followed. Dinky
was busy with diecasts: the Vega
Major luxury coach, the Honest
John Missile Launcher and the
Triumph Vitesse all appeared
in the first couple of months
but Corgi’s impressive Simon
Snorkel Fire Engine outshone
these offerings. Lesney’s pale
mauve Rolls Royce Phantom also
appeared.
So, dear reader… what was the
year? CG
ABOVE
Matchbox’s Rolls Royce offering
in lilac (or was it mauve?)
must have made the car
manufacturer blush with shame.
LEFT
Dinky Vega coach was
extravagant transport – but did
you ever see the real thing?
❯❯ RAILWAY COLLECTABLES
Fifty shades
of maroon
W
hat about paint
eh? We have a
sort of love-hate
relationship
with the stuff.
It’s often the only thing standing
between glamour and squalor.
It’s become hideously expensive,
and when you’ve finished with it,
the leftovers are impossible to
dispose of. And there’s always
leftovers. Honestly, can you ever
claim to have finished a painting
job with the final tin empty?
It’s estimated that we are
currently hoarding 55 million
litres of unwanted paint in our
homes and garages. The council
won’t take it at the tip. When you
ask what you should do with it,
they get quite shifty, muttering
about licensed hazardous waste
disposal. One operative even
suggested it would be quite
helpful if I wouldn't mind painting
my paint onto some scrap wood
and throwing that away instead.
THE JOY OF PAINT
I dread to think what we did with
waste paint in the old days, when
there was one TV station which went
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Mark Nolan casts a critical eye over railway colours through
the BR period and calls out the good, the bad and the ugly...
off at 6pm, and milk was delivered
by electric vehicles (pah!) and the
trains were red or green.
Actually, to be accurate, a lot of
BR coaches were initially carmine
(a shade of crimson) to the waist,
then cream for the top half up to
the roof, which was smoke grey
because of the coal pollution,
regardless of its intended colour.
The carmine and cream livery
was dubbed ‘blood and custard’
and is still referred to as such
today. The two-tone scheme was
separated by a black and gold
lining between the panels. This
early 50s livery was popular but
short lived due to difficulties with
keeping the cream area clean.
As a result, from around 1956,
BR coaches changed colour to
an all over dark maroon, close
to a colour which had already
been successfully adopted by the
LMS before nationalisation. As
with the preceding carmine and
cream, the maroon was relieved
by a black and gold (later yellow)
lining along the side of the coach
at waist height. Main line coaches
also carried a round heraldic crest
in the centre of the vehicle, known
ABOVE
Bachmann BR Mk1 RFO Restaurant Car, Crimson & Cream,
weathered. This early 50s livery was popular but short lived
due to difficulties with keeping the cream panels clean.
as the lion and wheel emblem. pick it up, paint it.” Regardless,
There were regional variations. it was obvious to even the most
The Southern Region managed unobservant traveller that the
to retain a green livery close to trains didn't suit being covered
that espoused by its predecessor. in blue paint. No matter, it was
These coaches also featured a the first step
lion and wheel emblem, but did
not carry any lining. Not to be
outdone, the Western Region
painted some of their Mk1
coaches in two tone chocolate and
cream, similar to a Pullman style.
Consequently, trains in the 1960s
could look a bit haphazard with
mixed liveries. Throughout this
period, the disappearing steam
locos tended to be black or green,
and the diesels which replaced
them were mostly green,
TANGLED UP IN BLUE
So, life was simple, and the train
colours became even simpler one
fine day in 1965, when British Rail
acquired a job lot of blue paint,
and proceeded to cover all their
carriages and locos with it.
This could have been a
hangover from the links between
the railways and the armed forces.
“If it moves, salute it. If it doesn’t
move, pick it up. If you can’t
 IN-DEPTH

ABOVE
Lima Class 55 Deltic 9006 'Fife and Forfar Yeomanry' in BR Blue. Even the imposing
Deltic struggled to carry off the unrelieved monotony of British Rail blue.

ABOVE
Hornby Dublo 4075 BR maroon passenger brake van coach E81312. The maroon was
relieved by a black and gold (later yellow) lining along the side of the coach at waist
height. These Dublo coaches are tinplate so lack any moulding detail. However the
overall effect of the tin printing is highly evocative.

LEFT
Lima BR Mk1 brake 2nd 5104 in Western Region chocolate and cream livery. The ‘Great
Western’ lettering on the side is entirely fictional!

ABOVE
Hornby R2702 Class 43 HST pack in BR Intercity Swallow livery. Known variously as
Intercity, Swallow or Executive livery, this was one of the more popular colour schemes
in the late BR period and suited the 125s well.
BELOW
Heljan 4742 Class 47 diesel in BR blue with large logo. Wrapping the yellow front around
the sides and adding a giant BR logo made rail blue more palatable on the locos which
received what became known as the ‘large logo’ livery.
towards
signposting a
unified, rational rail
network. One of the first
examples of corporate branding
if you like; the difference being
the sheer size of the corporation.
LEFT Rail Blue, also known as
Ax
‘Monastral Blue’, was defined by
British Rail standards BR28/6001
(spray finish) and BR28/5321
(brush finish). It was a dark,
greyish blue tone which was able
to hide dirt quite well. As with the
previous maroon, the colour does
not always appear accurately in
photographs. There are multiple
reasons, ranging from the light
and the weather, to variations
in brands of colour film, and its
subsequent processing,
BR main line coaches in the
Rail Blue era were two-tone,
having a grey upper panel.
While never that popular at the
time, nostalgia means that this
colour scheme is regarded with
slightly more affection than it
was in its day. Rail blue was at its
worst when applied as a single
unrelieved colour to locos and
suburban rail stock.
PAINT JOBS
With trains being out and about
in all weathers, some colours can
age or fade unpredictably. Colours
also change if they are varnished
or polished. These days, you don’t
need an artisan with a paint brush
or a spraying setup. Varnish and
polish have been consigned to
history, apart from on heritage
railways. Modern trains are more
likely to have vinyls applied, and
peeled off again when the Train
Operating Company goes bust.
It’s critically important for
model manufacturers to get
colour right. You may forgive the
odd inaccuracy, but the wrong hue
can sink a model. Just to make it
harder, the correct colour doesn't
always necessarily scale down
faithfully. Of course when you
own and look at the models for
long enough, your brain adjusts
to make the colours ‘right’. If you
look at a model and say “Yes, that’s
how I remember it”, it’s job done.
Heritage railways face a similar
problem when restoring their
trains. Is the colour going to look
right? Not wanting to decry their
efforts, there have been some paint
jobs which look a bit 'enthusiastic’,
for want of a better word.
WHAT IS A LIVERY?
It’s interesting that we still refer
to train colours as 'liveries'.
The word itself derives from
the French ‘livrée’, meaning
dispensed, handed over. It’s a
quaint notion that the uniform,
or colour in regard to vehicles,
denotes ownership by a corporate
body, in this case the railway
company. Your car doesn't have
a livery, just a colour. However,
Formula 1 cars do have liveries.
Ditto buses and planes.
PRIVATISATION
Privatisation may have been a
disaster for the railways and
the travelling public, but it was
a fortunate lifeline for Hornby.
Instead of having one model in
maybe two liveries (ie green,
then blue), they found themselves
with an unexpected windfall. For
example, the 40 year old HSTs
have been used by at least ten
different TOCs, each keen to put
their own vinyls on its nose. At the
same time, advances in computer
aided design have made it easier
to chop and change models.
The early 80s saw the loosening
of the iron grip of BR blue as
the network was split up into
different sectors; principally
Intercity, Regional Railways,
London and the South East,
Scotrail and Railfreight. Look out
for a colourful follow-up where we
will check out the kaleidoscope of
colours and designs which were
unleashed by privatisation from
the late 1990s onwards. CG

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›› UNDER THE MICROSCOPE

Hong Kong
PART
1

Andrew Ralston looks at

plastic replicas produced in
the Far East.

uring the 1960s it was

copies
D common practice for
diecast toys, mostly
those by British
manufacturers, to be
copied in plastic by Hong Kong
toy makers. For years these
were sometimes dismissed
by collectors as cheap ‘rip-
offs’, while the value of the
original diecasts climbed on
the collecting market. Then
things changed. Over the last
ten or fifteen years, collectors
have woken up to the fact that
the survival rate of early plastic
toys is far lower than for their
diecast equivalents. As a result,
auction prices of plastic toys such
as Telsalda, Lucky Toys, Clifford
Series and others have risen
dramatically.
At the time these toys were
made, the Hong Kong toy of London was Frederick Levy ABOVE
industry did not operate in the and Company which was probably Close resemblance between the Dinky (left) and Blue Box (right) MG Midgets. Note, too,
same way as the British one. the first to take out British-made the similarity in box illustrations.
Generally, manufacturers would toy cars to show Hong Kong
BELOW
have a background in making manufacturers, commissioning It was not only diecasts that were copied by Hong Kong plastic makers.
cheap plastic fancy goods like them to make similar toys in This Ford Zodiac, marked ‘NFIC’, is probably inspired
ornaments or plastic flowers until plastic and placing bulk orders. by the plastic Airfix assembly kit.
they gradually specialised in These were sold under the name Photo: Vectis Auctions.
toys. Some were made in larger Clifford Toys.
factories but many others in But were these toys simply
small workshops and the makers copies of other companies’
often did not put their names designs? It was, in fact, quite
on their products. Instead, the unusual for a British diecast to
packaging would carry the name be an exact copy the same size as
of the importer and distributor, the original. This occurred most
which would often be UK-based. frequently with the Matchbox
Some of these importers had 1–75 series, especially the copies
been bringing in goods from the by a maker called Blue Box (these
Far East for many decades. One of Matchbox copies were covered
the best-known brands of plastic in an article in the February
toys, Telsalda, was a trademark of 2022 issue of Collectors Gazette).
L. D. Abraham Limited of London But Blue-Box happily borrowed
EC1, a company that started from other sources too. Their
trading in Far Eastern textiles in MG Midget, for example, is in
1890. Operating in the same area a similar scale to the Dinky on

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ABOVE
(Left) Clifford Bedford Refuse Wagon and (right) Telsalda Mobile Canteen, based
respectively on Dinky and Corgi models. Photo: Vectis Auctions.
ABOVE
Dinky Vega Major Luxury coach inspired several copies.
This one was distributed under the Clifford brand. Photo: Vectis Auctions.
ABOVE
Clifford Series Hillman Minx convertible
may have been inspired by a relatively
obscure 1/18th scale electric model by
Victory Industries. Photo: Vectis Auctions.
which it based – even the box
art work is the same.
However, rather than
aiming for exact copies, it was
more common for Hong Kong
makers to scale up the size of a
diecast original, partly to allow
more space inside to fit a friction
motor and partly, no doubt, to give
the impression that customers were
getting more for their money. It’s
true that some manufacturers such
ABOVE
Corgi-based Rover 90, sold in Woolworth’s stores under their ‘Woolbro’ trademark.
as Corgi tried friction mechanisms
in metal cars, but the lightness of a
plastic toy made it better suited to
such motive power, as it would run
for a longer distance.
There must be literally hundreds
of Hong Kong toys of this type
around and part of their fascination
is that new ones are always coming
to light. Dinky and Corgi Toys,
being so well-known, were an
obvious source of inspiration.
The Dinky Vega Major Luxury
Coach was a particular favourite
and several different Hong Kong
makers had a go at it, copying each
other as well as copying Dinky!
Mak’s, one of the first Hong Kong
brands to identify itself on both box
and contents, also turned to Dinky
with a 6.5inch copy of the Commer
Fire Engine but often selected
popular Corgi subjects too. For
instance, the Mak’s Jaguar
Mark I saloon, scaled up
to six inches in length,
shares the characteristic
slightly raised rear stance
of the early Corgi model.
Mak’s issued this model as a fire
chief’s car like the Corgi but also
made two police versions: on dark
blue with a roof sign and in white
‘Motorway Police’ guise, the latter
having echoes of Dinky’s later
Jaguar 3.4 motorway patrol car.
Other Mak’s models which are
unmistakably Corgi-inspired are
the Commer County Police van and
the ‘new’ London taxi, a successor
to an earlier Mak’s copy of the long-
running Dinky Austin taxi.
It can be even more interesting
when Hong Kong plastic toys
based on products by less obvious
manufacturers turn up. Tri-ang
Spot-on, for example, lies behind
several commercial vehicles
such as Telsalda’s Milk Float and
Wadham’s ambulance. A rather
crudely made Austin articulated
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IN-DEPTH
lorry, boxed by the American toy
distributor Cragstan, looks very
much like Spot-on’s Austin Prime
Mover, and even features a similar
spring-loaded coupling on the
tractor unit. Unusually, a French
Renault Estafette police van made
by CIJ (Compagnie Industrielle
du Jouet) is the inspiration behind
a Mak’s model which, just like
the diecast original, features a
battery-operated roof light. This
also came in red as a fire van.
Sometimes plastic as well as
metal European toys were copied
in plastic in Hong Kong. Victory of
England made an expensive 1/18
scale electrically-powered model
of a Hillman Minx convertible
and one of these found its way to
Hong Kong where Clifford Toys
commissioned a cheaper copy
with friction motor, shown here
in a most attractive peppermint
green shade. Other items seem
to be inspired by Airfix 1/32 scale
assembly kits such as the Ford
Zodiac Mk III, marked ‘NFIC’ and
distributed by Telsalda. Similarly,
the Clifford Series had a boxed
set of six cars – Ford Classic,
Rover 90, Citroen DS 19, Jaguar
2.4, Humber Hawk and Sunbeam
Rapier. The first four look like
Corgis, the Humber is clearly
based on the Dinky, but the grille
and rear tailfins of the Sunbeam
suggest it was derived from the
Airfix kit.
Many more examples could
be given, but the point is clear:
Hong Kong plastic designs can
often be traced back to British,
and occasionally other, toys with
which collectors are already
familiar. But it would be wrong
to dismiss all plastic Hong Kong
cars as derivative. Next month, we
will see that for every Hong Kong
plastic toy that was a copy, there’s
another that was an original... CG
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›› COLLECTING KNOWLEDGE
Boxing
Stephen Yates talks you through
the range and variety of vintage
Corgi boxes available to collectors.
have been collecting vintage
I Corgi Toys for twenty-
five years. With every
model that I purchase, the
condition of the box and
plinth, or inner tray, is equal
in importance to that of the
model itself. For me, the box is
not merely an accompaniment to
the model; it is part of the overall
package and deserves the same
status.
‘BOXED’
One of the most common words
in auction catalogues and dealers’
stock lists is ‘Boxed’. While
on its own this term tells you
nothing about the condition of
the box, the fact that the model
is accompanied by a box can add
up to an extra 200% of value to
the otherwise unboxed model -
although it is often less than that.
(The assumption being that the
model is within the correct box or
one that we know was used in the
Corgi factory at the time).
BOX CONDITION
Here, condition is paramount. A
crisp and fresh box, complete and
with bright colours, may achieve
such an increase whereas a box
that is worn, tired or with an end
flap missing might add a negligible
amount to the value of the item.
Different auctioneers and dealers
use different gradings to describe
a box, but generally the following
will be understood by the average
collector: Mint, (Very) Near mint,
Excellent plus, Excellent, Good
plus, Good, Fair and Poor.
For example, an ‘excellent plus’
box will have minor wear on the
edges while one that is considered
to be ‘good plus’ will have lost
its original brightness and have
creases, tears and perhaps have
suffered from other damage to it
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clever
over the years. A ‘poor’ box will
be misshapen and very worn, and
although it will be recognisable as
the box that goes with a particular
model, it will add very little or
nothing at all to the model’s value.
A ‘mint’ box is as it was when it
left the factory or toy shop.
How close to ‘mint’ a box is will
depend on:
• Where and how carefully it’s
been stored
• How much it’s been handled at
events such as toy fairs
• The extent of direct sunlight to
which it’s been exposed
If the model sits on a plinth or
inner stand, the same gradings can
be used to describe its condition.
The only difference with the outer
box is that the plinth has inserts
for the model’s wheels, which,
if torn under the pressure of
the model, could downgrade the
overall condition.
DESIGN HISTORY
From 1956, when Corgi Toys were
first produced and marketed, to
1973, the models appeared in the
shops in the following distinct
boxes:
• 1956-1958 blue card boxes
These consisted of a coloured
drawing of the car on the two
picture sides of the box and just
text on the other two sides. The
make and model of the car was
recorded on the two end flaps as
well as on the picture sides. On the
side end flaps, memorable slogans
can be seen. For example: ‘The
Ones with Windows’ and ‘Collect
Corgis’. In addition to the model,
the box contained a concertina
leaflet, which showed what models
were available at the time and a
pink membership slip.
• 1959-1967 blue/yellow card
boxes type 1
As the models became more
sophisticated, the boxes listed the
features on the picture sides. In
this era, the box often contained a
plain membership slip, which the
owner of the toy could complete
and send to Corgi - along with a
postal order for 1/6 (7.5p in today’s
money). In some cases, the model
came in a plain unillustrated box
with the number stamped on the
end flaps, and one model even
came in a plain unnumbered box
in the early 1970s, although it was
promotional and not available to
the general public.
• 1967-1969 blue/yellow card
boxes type 2
The main difference being
‘CORGI TOYS’ has been replaced
by ‘CORGITOY’ or ‘CORGITOYS’
in an updated font.
• 1967-68 plastic bubble vac
formed ‘window’ boxes.
These, in my view, are the most
successful display boxes, but they
are very fragile and can easily be
ABOVE
1956-58 blue card boxes.
damaged over time.
• 1966-1973 window boxes
Some of these are beautifully
designed with header cards and
illustrations and text on the rear
of the box, but the acetate window
becomes very brittle over time
and can split or puncture easily.
PLINTH OR INNER STAND
In some cases, the base of the
plinth contained a piece of thick
card to take the weight of the
model and hopefully prevent
the wheel slots being torn. In
the case of TV or film related
models such as James Bond,
Batman and Green Hornet Black
Beauty, the base housed a secret
instruction envelope, which
contained instructions on how to
use the features on the model, a
lapel badge and weapons, such as
missiles attached to a sprue.
BOX ARTWORK
The artwork on the Corgi boxes
and plinths is considered to
be among the very best by
contemporary collectors. Very
little is known, however, about
who the artists were, but we can
assume that there was a number of
them and that they were probably
freelance and registered with a
London based agency. CG
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ABOVE
1967-1968 plastic bubble vac formed ‘window’ boxes. Although successful display boxes, they are very fragile and can easily be damaged over time.

ABOVE
ABOVE This box has minor wear on the long edge seen here, and would be
A selection of 1959-1967 blue and graded ‘excellent plus to near mint’ as a result.
yellow card boxes, type 1 .

RIGHT
Batman sitting on his plinth and box.

BELOW
1966-1973 window boxes.

ABOVE AND LEFT

Examples of models and gift sets which have a plinth inside the box.

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›› TRI-ANG TREASURES
Tri-ang’s
Bus Fleet
Completing our nostalgic look at the assortment of buses produced by Tri-ang Toys.
I
n the early to mid-1950s, Tri-
ang greatly expanded the
Minic range, introducing
generally smaller Push & Go
plastic models. These were
catalogued alongside the more
prestigious tinplate vehicles.
An early entrant into this new
sector was a little BOAC Commer
coach with Harrington dorsal
fin bodywork. It was originally
clockwork-powered and appeared
under the Rovex name. This
company was acquired by Lines
Bros in the early 1950s and the
model joined the developing
plastic Minic range, albeit for
a short period, initially with
a clockwork motor but later
updated with a ‘push and go’
mechanism.
Tri-ang also introduced a rather
poor quality, roughly 1/76 scale,
Push & Go London Transport RT
style double decker (always red)
and an equally disappointingly
proportioned coach. This did at
least appear in a variety of colours,
including military and RAF
liveries and is based on an early
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Bedford SB with Duple bodywork.
Models were marketed as:
“individually packed in gay
multi-coloured Minic cartons”
and were also available in gift
sets. First manufactured at the
main Tri-ang factory at Merton,
London, production transferred to
Canterbury, Kent from 1960.
There was also a rather nice
little Push & Go Morris J2 Minibus
in the smallest and quaintly named
Minic Minimus range. It was also
sold in self-assembly sets.
LARGE SCALE NON-
MECHANICAL PRESSED
STEEL BUSES 1957 TO 1966
AND BEYOND
The two basic versions of this
bus must be Tri-ang’s biggest
and best metal buses! The huge
double decker appeared first,
quite rightly promoted as a:
“stupendous realistic model”.
Again based on an AEC vehicle,
so popular in the Capital at this
time, there is some argument as
to whether it represents the then
new Routemaster or pre-dates
ABOVE Probably the most prized Tri-ang buses. The superb large scale pressed steel
double and single deckers from the late 1950s.
this and is based on the AEC
Regent V. Whichever, given that it
was designed as an outdoor pull-
along toy for children, it captures
superbly the essence of the half-
cab rear-entrance double-decker.
A slightly cheaper single deck
version, using most of the lower
deck pressings with a different
roof, was introduced in 1958.
The lorries in this range are of a
welded construction, but the buses
use the tab and slot arrangement
favoured on the much smaller
Minic tinplate range. This means
these buses can be readily
disassembled and restored using
the replacement parts and labels
now available. Always expensive,
the ’decker was priced at a shade
under £3 (almost half a week’s
wage) back in 1957.
The double decker was
finished in London Transport red
with cream relief, with superb
detailing, including impressive
side advert panels, fleetnames
PART
TWO
and destination screens. The
single decker initially came in
a contrasting green or rarer
turquoise, representing the
Green Line fleet. It was also later
available in London Transport
red. Listed in the catalogues for
a short period and only available
to order at a premium price were
double-deckers in Birmingham,
Manchester or Glasgow
Corporation liveries, which are
now truly rare. All these big
pressed steel buses now command
prices to match their size!
Although less collectable, there
was also an equally large steerable
blow-moulded plastic Sit ‘n’ Ride
Routemaster and a coach that
appeared alongside the pressed
steel classics from 1963, ousting
them from the catalogue after
1966. Interestingly, the coach was
a crudely scaled-up version of
the Spot-on Guy Mulliner coach.
It did not last long. The plastic
Routemaster was a popular toy
 IN-DEPTH

ABOVE These two plastic Minics replaced the earlier tinplate buses from 1961. The
Routemaster front grille from the earlier model was retained on the double decker but
these new buses lacked both the style and charm of the classic tinplate models.

with toddlers and lasted into the two bus models.

post-Lines Bros era in 1972/3,
among remnants of the Tri-ang
brand marketed by Barclay Toys.
MINIC LARGE PLASTIC
BUSES EARLY 1960S
The final tinplate double and
single deck Minic Routemasters,
reviewed earlier, were replaced
by two much cruder plastic
models from 1961. The new
double-decker was also based on a
Routemaster using the same grille
as the earlier tinplate model.
Given its size, it could have been
a great scale model, but sadly it
wasn’t. In reality Tri-ang was now
targeting this range of toys at an
ever lower age level.
A completely new and modern-
looking BOAC single deck
coach was also added to the final
Minic range. Once again it was
probably based on a Bedford/
Duple combination but was
poorly proportioned and a real
disappointment. Both models
were produced for relatively short
periods and are frustratingly
difficult to track down.
SPOT-ON DIECAST
BUSES 1961-1963
We’re now in more familiar
territory, with Tri-ang’s top quality
diecast range, manufactured in
Northern Ireland, which included
The familiar red Routemaster
appeared with several small
variations, with an unusual coach
based on an unsuccessful Guy
Warrior/Mulliner combination.
The coach did at least appear in
a variety of colourful liveries and
usually had a rather nice Tri-ang
Tours decal on the rear. The whole
range was made to a constant scale
of 1/42, which made the buses very
large and therefore extremely
expensive. The Routemaster was
also available in Presentation
Packs which were even more
costly and both vehicles continue
to command premium prices in
today’s collectors market.
MINIC MOTORWAYS 1960S
This range of electrically
powered slot track vehicles is
a little outside our usual scope.
However, it was a popular Tri-ang
range through most of the 1960s
and featured some interesting
vehicles. The models were made
at the new Minic factory at
Canterbury in Kent and were
designed for use alongside the
famous Tri-ang Railways and
were to the same OO/HO 1/80
scale. There were two buses and,
surprise, surprise, one was a
Routemaster (in red or green), the
other a Bedford SB/Duple-based
luxury coach.
ABOVE The smaller Minic plastic buses. The Commer Harrington coach (top right)
was originally produced by Rovex, a business acquired by Tri-ang in the early 1950s.
Fleetnames for Tri-ang Coaches and Minic Coaches appear on the Bedford/Duple single
deckers.
The coach was produced in
some striking colour schemes.
All are now expensive with rarer
liveries fetching big premium
prices.
MINIX BUS NO RC14
1964 TO 1972
The last new range introduced
featuring a bus was the Tri-ang
Rovex-produced series of small
scale plastic vehicles, initially
intended as railway accessories.
To fit the standard box, the bus
was to a much smaller scale than
the other vehicles and, at 1/135
scale, is the smallest of the Tri-
ang buses.
Described as an AEC Bus, it
was based on a then modern AEC
Reliance with Strachans 49 seater
single deck body. Like the other
Minix models, it was available
in eight to ten different colours,
some very hard to find.
THE LAST STOP
That’s just a tiny insight into over
50 years of the mighty Lines Bros
Tri-ang Toys empire, seen through
its varied and unusual styles, sizes,
and types of buses and coaches.
They range from the very sought-
after Minic tinplate and Spot-on
buses to their hugely inferior
plastic replacements. Starting
the journey were the stunning
wooden models of contemporary
pre-war London vehicles, rarely
seen and commanding huge
prices. Specialist collectors have
ensured premium prices for many
of the Minic Motorway coaches
and there is a big following for the
giant scale pressed steel double
and single deckers, which can
fetch £100 plus even in playworn
condition.
The little plastic Push & Go
Minics are still relatively cheap,
although the earlier Rovex-
inspired Commer coach is quite
scarce. The later Minix single
deck bus can still be found boxed
at around £10, although only for
the more common colours.
That just leaves the solitary
pre-war pressed-steel Green Line
coach. Mine still has the original
6d price written on the box. It’s
a simple but charming toy and,
while it does include some nice
features it can hardly be classed
as an accurate scale model. As
such it can probably be said to be
a typical Tri-ang Toys model and it
gets my vote as my favourite Tri-
ang Bus! CG

BELOW
The very collectable buses from the early 1960s Tri-ang Spot-on 1/42 scale
diecast range. Yet another Routemaster, although the Mulliner-bodied Guy
Warrior coach was a really unusual choice.

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›› KNOW YOUR HOBBY

10 minute
TOY EXPERT!
Mamod

M
y introduction to Live steam working toys have Bowman miniature stationary to approach Geoffrey Malins
Mamod live steam been around since Victorian times. engines were the brainchild of with a view to taking over the
toys came in 1963 As the age of steam advanced so did Geoffrey Jenkins who had also manufacture of miniature
when my father the desire to build miniature steam made engines and model steam stationary steam engines for
arrived home from models. Stationary engines were launches under the Wormar brand. Hobbies.
work one dark winter evening quickly followed by locomotives He operated from London initially Malins took up the offer and
with a parcel tucked under his although those early steam toys before re-locating to premises in designed a new stationary engine
arm. This turned out to be a toy were expensive and afforded Dereham, Norfolk, leased from he called the SE1 which was duly
steam roller he had bought second mainly by the wealthy classes. the Hobbies factory. Jenkins followed by the SE2. These were
hand from one of his workmates. In 1936 a West Midlands man miniature superheated engines slightly smaller in size than the
He claimed he’d bought it ‘for the called Geoffrey Malins laid the were primarily used to power Bowman engines but were well
kids’ but it was very clear from foundations for a company that model steam launches such as the suited to the needs of Hobbies
the outset that the roller was would produce live steam models ‘Peggy’ and ‘Pioneer’ models. The customers.
really ‘Dad’s toy’! We watched at a price affordable to those Wormar engines were designed to In 1937 Malins decided to
on intently as he set about firing on more moderate incomes. A power Meccano models. market the engines himself as well
her up with methylated spirit company that would go on to In 1935 Geoffrey Jenkins as supplying Hobbies. Calling his
and it wasn’t long before she become a household name in had considerably diversified new company ‘Mamod’ (MAlins
whistled into motion. My mother, steam toys. his business interests creating MODels), Malins set up a workshop
however, was not best pleased Malins had been producing ‘Jenkins Productions Ltd’ and, in Prince Street, Smethwick. In
to see this smelly contraption brass boat propellors in the West as the result of entering other 1938 a move was made to St Mary’s
hissing and spitting its way, at Midlands town of Smethwick for markets, made a decision to stop Row, where Geoffrey Malins
some considerable speed, over ‘Hobbies Ltd’ who had, until 1935, producing his Bowman steam was joined by his son Bud. The
her beloved Axminster carpet sold live steam engines made for engines. This led Hobbies Ltd company quickly developed and a
so we were all quickly banished them by a company called Bowman. workforce of around 30 workers
to the kitchen where the smooth
linoleum floor made the perfect
running surface. As our roller had
no regulator or reverse gear all
further steam-ups were banned
indoors and my sister quickly lost
interest in the engine, returning
to her more girly playthings. Me
and dad took the roller outside and
played happily solling out sand
and gravel!
That introduction to live steam
as little more than an infant, was
a revelation and the start of a
passion for that has remained
with me all my life. That little
Mamod steam roller was
far more than just a toy,
it was a lesson in science
and engineering rolled
into one and I was one
of millions of small boys
lucky enough to fire up and
drive a steam machine at the
tender age of seven… albeit a very
small one! I had to wait a further
fifty three years to have a go at ABOVE
driving a real one! SW1 steam wagon.

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were eventually employed in
the factory. Mamod became a
private company in 1939 before
production was ended by the
outbreak of World War Two.
After the war Mamod went
its own way and the business
relationship with Hobbies came
to an end. For a while production
was restricted to the SE1 and SE2
engines and by 1948 Geoffrey
Malin’s sons Eric and Phil had both
joined the company. In 1949 Mamod
moved home once again, this time
to a larger factory at Camden
Street. It is here where
they embarked upon
their first steam-powered toy – The
Meteor Motor Launch which was
designed around a WW2 torpedo
boat. This was not a successful
model, however, with only around
1,500 being sold and it was deleted
from the catalogue in 1952.
In order to boost turnover
Malins Engineering also made
solid brass door catches alongside
its steam engines, which, by 1954,
were all sporting new pressed steel
raised bases and Mazak flywheels.
In 1955 Eric Malins took control
of the company with his father
and founder Geoffrey Malins
becoming Company Chairman.
LEFT
SE3 steam engine.
LEFT
The Meteor
Motor Launch,
from 1949.
1957 saw the arrival of the
new twin-cylinder SE3 engine
with its ‘vapourising’ burner
which would lead to the end of
the old-style wick-type burners.
Two new marine engines were
also developed and further
modifications were made to the
fireboxes of Mamod’s engines.
The 1950s ended on a high
for Mamod with production at
its greatest ever level and some
exciting new products in the
development stage.
1961 saw the launch of the first
Mamod self-propelled wheeled
vehicle which was the SR1 Steam
roller mentioned at the start of
this article. This toy, although
quite expensive, proved a great
success leading Mamod to make
yet another move to larger
premises at Thorns Works, Quarry
Bank, Brierly Hill.
The roller was followed by the
TE1 Steam Tractor, which, like the
Steam Roller, was well received
by the public. These were good
days for Mamod with sales
figures looking very healthy. The
next development was the MEC1
engine produced in collaboration
with Meccano which arrived
at the same time as Mamod
dispensed with the use
of screws in favour of
pop-rivets.
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IN-DEPTH
LEFT
A Mamod TE1 spirit fired traction engine;
together with a Mamod SR1A spirit fired
steam roller.
The new ‘a’ series engines
arrived in 1967 complete with
reversing action and investment
in the business continued through
the 1960s with the introduction of
more diecast components helping
to keep production costs down.
The SW1 Steam Waggon,
considered by many collectors’
to be Mamod’s finest creation,
was launched in 1972 and by 1973
yearly production was estimated
at around 115,000 units across the
whole range.
1975 proved to be a very
sad year for the company
following the death of its founder
Geoffrey Malins at the age of
83. Another massive set back
was also encountered following
an accident involving the use
of methylated spirit in the USA
which hit the national press
causing the loss of orders for
Mamod toys. This led to some
staff being laid off although the
problem was eventually rectified
by a switch to solid fuel tablets
which was achieved by 1977.
Despite these difficult times
Mamod still managed to launch
another road vehicle in the shape
of the SA1 Steam Roadster. Once
again it was well received and
more innovation followed in
spring 1979 with the launch of 5
new SP series stationary engines.
Despite the launch of a new RS1
and RS2 Railway Series, 1980 was
to be the final year of ownership
of the Mamod brand by the Malins
family. The financial outlay on the
development of the railway sets led
to a cash flow crisis and, despite
still trading well Mamod was
forced into receivership in 1980.
There followed a long period
of instability for the firm with a
series of buy outs and takeovers
but despite almost going out
of business in 1989 the brand
proved too strong to die.
Happily in 1992 Mamod was
taken over by the Terry family
who maintained its strong West
Midlands roots whilst further
developing the range. All the
old favourites are still there,
including that iconic Steam
Roller. But lucky boys and girls of
2023 are now able to fire up such
delights as a fire engine, various
limousines and a magnificent red
London Bus.
Although 87 years have passed
since Mamod made its first steam
toy this great British toy maker
is still going strong today… and
long may it continue. CG
›› AT THE MOVIES
Famous Faces
MIGHTY MORPHIN POWER RANGERS
Remembering collectables that found fame through books, comics and the silver screen.
I
n 1993 a phenomenon began on
US television: Mighty Morphin
Power Rangers. Based on
Japan’s Super Sentai series,
the Power Rangers show and
associated merchandise were
so successful that the Power
Rangers were catapulted almost
immediately to fame and became
1990s icons!
The premise was that the world
was under threat by Rita Repulsa
and her Evil Space Aliens. Five
teenagers were selected as elite
resistance fighters, and with Power
Morphers, they were able to draw on
the powers of spirits of prehistoric
creatures (represented on Power
Coins bestowed on each teen).
This transformed them into
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Power Rangers, which enabled
them to call upon Power Zords
(Dinozords), prehistoric-creature-
like battle machines. The Dinozords
were able to physically combine
into larger fighting machines.
MIGHTY MORPHIN POWER
RANGERS FIGURES
Bandai produced a range of figures
and toys from the Power Rangers
television series. They made the
five Power Rangers figures to an
eight-inch scale, and packaged
them in boldly-coloured, distinctive
triangular window boxes.
The Red Power Ranger,
Jason Lee Scott, was the group’s
commander. His main personality
trait was calmness, even if the
bullies Bulk and Skull harassed
him. He was always there for his
friends and willing to give them a
hand (especially Billy). Because
Jason was ‘old and powerful’,
he was chosen to command the
Tyrannosaurus Dinozord. He was
given a Power Sword with which to
fight the evil forces.
Zack Taylor was the Black
Power Ranger, and was second in
command. Zack was energetic,
charismatic and confident. He
developed his own fighting
technique, combining the two
things he loved the most: martial
arts and dancing. He was given
power over the Mastodon Dinozord
for being clever and brave. His
weapon was the Power Axe.
ABOVE LEFT Make way for the clever
and brave Black Ranger, Zack Taylor!
Photo courtesy of Toyman Collectibles of
Kaukauna, Wisconsin.
ABOVE CENTRE The leader, Jason, the
‘old and powerful’ Red Ranger. Photo
courtesy of primetoystore.
ABOVE RIGHT Trini, the Yellow Ranger
kung fu expert! Photo courtesy of
primetoystore.
Trini Kwan was chosen to be
the Yellow Power Ranger because
she was compassionate, witty and
having a knowledge of martial
arts (her specialty was Kung-Fu).
She commanded the Sabre-toothed
Tiger Dinozord due to being
fearless and agile. She had a strong

RIGHT
The dynamic Dragonzord! Photo courtesy
of Christian Saad.
FAR RIGHT
The Mighty Megazord, deluxe edition!
Photo courtesy of Christian Saad.
BELOW
Inside the Megazord box lurk the five
Dinozords which combine to form the
Megazord. Photo courtesy of Christian
Saad.
belief in personal honour and didn’t
hesitate to put herself in danger to
save others. An environmentalist,
she was one of two intellectuals
in the group, the other being Billy.
Her weapons were Power Daggers.
The Pink Power Ranger was
Kimberly Hart. She was very
fond of gymnastics and taught
dance at the Angel Grove’s Youth
Center. She was best friends with
Trini. Kimberly was awarded the
Pterodactyl Coin because she was
graceful and smart. Her weapon
was the Power Bow.
Billy Cranston, the Blue Power
Ranger, was portrayed as the nerd
of the group. Despite his occasional
clumsiness, he was later shown to
have great potential, and grew into
a much stronger individual. He was
assigned the Triceratops Power Coin
for being patient and wise. Billy’s
weapon was the Power Lance.
THE ZORDS
The great Megazord was a
monstrous Zord made up of
several Dinozords. These were
the Triceratops, Pterodactyl,
Mastodon, Sabre-toothed Tiger,
and the Tyrannosaurus. Bandai
produced two versions of the
Megazord for 1993. The standard
Megazord had attachable Sabre-
toothed Tiger and Triceratops
Zords, while the Deluxe Megazord
could be disassembled into the five
separate Dinozords.
Bandai made a Dragonzord
with Green Ranger. Tommy (the
Green Ranger, introduced later
in the first series) could summon
the Dragonzord and control its
movements remotely thanks to
his Dragon Dagger. These actions
were versatile and included being
able to shoot missiles from its
fingertips or use its tail as a drill!
Titanus, ’the Carrier Zord’, was
a giant brachiosaurus who could
fire blasts out of his mouth. He was
armed with several cannons on his
chest and his tail could be formed
into two more shoulder cannons!
You could combine Bandai’s
ABOVE
Hxx
Titanus with other Zords to create
the Ultrazord.
EVIL SPACE ALIENS FIGURES
Bandai produced four Evil Space
Aliens figures: Goldar, King
Sphinx, Squatt and Baboo.
Goldar was a humanoid lion with
fearsome red eyes. As the name
indicates, he wore golden armour.
He was one of the most powerful
allies of Rita Repulsa.
King Sphinx was created from
Egyptian sand by the evil Finster.
He was made in order to destroy
Jason, the leader of the Power
Rangers. His wings could blow
people miles away when they
flapped! He also carried a sceptre
or crook with a golden question
mark at the end which was able to
emit flaming question marks.
Squatt, one of Rita’s servants,
mainly acted as a spy in the series.
He could be defined as a mixture
of a blueberry and a hobgoblin!
He was usually cowardly and
generally fled from battles.
Baboo was a cross between
a monkey and a vampire bat.
He was highly creative and was
able to invent potions or devices
which Rita could use for her evil
purposes.
BATTLE BIKES AND MORE
Bandai’s Tyrannosaurus Battle
Bike was Jason’s motorcycle.
It featured a firing Side Power
Cannon, and included a Red Ranger
figure. Zack’s Mammoth Battle
Bike had a Sabre-toothed Tiger
Sidecar and Black Ranger figure.
The Triceratops Battle Bike, with
Pterodactyl Side Car, was Billy’s
motorbike and included a Blue
Ranger figure. The Battle Bikes
didn’t appear in MMPR, but were
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IN-DEPTH
from the Japanese TV series which
the American show was based on.
Bandai also made the full-sized
MMPR Power Gun/Sword, a dual
weapon as the name implies. It was
sold in a set which included the
Power Morpher and coins.
COLLECTING AND LEGACY
In collecting the original Bandai
1993 line-up of MMPR items,
considering only mint-in-box
examples, a single figure might go
for £40, while a lot of five could run
£80. You might find the Megazord
for £25, but be prepared for £200
for the Megazord Deluxe. The
Dragonzord and Titanus can each
fetch £160. If you are after a Power
Gun/Sword, brace yourself for a
price of £230! The market for the
Evil Space Aliens and the Battle
Bikes appears to be limited.
The Power Rangers’ popularity
has continued unabated. The
Power Rangers Megaforce series
premiered on US TV in February
2013, and Bandai and Saban Brands
released a new Power Rangers toy
line to celebrate MMPR’s 20th
anniversary. Bandai still offers
a huge range of MMPR action
figures and toys. Power Rangers
Ninja Steel, the 24th season of the
Power Rangers TV series, along
with the movie Power Rangers,
both aired in 2017.
Various programmes continue to
this day, with Power Rangers Beast
Morphers and Power Rangers Dino
Fury playing on television.
Mighty Morphin Power Rangers:
Once & Always is a 2023 American
superhero television film serving to
commemorate the 30th anniversary
of both Mighty Morphin Power
Rangers (1993–1995) and the Power
Rangers franchise. CG
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Rounding up the latest toy sales across the country with a visit to Excalibur Auctions,
Ewbank’s, British Toy Auctions, Vectis and Thomson Roddick Auctioneers

Pokémon Trading Card Game

Japanese Mario PikachuXY promo
box, the item is sealed and the
contents is in near mint condition.
Exclusively available at Japanese
Pokémon centres in 2016 Sold for
£3,600, Ewbanks, August.
Pokémon Trading Card Game
Cosmic Eclipse, Sun and Moon,
sealed booster box. Sold for £480,
Ewbanks, August.
Pokémon Trading Card Game -
EX Holon Phantoms Reverse Holo,
complete set. contains 98 reverse
holo cards from the EX Holon
Phantoms expansion, doesn’t
include the EX, gold star or secret
cards or holo energy. All cards are
in near mint condition. Sold for
£800, Ewbanks, August.
Pokémon Trading Card Game
- two cards; Ancient Mew and
Aerodactyl pre-release card.
Ancient Mew is in near mint
condition. Aerodactyl is in
excellent condition with pin hole at
top of card. The items comes from
the vault of a former Wizards of
the coast staff member. Sold for
£75, Ewbanks, August.

Pokémon
Trading Card
Game PSA 10
Trainer Giovanni,
Japanese Holo
Pokémon Trading Card Game, card from 1999.
JapaneseLuigiPikachuXY promo Sold for £100,
Pokémon Trading Card Game Ewbanks, August.
box, exclusively available at
Cosmic Eclipse, Sun and Moon, I
Japanese Pokémon centres in 2016.
sealed booster box. Sold for £460, Pokémon Trading Card Game
The item is sealed and the contents
is in near mint condition. Sold for
Ewbanks, August. 1st Edition Red Cheeks Pikachu -
£2,600, Ewbanks, August. Shadowless, base set. In near mint
condition. Sold for £460, Ewbanks, Pokémon
August. Trading Card
Game PSA 9
Pikachu Poncho
promo, Japanese
from 2015. Sold
for £100, Ewbanks,
August.

Pokémon Trading Card Game,

base set booster box. This lot
contains a sealed Base Set booster
box, this is an unlimited print run
box, containing 36 packs. WOTC
factory sealed. Base Set was the
first Pokémon set released in 1999
and the start of the trading card
phenomenon. Sold for £8,000,
Ewbanks, August.
Pokémon Trading Card Game,
German first edition base set,
sealed booster box (Wizards of
the Coast, 1999). factory sealed in
its original factory sealed shrink
wrap. The box contains 36 booster
packs, each with 11 cards, total
of 396 cards. Sold for £7,000,
Ewbanks, August.
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Pokémon Trading Card Game, Pokémon
base set, complete set - Japanese Trading Card
Pokémon Trading Card Game Game PSA
release. First ever Pokemon
Neo Genesis, near complete set 10 Gyarados,
set. All cards are in near mint
104/111. Cards missing from set: 2, Japanese Holo
condition. Sold for £650, Ewbanks,
5, 7, 8, 11, 12, 18 (7). Provenance: from 1999. Sold
August. This item comes from the vault
for £90, Ewbanks,
of a former Wizards of the coast August.
staff member. The majority of the
cards are near mint. Sold for £420,
Ewbanks, August.
Pokémon
Trading Card
Game 1st Edition
Shining Charizard
- Neo Destiny.
Number 107, PSA
graded 9 mint.
Sold for £2,400,
Ewbanks, August.
Pokémon Trading Card Game
Skyridge complete Reverse Holo Pokémon Trading Card Game
set. This lot includes a complete sealed Machamp base set. This
144 card Skyridge Pokémon set of item comes from the vault of a
reverse holo cards. All cards are former Wizards of the coast staff TRAD
in near mint condition. Sold for member. Sold for £70, Ewbanks, IN
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Marvel Spotlight The Spider
Woman #32, 1977, graded 9.0 (near
mint to mint) by CGC. Origin and
first appearance of Spider-Woman,
Gil Kane cover with Sal Buscema
interior art. Flat/unfolded, off-
white to white pages presented
slabbed and sealed. Sold for £75,
Excalibur Auctions, August.
Marvel Amazing Spider-Man
#194, 1979, first appearance
of the Black Cat and Mysterio
appearance. Al Milgrom cover
with a Black Cat pin up illustration
by Dave Cockrum, flat/unfolded.
Sold for £130, Excalibur Auctions,
August.
Marvel Team-Up #1, 1972,
premiere issue of the series that
teamed up Spider-Man with other
Marvel characters, flat/unfolded.
Sold for £50, Excalibur Auctions,
August.
Marvel Team-Up #141, 1984,
graded 9.2 (near mint) by CGC.
Ties with ASM #252 for the first
appearance of the black costume
Daredevil and Black Widow
appearance. Arthur Adams and
Mike Mignola cover with Greg
LaRocque interior art, flat/
unfolded, white pages, presented
slabbed and sealed. Sold for £65,
Excalibur Auctions, August.
Marvel Venom: Lethal Protector
#1, Gold edition, 1993, rare retailer
incentive gold variant. First solo
series featuring Venom, Mark
Bagley signature on cover, flat/
unfolded. Sold for £280, Excalibur
Auctions, August.
Marvel Uncanny X-Men #129,
1980, first appearances of Kitty
Pryde Emma Frost, Sebastian
Shaw and the Hellfire Club. John
Byrne/ Terry Austin cover and
interior art. Sold for £110, Excalibur
Auctions, August.
Marvel Iron Fist #14, 1977, first
appearance of Sabretooth, Al
Milgrom cover with John Byrne
interior art, flat/unfolded. Sold for
£170, Excalibur Auctions, August.
Marvel Premiere Iron Fist #15,
1974, first appearance and origin
of Iron Fist (Daniel Rand) and
introduction of K’un-Lun. Cover
and interior art by Gil Kane, flat/
unfolded. Sold for £110, Excalibur
Auctions, August.
Marvel Shogun Warriors #1,
1979, graded 8.5 by CGC. First
team appearance of the Shogun
Warriors - humans piloting giant
robot protectors - Herb Trimpe
cover and interior art, flat/unfolded
white pages, presented slabbed
and sealed. Sold for £38, Excalibur
Auctions, August.
Marvel Captain America Vol.
5 #6, 2005, first full appearance
of Bucky Barnes as the Winter
Soldier and now confirmed to be
appearing in the Thunderbolts
movie scheduled for 2024. Flat/
unfolded. Sold for £35, Excalibur
Auctions, August.
Marvel Incredible Hulk #271,
1981, first comic book appearance
of Rocket Raccoon (Guardians of
the Galaxy). Al Milgrom cover
with Sal Buscema interior art, flat/
unfolded. Sold for £130, Excalibur
Auctions, August.
Marvel Avengers #43, 1967 UK
price variant, first appearance
of the Red Guardian, husband of
the Black Widow (now confirmed
for the Thunderbolts movie).
John Buscema cover and interior
art, flat/unfolded. Sold for £38,
Excalibur Auctions, August.
Amazing Adventures #2, 1961,
written by Larry Lieber and
Stan Lee, with pencils by Jack
Kirby. Title changes to the classic
‘Amazing Adult Fantasy’ after
issue #6, flat/unfolded. Sold for
£150, Excalibur Auctions, August.
Marvel Amazing Adult Fantasy
#7, 1961 UK price variant,
premiere issue formerly titled
Amazing Adventures. Cover art
by Steve Ditko and Stan Goldberg,
flat/unfolded. Sold for £200,
Excalibur Auctions, August.
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Marvel Amazing Adult Fantasy
#9, 1962, first appearance of
Tim Boo Ba. Cover art by Steve
Ditko, Stan Goldberg and Artie
Simek, flat/unfolded. Sold for £170,
Excalibur Auctions, August.
Marvel Amazing Adult Fantasy
#12, 1962, debut of Stan Lee’s
letter column ‘Mailbag’ and cameo
silhouetted appearances of Stan
Lee and Steve Ditko. Cover art by
Steve Ditko, flat/unfolded. Sold for
£200, Excalibur Auctions, August.
Marvel Silver Surfer #11, 1969,
graded 5.5 by CGC. “O, Bitter
Victory!” - John Buscema and
Dan Adkins cover and interior art,
flat/unfolded with white pages,
presented slabbed and sealed. Sold
for £60, Excalibur Auctions, August.
Special Marvel edition #15,
1973, first appearance of Shang-
Chi, the Master of Kung-Fu and
first appearances of Sir Dennis
Nayland-Smith, Fu Manchu & the
Si-Fan secret society. Cover and
interior art by Jim Starlin and Al
Milgrom, flat/unfolded. Sold for
£130, Excalibur Auctions, August.
Special Marvel edition #65, 1974,
title becomes Master of Kung-Fu.
Second appearance of Shang-
Chi and the first appearance of
Midnight Sun. Cover and interior
art by Jim Starlin and Al Milgrom,
flat/unfolded. Sold for £60,
Excalibur Auctions, August.
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—Marvel Deadly Hands of Kung
Fun #19, 1975, the first appearance
of White Tiger, the first Puerto
Rican superhero in comic book
history and the first Latino
superhero created by Marvel. Flat/
unfolded. Sold for £42, Excalibur
Auctions, August.
—Marvel Adventure into Fear #10,
1972, first headlining Man-Thing
title feature. Cover art by Gray
Morrow and John Costanza, flat/
unfolded. Sold for £48, Excalibur
Auctions, August.
—Marvel Adventure into Fear
#19, 1973, the first appearance of
Howard the Duck. Cover art by
Gil Kane and Ernie Chan. Flat and
unfolded. Sold for £60, Excalibur
Auctions, August.
—British Marvel Captain
Britain #1, 1976, origin and first
appearance of Captain Britain
complete with the free gift of a
Captain Britain mask (punched).
Larry Lieber cover with Herb
Trimpe interior art with Chris
Claremont story. Flat/unfolded.
Sold for £110, Excalibur Auctions,
August.
—British Marvel Captain Britain
#2, 1976, dated October 20th, free
gift included. Second appearance
and origin of Captain Britain,
includes free unpunched Captain
Britian boomerang gift. Herb
Trimpe cover with Trimpe and
Fred Kida interior art. Flat/
unfolded. Sold for £60, Excalibur
Auctions, August.
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—Dinky Pre-war 67a Junkers JU89
Heavy Bomber, black body, silver
cockpit, red metal propellers,
light blue undercarriage and
wings with “German” insignia.
Overall condition is generally
good plus to excellent (couple of
small marks on edges) still a nice
bright example of a hard issue
to find in a generally fair to good
(slightly faded) lift off lid box with
instruction leaflet. Sold for £380,
Vectis, August.
—Dinky Pre-war 62g Boeing Flying
“Fortress”, finished in silver,
red metal propellers with “USA”
insignias, with gliding pin. Overall
condition is generally excellent
in a good blue lift off lid box with
instruction leaflet. Sold for £90,
Vectis, August.
—Dinky Pre-war 60h Singapore
Flying Boat, finished in silver,
bare metal propellers with “RAF”
roundels. Overall condition is
generally excellent plus in a good
plus blue lift off lid box. Sold for
£160, Vectis, August.
—Dinky Pre-war 66 Camouflage
Aeroplane Set, to include 66a
Heavy Bomber; 66b Dive Bomber
Fighter; 66c Two-seater Fighter;
66d Torpedo Dive Bomber; 66e
Medium Bomber - all are finished
in camouflage green/brown with
bare metal propellers and “RAF”
insignias and 66f Autogiro - silver
including rotor blades with
red front propeller. Conditions
appear to be generally excellent
to excellent plus (couple of small
marks around edges) in a generally
good green lift off lid box (does
have some slight fading) still a
nice bright example of a hard
to find issue set. Sold for £4,200,
Vectis, August.
—Dinky 60 Aeroplanes Gift Set, to
include Imperial Airways - gold,
with “GA BTI” lettering; Low Wing
—Dinky Foden Flat Truck with
Monoplane - red with “G-A VYP”
tailboard in the less common
lettering; Leopard Moth - green
colour scheme of mid blue cab,
with “G-A CPT” lettering; General
chassis and wheel hubs and a fawn
Monospar - silver with “G-A BVP”
back # 903. The model appears in
lettering; Percival Gull - off white
very good condition overall with
with “G-A DZO” lettering and
light signs of age and use. The box
Autogiro - gold, blue. Generally
is good with some wear. Sold for
good plus to near mint, contained
£300, British Toy Auctions, August.
in a good to good plus blue lift off
lid box with paper label on lid and
side. Sold for £700, Vectis, August.
—French Dinky 60 Avions /
Aeroplanes Set, to include Arc- —Dinky Foden Diesel 8 Wheel
en-ciel - gold, blue; Potez - yellow, Wagon in the early colour scheme
grey; Dewoitine - cream, red; of light grey cab and back with
Autogiro - gold, blue, yellow blade; black chassis, red side flash and
Hanriot - green, off white and wheel hubs and black herringbone
Breguet - red, green. Generally tyres # 501. The model appears in
good plus to excellent plus, all good condition overall with some
contained in a generally good to signs of age and play use. The box
good plus base and inner card, is fair to good. Sold for £80, British
blue lift off lid is fair to good with Toy Auctions, August.
paper label on top and side. Sold
for £1,600, Vectis, August.
—Dinky Pre-war 60s Medium
Bomber 2-piece Set, both are
—Dinky Foden Flat Truck with
finished in camouflage green/
tailboard in the early colour
brown, silver cockpit, red
scheme of pale grey cab and back
propeller, black underside,
with dark blue side flash, chassis
with “RAF” roundel. Conditions
and wheel hubs # 503. The model
appear to be generally good plus,
appears in good condition overall
still lovely bright examples in a
with light signs of age and use.
generally good plus blue lift off
The box is good with some wear.
lid box (couple of small scuffs
Sold for £85, British Toy Auctions,
on edges). Sold for £160, Vectis,
August.
August.
—Dinky Foden Flat Truck with
tailboard in the rare colour
scheme of all orange body, with —Dinky Foden Diesel 8 Wheel
green wheel hubs and grey tyres Wagon in the early colour scheme
# 903. The model appears in very of red cab, chassis and wheels,
good condition overall with light with silver side flash and fawn
signs of age and use. The box is back # 501. The model appears in
good with some wear, it also has good condition overall with some
and American Hudson Dobson signs of age and play use. The box
distributor sticker on the bottom. is fair with a split on the bottom.
Sold for £440, British Toy Auctions, Sold for £60, British Toy Auctions,
August. August.
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Dinky Foden Flat Truck in the
early colour scheme of green
cab, back and wheel hubs, with
silver side flash and black chassis
# 501. The model appears in good
condition overall with some signs
of age and use. The box is poor
with wear and two split corners.
Sold for £50, British Toy Auctions,
August.
Dinky Foden Flat Truck in
the very rare colour scheme of
yellow cab and chassis with mid
green back and wheel hubs # 902.
The model appears in very good
condition overall but has had paint
touch ups on the cab and chassis.
The box is good with some wear.
Sold for £420, British Toy Auctions,
August.
A boxed Franklin Mint 1938
Rolls Royce Phantom III in 1/24
scale. The model appears in mint
condition in its original packaging.
Sold for £25, British Toy Auctions,
August.
Franklin Mint 1933 Duesenberg
J Victoria in 1/24 scale. The model
appears in near mint condition
with a small amount of paint rash
on the left front wing. It is in its
original polystyrene packaging
but has no outer box. Sold for £15,
British Toy Auctions, August.
770K in 1/24 scale. The model
appears in mint condition in its
original polystyrene packaging
but has no outer box Sold for £22,
British Toy Auctions, August.
Franklin Mint 1935 Duesenberg
Model J Convertible in 1/24
scale. The model appears in
mint condition in its original
polystyrene packaging but has no
outer box. Sold for £28, British Toy
Auctions, August.
A very unusual boxed Maychbox
Racing Mini # 29. This one is
finished in non standard orange
with Fanta logos. The paint finish is
very good and the logos including
the Chinese characters for Fanta
on the bonnet appear to be printed
on giving an almost factory look to
it. The base is held on with a screw.
It comes in a standard box which
is in fair condition with some wear
and a torn end flap. Sold for £80,
British Toy Auctions, August.
A boxed Corgi Morris Mini
Minor in blue with red interior
and shaped wheel hubs # 226. The
car appears in mint condition,
the original factory paint finish is
quite patchy with areas of white
showing through the blue. The box
is near mint with a pencil price on
one end. Sold for £50, British Toy
Auctions, August.
A boxed vintage French made
CIJ Renault bus #3/40. The model
appears near mint in a good box,
small split on one corner. Sold for
£30, British Toy Auctions, August.
Dinky Toys #109 Austin Healey
‘100’ Sports. The model in off-
white, red interior, red hubs, white
driver and RN 23 decals, has a few
small nicks otherwise appears to
be in very good condition overall
sitting within a generally good
red and yellow carded picture
box, with correct colour spot and
pencil price annotation to one end.
Sold for £35, British Toy Auctions,
August.
Dinky Toys #111 Triumph TR2
Sports. The model in salmon pink,
blue interior, blue hubs, white
driver and RN 29 decals, has a few
small nicks mainly along rear of
tonneau edge, otherwise appears to
be in very good condition overall
sitting within a good overall red
and yellow carded picture box,
with correct colour spot. Sold for
£50, British Toy Auctions, August.
A boxed Dinky Toys #170 Ford
Fordor Sedan. The model in two
tone low line salmon pink and blue,
with blue hubs, large lettering and
170 to base, with Ford Sedan on
underside of roof, appears to be
in excellent condition. The model
is housed within a generally good
red and yellow carded picture
box showing highline illustration,
with some storage wear plus a pen
annotation on one side, and has
correct colour spot. Sold for £50,
British Toy Auctions, August.
A boxed Dinky Toys #107
Sunbeam Alpine Sports. The model
in light blue, cream interior and
hubs, white driver with RN 26
decals, has a few small marks and
blemishes (would benefit from
cleaning) otherwise appears to
be in good condition overall. The
model is housed within a generally
good red and yellow carded picture
box, with some storage wear plus
a pen price annotation and has
correct colour spot. Sold for £35,
British Toy Auctions, August.
A boxed Dinky Toys #181
Volkswagen (Beetle). The model
in greyish blue with blue hubs, has
a few small marks mainly around
raised edges otherwise appears to
be in very good condition which
would be enhanced with cleaning.
The model sits within a fair plus
red and yellow carded picture
box, with some storage related
imperfections and has correct
colour spot. Sold for £28, British
Toy Auctions, August.

A boxed Dinky Toys #164

Franklin Mint 1929 Rolls Royce
Phantom I Cabriolet De Ville in
1/24 scale. The model appears
in mint condition in its original
polystyrene packaging but has no
outer box. Sold for £15, British Toy
Auctions, August.
Dan-Toys Mini Assistance
Van in Touring Secours livery #
DAN-292. The model appears in
mint condition in a mint box with
internal packing pieces. Sold for
£20, British Toy Auctions, August.
Vauxhall Cresta Saloon. The model
in two tone grey and green with
grey hubs, has a few small marks DIECA
RESU ST
otherwise appears to be in very
good condition overall sitting
within a generally good red and
yellow carded picture box, with
some storage wear and has correct
LTS
colour spot. Sold for £30, British
Toy Auctions, August.

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—A boxed Dinky Toys #642
Pressure Refueller. The model in
blue has some marks mainly to
raised edges otherwise appears to
be in fair plus to good condition.
The model sits within a good blue
and white striped lift off lid box.
Sold for £35, British Toy Auctions,
August.
—A boxed military Dinky Toys
#697 25-Pounder Field Gun Set
(without windows). The set has a
few small marks in several places
but overall appears to be in very
good plus condition. The set is
housed in a blue and yellow lift
off lid presentation box which
has some age and storage related
scuffs with two small pieces of
taping, otherwise appears to be
in fair plus to good condition
and comes with original inner
packaging piece. Sold for £25,
British Toy Auctions, August.
—A boxed military Dinky Toys
#660 Tank Transporter. The vehicle
has a few small marks in a couple
of places but overall appears to be
in excellent condition. The set is
housed in a blue and white striped
lift off lid box which has some age
and storage related wear, and two
pieces of taping, otherwise appears
to be in good condition and comes
with original inner packaging
pieces. Sold for £40, British Toy
Auctions, August.
—A boxed military Dinky Toys
#661 Recovery Tractor. The model
has a some minute marks but
overall appears to be in excellent
plus condition, and is housed in
a blue and white striped lift off
lid box which has some age and
storage related scuffing otherwise
appears to be in fair plus to good
condition and comes with original
inner packaging pieces. Sold for
£25, British Toy Auctions, August.
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—A boxed military Dinky Toys
#689 Medium Artillery Tractor.
The model has a some very small
nicks in a couple of places but
overall appears to be in excellent
plus condition, and is housed in
a blue and white striped lift off
lid box which has some age and
storage wear otherwise appears to
be in fair plus to good condition.
Sold for £25, British Toy Auctions,
August.
—A boxed Dinky Toys #405 /25Y
Universal Jeep. The model in
green with mid-green hubs, and
black metal windscreen has some
rusting to top of windscreen,
otherwise appears to be in
excellent condition. The model
is housed in a generally good red
and yellow carded picture box
with correct colour spot and pencil
price annotations at ends. Sold for
£30, British Toy Auctions, August.
—Dinky Toys 980 Coles Hydra
Truck 150T, boxed with
instructions. Sold for £60, John
Taylors Auction Rooms, August.
—Dinky Toys 451 Johnston Road
Sweeper, excellent contained in
excellent box. Sold for £45, John
Taylors Auction Rooms, August.
—Dinky Toys 287 Police Accident
Unit van, with box and polices
slow signs, missing cones. Sold for
£50, John Taylors Auction Rooms,
August.
—Corgi 151 Lotus Mark Eleven Le
Mans Racing Car, silver, red seats,
flat spun hubs. Good plus (couple
of small pitting marks on bonnet)
in a generally good blue and yellow
carded picture box. Sold for £60,
Vectis, August.
—Corgi 314 Ferrari Berlinetta 250
Le Mans, red body, blue tinted
windows, chrome interior, wire
wheels. Excellent plus (couple
of small marks on front and rear
edges) in a generally excellent
blue and yellow carded picture box
(couple of small scuffs on edges).
Sold for £70, Vectis, August.
—Corgi 499 Citroen Safari
“Grenoble - 1968 Winter Olympics,
white, mid-blue roof, rear opening
tailgate and interior, spun hubs,
silver trim, 2 x figures, toboggan,
2 x yellow sticks and 1 ski - overall
condition is generally Good Plus
still a bright example in a Good
blue and yellow window box with
pictorial header (cellophane has
splits). Sold for £90, Vectis, August.
—Corgi 447 Ford Thames Ice-
cream Van, blue, cream including
interior, chrome trim, spun hubs.
Good plus to excellent (couple
of small marks on edges), inner
pictorial stand is generally
excellent with correct Ice-Cream
seller and boy figures - outer blue
and yellow carded picture box is
fair (end flaps still complete). Sold
for £140, Vectis, August.
—Corgi GS47 Farm Gift Set to
include Ford 5000 Super Major
Tractor, blue, grey including
plastic hubs. Good plus (does have
some slight wear to decals and
partially broken exhaust) with
working conveyor on trailer -
blue, grey, red, spun hubs (black
rubber belt has some splits), inner
pictorial stand is good plus outer
blue and yellow carded picture box
is poor. Sold for £70, Vectis, August.
—Train G gauge model railways,
six 757-5803 TB coaches in red,
each boxed. Sold for £110, Thomson
Roddick Auctioneers & Valuers,
August.
—Train G gauge model railways,
six 757-5803 TB coaches in blue,
each boxed. Sold for £120, Thomson
Roddick Auctioneers & Valuers,
August.
—Bachmann Liliput G gauge model
railways, two L193501 motorised
tram cars #161 Deutsche
Strassenbahn Gesellschaft in
Dresden, maroon, white and
yellow, L193502 motorised tram
car #69 Berlin Charlottenburger
Strassenbahn, green, white and
yellow and L193505 tram trailer
#576 Deutsche Strassenbahn
Gesellschaft in Dresden,
maroon, white and yellow and
L193507 tram trailer #601 Berlin
Charlottenburger Strassenbahn,
green, white and yellow, each
boxed. Sold for £150, Thomson
Roddick Auctioneers & Valuers,
August.

—Bachmann Big Haulers G gauge
model railways 39-100 motorised
tram car #14 Electrische
Trambahn Munchen, blue, white
and yellow and 39-101 motorised
tram car #112 Stuttgarter
Strassenbahnen Stuttgart blue,
cream and white, both boxed
Sold for £65, Thomson Roddick
Auctioneers & Valuers, August.
—LGB Lehmann Gross Bahn ‘The
Big Train’ by Marklin of Germany,
G gauge model railways 20271
2-6-0T tank locomotive Heidi of the
Rhaetian Railway, RhB-Dampflok,
#11, green and black, boxed.
Sold for £380, Thomson Roddick
Auctioneers & Valuers, August.
—LGB Lehmann Gross Bahn ‘The
Big Train’ by Lehmann of West
Germany, G gauge model railways
20310 Deutche Bahn DB electric
locomotive 101024-8, red and grey,
boxed. Sold for £180, Thomson
Roddick Auctioneers & Valuers,
August.
—LGB Lehmann Gross Bahn ‘The
Big Train’ (Ernst Paul Lehmann
Patent, made in Germany), G
gauge model railways 20390
electric railcar #34 RhB, red
with silver coloured roof, boxed.
Sold for £220, Thomson Roddick
Auctioneers & Valuers, August.
—LGB Lehmann Gross Bahn ‘The
Big Train’ (Ernst Paul Lehmann
Patent, made in Germany), G
gauge model railways 20432
electric railcar RhB Rhatische
Bahn Reichenau-Tamins, #627,
red grey, boxed. Sold for £280,
Thomson Roddick Auctioneers &
Valuers, August.
—LGB Lehmann Gross Bahn ‘The
Big Train’ (Ernst Paul Lehmann
Patent, made in Germany), G
gauge model railways 20590
KOF 6008 Rugensche Kleinbahn
diesel locomotive, black, boxed.
Sold for £240, Thomson Roddick
Auctioneers & Valuers, August.
—LGB Lehmann Gross Bahn ‘The
Big Train’ (Ernst Paul Lehmann
Patent, made in Germany), G
gauge model railways 21812 2-10-
2T steam locomotive 99 7222-5
Deutsche Reichsbahn black,
boxed. Sold for £650, Thomson
Roddick Auctioneers & Valuers,
August.
—LGB Lehmann Gross Bahn
‘The Big Train’ (Gebr Marklin
of Germany), G gauge model
railways DCC 22061 electric
locomotive #702 Rhaetian Bahn,
red, boxed. Sold for £550, Thomson
Roddick Auctioneers & Valuers,
August.
—LGB Lehmann Gross Bahn ‘The
Big Train’ (Ernst Paul Lehmann
Patent, made in Germany), G
gauge model railways 22801
2-6-2T steam locomotive 99 6001
Deutsche Reichsbahn black,
boxed. Sold for £150, Thomson
Roddick Auctioneers & Valuers,
August.
—LGB Lehmann Gross Bahn
‘The Big Train’ (Gebr Marklin
of Germany), G gauge model
railways 23530 DCC 2-6-2 tender
locomotive 114 RhB black, boxed
with figure and sandbags. Sold
for £600, Thomson Roddick
Auctioneers & Valuers, August.
—LGB Lehmann Gross Bahn ‘The
Big Train’ (Ernst Paul Lehmann
Patent, made in Germany), G
gauge model railways 23851
Hanomag Hannover-Linden
locomotive BEGII, black, boxed.
Sold for £320, Thomson Roddick
Auctioneers & Valuers, August.
—LGB Lehmann Gross Bahn ‘The
Big Train’ (Ernst Paul Lehmann
Patent, made in Germany), G
gauge model railways 24420 Lavin
Il Grischun BCU (Bundner Cement
Untervaz) electric locomotive #649
RhB, white with artwork, boxed.
Sold for £190, Thomson Roddick
Auctioneers & Valuers, August.
—LGB Lehmann Gross Bahn ‘The
Big Train’ (Ernst Paul Lehmann
Patent, made in Germany), G
gauge model railways 25420
Grusch electric locomotive ‘Capito
Graubunder Kantonalbank’,
#647, yellow with artwork, boxed.
Sold for £240, Thomson Roddick
Auctioneers & Valuers, August.
—LGB Lehmann Gross Bahn ‘The
Big Train’ (Ernst Paul Lehmann
Patent, made in Germany
c.2003), G gauge model railways
25432 electric locomotive #611
RhB Landquart, green, limited
edition of 1,000 with certificate of
authenticity, boxed. Sold for £350,
Thomson Roddick Auctioneers &
Valuers, August.
—LGB Lehmann Gross Bahn
‘The Big Train’ (Gebr Marklin
of Germany), G gauge model
railways 28439 RhB Ge 4/4
DCC electric locomotive #623
Rhatische Bahn, Graubunden 125
anniversary 1889-2014, boxed.
Sold for £380, Thomson Roddick
Auctioneers & Valuers, August.
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PRICE GUIDE
—Piko G gauge model railways
37540 diesel locomotive
Schmalspur Diesellokomotive BR
199 Harzer Schmalspurbahnen
EpV, HSB 199 892-1 maroon,
boxed. Sold for £110, Thomson
Roddick Auctioneers & Valuers,
August.
—Piko G gauge model railways
37520 diesel locomotive
Diesellokomotive BR 260 DB
EpIV purpurrot, 260-545-9
Deutsche Bahn maroon, and 37607
Umbauwagen BD3yg second class
passenger coach, both boxed.
Sold for £120, Thomson Roddick
Auctioneers & Valuers, August.
—Bachmann Spectrum Master
Railroader Series G gauge
1:20.3 scale narrow gauge model
railways 82494, DCC ready 55
ton three truck Shay locomotive
Oregon Lumber Company #110
black, boxed. Sold for £260,
Thomson Roddick Auctioneers &
Valuers, August.
—Bachmann Aristo Craft Trains
(Polk’s Model Craft Hobbies Inc of
New Jersey) gauge 1 or G gauge
1:29 scale model railways 23203
class 66 diesel locomotive, HGK
DE64 red, boxed. Sold for £400,
Thomson Roddick Auctioneers &
Valuers, August.
—Bachmann Aristo Craft Trains
(Polk’s Model Craft Hobbies Inc
of New Jersey) gauge 1 or G
gauge 1:29 scale model railways
23201 class 66 diesel locomotive
EWS English Welsh and Scottish
Railway 66135, maroon and yellow,
boxed. The loco shows little sign
of use. Sold for £500, Thomson
Roddick Auctioneers & Valuers,
August.
›› YOUR COLLECTION
LEGO Star Wars set number
75094 Imperial Shuttle Tydirium,
within near mint sealed box. Sold
for £90, Vectis, August.
LEGO Star Wars set number
75302 Imperial Shuttle, within near
mint sealed packaging. Sold for
£45, Vectis, August.
LEGO Star Wars set number
75272 Sith TIE Fighter, within near
mint sealed packaging. Sold for
£45, Vectis, August.
LEGO Star Wars set number
75093 Death Star Final Duel,
within near mint sealed packaging.
Sold for £80, Vectis, August.
LEGO Marvel The Infinity
Saga set number 76192 Avengers
Endgame Final Battle, within
near mint sealed box. Sold for £50,
Vectis, August.
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LEGO Marvel Avengers set
number 76125 Iron Man Hall of
Armour, within near mint sealed
packaging. Sold for £45, Vectis,
August.
LEGO Marvel Avengers
set number 76153 Avengers
Helicarrier, within mint sealed
packaging. Sold for £70, Vectis,
August.
LEGO Friends TV series set
number 21319, within near mint
sealed packaging. Sold for £50,
Vectis, August.
LEGO Architecture set number
21045 Trafalgar Square, within
near mint sealed box. Sold for £80,
Vectis, August.
LEGO Architecture set number
21045 Trafalgar Square, within
near mint sealed box. Sold for £60,
Vectis, August.
LEGO Creator set number 10266
NASA Apollo 11 Lunar Lander,
within near mint sealed packaging.
Sold for £70, Vectis, August.
LEGO Ghostbusters set number
LEGO Star Wars set number
21108 Ecto-1, within excellent
sealed box. Sold for £70, Vectis,
75217 Imperial Conveyex
Transport, within near mint sealed
August.
packaging. Sold for £100, Vectis,
August.
LEGO Doctor Who set number
21304, within near mint sealed
packaging. Sold for £120, Vectis, LEGO Star Wars set number
August. 75054 AT-AT, within near mint
sealed box. Sold for £120, Vectis,
August.
LEGO F.R.I.E.N.D.S TV series
Central Perk set 21319, within near
mint sealed packaging. Sold for
£70, Vectis, August. LEGO Star Wars UCS set
number 75341 Luke Skywalker’s
Landspeeder, within near mint
sealed box. Sold for £140, Vectis,
August.
LEGO Harry Potter set The
Monster Book of Monsters set
number 30628, within near mint
sealed box. Sold for £40, Vectis,
August. LEGO Star Wars set number
75059 Sandcrawler, within near
mint sealed box. Sold for £360,
Vectis, August.
LEGO Technic 42114 6x6 Volvo
Articulated Hauler Tipper Truck,
with instruction booklets generally
excellent but not checked for LEGO Star Wars set number
completeness in a good opened 10236 Ewok Village, within near
box. Sold for £90, Vectis, August. mint sealed packaging. Sold for
£360, Vectis, August.
LEGO factory set 10183
Hobby Trains, box is open, LEGO 75181 Star Wars Ultimate
contents have not been checked Collector Series UCS - Y-Wing Star
for completeness. Appears in Fighter, within a excellent plus
generally good condition. Sold for
£130, Vectis, August.
sealed box. Sold for £300, Vectis,
August.
 PRICE GUIDE

Palitoy Palitoy Action

Man vintage
Action Man
vintage Action
VINTAGE Australian Jungle
Soldier 34262
Bazooka Set,
ACTION MAN Fighter, brown
painted head
excellent plus RESULTS figure with metal
dog tag, with
on an excellent
plus backing uniform, campaign
card in a good hat, Victoria
sealed bag. Cross medal,
Sold for £60, flamethrower,
Vectis, August. Palitoy Palitoy Action Man vintage entrenching tool, knives. Good plus
Action Man Scramble Pilot, ark brown painted to excellent unboxed. Sold for £100,
vintage Navy head figure with grey jumpsuit, Vectis, August.
Palitoy Action metal dog tag, orange life vest,
Man vintage Attack, blond
painted head clipboard, yellow life raft with
Action Soldier anchor and paddle, various other
34228 Engineer figure with
outfit, orange items of equipment. Good to
Surveyor, excellent plus unboxed. Sold for
excellent to life vest,
yellow and £100, Vectis, August.
excellent plus on
a good backing red flags,
card in mostly searchlight,
sealed bag (small Navy machine gun and ammo
hole to bottom box. Excellent to excellent plus
edge). Sold for £190, Vectis, August. unboxed. Sold for £80, Vectis,
August.
Palitoy
Palitoy Action Man vintage
Action Man Palitoy Famous British Uniforms, 34127
vintage Action Man The Royal Horse Guards “The
Construction vintage Blues” comprising plumed helmet,
Engineer, Landing Signal tunic, breeches, jack boots, spurs,
blond Officer, black Palitoy Action Man vintage Air waist belt, cartouche box and belt,
painted head painted head Police, blond painted head figure gauntlet, sword and scabbard,
figure with figure with with metal dog tag, with blue cellophane and backing card box.
metal dog metal dog tag, uniform, white “A.P.” helmet, field Generally good but does have
tag, outfit jumpsuit, flags, phone and case, white truncheon splits to top and bottom of end
including gloves with jackhammer, clipboard and and belt, carbine rifle plus pistol. flaps. Sold for £280, Vectis, August.
pick axe, shovel and detonator set. green goggles Good plus to excellent plus
Excellent to excellent plus. Sold for with black unboxed. Sold for £110, Vectis,
£90, Vectis, August. outline. Good August.
plus to excellent unboxed. Sold for
Palitoy
£110, Vectis, August.
Action Man
vintage
Medic, dark
brown painted
head figure
with outfit and
helmet, arm
bands, blood
transfusion Palitoy Action Man vintage
kit, stretcher, Soldier, blond flock head figure
metal dog tag. Excellent to with gripping hands, beret, jersey,
excellent plus unboxed. Sold for Palitoy Action Man vintage muffler, trousers, waist belt,
£90, Vectis, August. British Infantry, brown painted SLR rifle. Excellent to excellent
Palitoy Action Man vintage head figure with metal dog tag, plus with original card box “Now
Palitoy Action Action Sailor Navy Frogman Set, uniform with medal, shoulder With Gripping Hands”, together
Man vintage comprising 3-piece rubber suit, bag, gas mask, Sten submachine with star card, instructions and
Action Sailor, light swim fins, face mask, air cylinders, gun. Excellent to excellent plus dressing cup - good to excellent.
brown painted knife, scabbard, wrist depth gauge, unboxed. Sold for £90, Vectis, Sold for £120, Vectis, August.
head figure with dynamite and equipment manual. August.
metal dog tag, All generally excellent plus or
uniform, white better on a fair to good backing
belt, hat and rifle, card (generally sealed and free
cream truncheon. from oxidisation), collector stars
Generally good to are replacements. Sold for £420,
excellent unboxed. Vectis, August.
Sold for £70, Vectis, August.
Palitoy
Action Man
vintage
Breeches Boy,
dark brown
painted head Palitoy Action Man vintage “Red
figure with Palitoy Action Man vintage Devil” Parachutist with Working
metal dog tag, German Stormtrooper, black Parachute 34121, comprising
oilskin jacket painted head figure with metal jumpsuit, helmet, parachute,
and trousers, dog tag, uniform with iron cross parachute pack, reserve pack
Palitoy Action Man Vintage breeches medal, grenades, Luger pistol and (parachute not included), goggles,
34720 105mm Light Gun, good plus boy and pulley, flare pistol and holster, 9mm Schmeisser. Good to boots. Excellent to near mint on
with instruction leaflet, in a good signal light. Good to excellent excellent (some damage to hands) a good plus to excellent sealed
slightly crushed at one end card plus unboxed. Sold for £70, Vectis, unboxed. Sold for £150, Vectis, backing card, superb example.
box. Sold for £110, Vectis, August. August. August. Sold for £180, Vectis, August.

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ToyStories
T
he internet may be
a great place to look
up images and find
the latest info on
collectables, but let’s
face it, you can’t beat the printed
word. Well, I’m biased of course
but then I would be writing this
wouldn’t I? I’m also possibly
showing my age, but we won’t go
into that. So, what has brought
all this on? Well, I came across
a haul of early price guides the
other week that’s what. They
were all small softbacks on Dinky,
Matchbox, Spot-On and Corgi all
dating from around 1980. They
took me right back to when I
started collecting which was
around then. I recalled too that
there was precious little in print
at the time around collecting toys,
so I seized on anything I came
across. Pre-internet this was the
only way to acquire knowledge
on the subject, what was made
and a rough idea of value. Getting
nostalgic about books about, well,
nostalgia? It was an odd feeling.
I still have many of the books
to this day and it’s surprising how
useful many still are, considering
Read all about it, with Ed Karswell.
the amount of new information
that has come to light since.
Mike and Sue Richardson’s
The Great Book of Dinky Toys,
Patrick Trench’s Model Cars &
Road Vehicles and my personal
favourite, The Price Guide to
Metal Toys by Gordon Gardiner
and Alistair Morris still adorn
the shelves. The Price Guide to
Metal Toys was practically unique
in that it featured toys the way
collectors often found them in,
from play worn and incomplete
to mint and boxed. I still dip into
it now and again as it shows many
models in their loft found state as
opposed to today when just about
everything has passed through at
least one collector’s hands.
It’s easy to scoff at what some
may see as the naivety expressed
in these early publications, with
a few featuring some fairly
didactive statements in lieu of
hard facts. I however see these
writers as the pioneers of the
hobby, willing to stick their
necks out and join the dots as
it were. Some haven’t really
been surpassed in many ways;
Sue Richardson’s Minic (Lines
Bros. Tinplate Vehicles) from
1981 features details that seem
to have become lost knowledge
among collectors. Just look up
the comments on the petrol cans
fitted to the early cars to see why.
There had been two great toy
books early on, one being Cecil
Gibson’s History of Dinky Toys
1934-64 and David Pressland’s
The Art of the Tin Toy. Each one
planting a flag in the ground for
following collectors. Gibson’s
book from the mid 60s was
published at a time when the adult
collecting of toy cars would have
been seen as decidedly odd by the
wider public. It’s also interesting
to note that much of the nostalgia
was for models barely 25 years
old in some cases, which shows
how things have changed.
As mentioned earlier, it may
also be my age, but it feels more
permissible to flick through a book
for an hour or so than stare at a
screen. It must be also borne in
mind that the internet is no more
factually correct than print, and
no it’s not my age! There are still
gaps in our collecting knowledge
and it’s the more obscure
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manufacturers that suffer when
it comes to seeing them in print.
Some individuals such as Robert
Newson have sought to address
this issue utilising detective skills
surely worthy of Poirot.
I also find that some of the old
certainties get quashed by new
discoveries. I find this keeps
my interest alive and makes me
want to join in the quest for more
answers.
Living where I do, I’m fortunate
to have several excellent second-
hand bookshops local to me and
they regularly stock titles on
vintage toys and collectibles. They
are usually priced at little more
than a monthly glossy magazine so
good value for money. While I’m in
there I also find vintage annuals,
transport and film books for
which, apparently, keep me there
for an inordinate amount of time!
Well, that’s enough of my
rambling, the family are all out
and I have a hallway to decorate.
Before that though, I think I’ll
have a flick through this book. I
haven’t read this one for a while
so I may just have a quick cuppa
and a biscuit... CG
›› MEET THE CLUB
The Spring meeting at Baginton Village Hall.
The Midlands
Meccano Guild
Ann Evans gets out and about to visit model and collectors clubs up and down the country.
Photos by Rob Tysall
T
his month we
meet the Midland
Meccano Guild,
which was formed
in 1967 and recognised as
being one of the earliest
Meccano clubs around. The
club has its headquarters in
Baginton Village Hall on the
outskirts of Coventry. They
run two major exhibitions
a year – one in March, the
other in October plus other
events during the year. This
year for example, they were
also at the British Motor
Museum, Gaydon in July.
Collectors Gazette
went along to their last
meeting in Baginton to
find the hall packed with
tables displaying all kinds
of Meccano creations
and working models. The
place was buzzing with
atmosphere as members
chatted to old friends and
talked about their latest
projects.
We bumped into the club
President Jim Gamble, who
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is a founder member and
something of an authority on
Meccano. You can read an
article by him on those early
days on the Club’s website.
We also caught up
with Chairman George
Illingworth who pointed
out that a good thing about
Meccano is that anyone can
enjoy it – from toddlers to
granddads, and it’s not just
for boys, girls and women
enjoy it too. It’s a toy that
can be used over and over
again, building working
models then dismantling
them to make something
new. He pointed out too that
making working models
teaches young people about
engineering, electrics,
design and construction.
Roger Marriott the
Secretary of the MMG
was his very helpful self,
organising Rob and my
visit. Roger is also editor
of the club’s full colour
glossy Bulletin and author
of the book, Meccano
(Shire Library Series). He
makes sure that he features
everyone who exhibits at
the shows in the Bulletin,
highlighting their project or
interest. He said that they
welcome new members –
whether their passion is for
building Meccano models,
or they prefer to collect
Meccano sets and revel
in finding old parts and
collectables associated with
the hobby.
It was good to meet up
again with Treasurer John
Nuttall and many of the
club’s 110 members who had
come from all around the
Midlands and further afield.
The Meccano creations
they’d brought with them
ranged from large to small ABOVE
– structures, bridges and A close up of the Meccano mousetrap.
buildings, all modes of
transport – trains, boats intricate working clocks, interest in what other people
and planes as well as buses gearboxes and other were doing.
and lorries and everything contraptions! The whole Most people who are
in between. There were atmosphere of the get interested in toys will know
working fairgrounds lit up together was one of cheerful that the inventor of Meccano
with lights and music to camaraderie and genuine was Liverpool-born Frank

ABOVE
Left to right: Roger Marriott, Jim Gamble, George Illingworth and John Nuttall.
Hornby – who also invented
the toy train set, the Dinky
toy and Scalextric. He
began by making toys
to amuse his own three
children. In January 1901,
just a few days before the
death of Queen Victoria,
Frank Hornby patented
his invention making it
the last great Victorian
invention. Its original name
was Mechanics Made Easy.
The name Meccano was
registered in 1907.
Meccano as a toy is a
real icon, teaching basic
engineering principles
to children for well
over 100 years. And
there’s no shortage of
imagination when it comes
to constructing Meccano
creations, and of course,
as was pointed out many
times, should the builder get
bored with his creation, he
can simply take it apart and
build something else.
In the recent past,
as with most clubs, the
Covid lockdown put paid
to any get togethers, so
people turned to online
virtual meet ups and
conversations. Lockdown
and the cancellation of their
usual pastimes reminded
some people of interests
from their childhood and
sent them delving into
the attic to find their old
Meccano collection and
soon realised that building
Meccano was still a great
hobby. Once Lockdown was
over people joined their
local clubs.
One gentleman making
his first visit to the Midlands
Meccano Guild was Dick
who hadn’t looked at his
ABOVE
Paul Merrick with his game of
Mousetrap.
forgotten Meccano sets
for 60 years. “I moved on
to model aircraft and my
Meccano got put up in the
loft,” he said. “I’d acquired
bits over the years so when
Covid started I brought my
old Meccano down and got
back into it. I did a lot of
looking around online and
found the Midland Meccano
Guild which wasn’t too far
away, as I’m from Pershore,
Worcestershire.
“At home I do model
engineering and model
aircraft, so making this
train – a 4-4-0 locomotive
and tender from Set 10 -
was a very challenging
project. I got it finished just
last night! Since coming to
this club, I’ve found it very
interesting, and the people
are friendly. I think it’s a
good thing to be part of a
club like this.”
At the opposite end of the
scale, John Ozer-Key has
been a member for around
20 years. He had created,
and brought along, a 4-speed
COLLECTIONS
ABOVE
Such detail goes into Meccano models.
Epicylic Gearbox! “It was
very difficult to make this,”
said John. “There was a lot
of head scratching and trial
and error!”
He was another to
appreciate the fact that
being a part of this club ABOVE
allowed him to meet Completed model of Capital Building.
people that he wouldn’t
normally see. He added,
“You swap ideas, you buy
more parts, and you can
sell items. And after an
event like this you always
pick up tips. I imagine a lot
of engineers played with
Meccano as children. I’m
not an engineer but I always
wanted to do this and find
out how to do it.”
It was clear that Meccano
fans like to challenge
themselves with large and
complicated projects with
intricate working parts.
Member John Hornsby for
example had brought along ABOVE
part of his Steam Derrick – Newcomer Dick with his first Meccano project in 60 years.
a bogie for his Joseph Booth
62-ton Steam Derrick – the
model he’s making being
around 5ft tall.
Another member that we
chatted to was Paul Merrick
who had built a Meccano
model of the ‘Mousetrap’
game. He used an Arduino
with 8 motors and a few
sensors, also ball bearings
rather than marbles as they
run better, and a lift to bring
them back up to the top. He ABOVE ABOVE
also had flash LEDs as the Greg Worwood with his John Ozer-Key with his 4-speed
mouse is caught. fairground ride. Epicylic Gearbox.
Every stand had
something of interest
on display, and the club
members were more
Further details...
New members are always welcomed so get in touch if you
than happy to discuss the
want to join their Midlands Meccano Guild. Visit
intricacies of what went into http://mmg.ssofb.co.uk/ for more informatiom
building their model. CG
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›› TREASURE HUNTING
Oz
H
i folks! I’m pleased to
say that my brilliant
new knee is doing
well and I’m back
out on the search
for goodies, as eager as ever but
very much slower off the mark!
It’s just great to be out bargain
hunting once again, being laid up
for those few months has made
me realise just how much I miss
being out there buying.
You seldom find much for a
pound these days (even in the
pound shops!) so I was more
than happy to hand over a quid
for one of those old enamel
swimming proficiency badges
they used to hand out to kids
who were learning to swim. It’s
something I would never have
been presented with myself as I
always hated swimming, usually
being relegated to a corner of
the shallow end with all the no
hopers who didn’t like that awful
chlorinated water in their eyes!
The badge was the much coveted
Gold Standard example which is
a bit rarer than the bronze and
silver versions. I’m told that the
one to look for is the next one up
which was ‘Honours’ and they
reckon these can fetch really good
money so I’ll keep searching.
The good old Ever-Ready
U2 battery is somewhat of an
iconic object in the world of
toy collecting, having powered
endless numbers of battery
powered toys. Being a child who
grew up in the 1960s battery power
took toys to another dimension
in terms of play value, whether
powering boats, bulldozers or
robots. So another pound coin
was happily handed over for an
old Ever-ReadyU2 battery that
was discovered during a recent
house clearance… a lovely bit of
nostalgia for my collection.
42 • October 2023 ›› www.ccofgb.co.uk
bsolete Our monthly gaze into the weird but wonderful world of
collector/dealer Obsolete Oz. Buying and selling since the
1970s, Oz has developed a great knack for unearthing some
amazing finds from flea markets, antique fairs, car boot sales,
I had to dig a bit deeper into
my wallet to bag a great little
Empire toffee tin which seemed
a great buy for twenty quid. It’s
always nice when you find a tin
that you have never seen before
and this one is definitely one
for the collection. The British
Empire Exhibition was held at
Wembley in 1924.
Another recent find that
generated yet more nostalgia was
a button badge advertising Sugar
Puffs which looked to date from the
1960s and was bagged for a couple
of pounds. The train on the badge
looked very similar to one of those
big heavy metal Tri-ang trains.
Sadly we were never allowed to
have sugar puffs when we were
kids as they were far too expensive
according to our dear mother!
The best bargain buy of the
month has to be a Corgi Toy
Bedford tipper which was fished
out from a box of metal toys in a
second hand charity shop, where
all metal toys are always priced
at 49p... no matter what they are
or how old they are! Naturally I
keep a keen eye on this box which
has turned up some great little
bargains over the past year or so.
Still on the subject of diecast
toys another interesting tipper,
this time from the Matchbox Toy
stable, soon found a new owner
who was willing to hand over a
crispy new ten pound note to
own it. It always seemed a bit
odd that this chunky Mack
earth shifter was deemed
suitable to be fitted with
Superfast wheels but I guess
anything went when Lesney
was desperately trying to hang
on to its once strong market
in the USA. The yellow used for
this truck is interesting as it has
a kind of green tinge to it. When
originally released in 1968 as 28d
rubbish skips and even the local tip.
it was orange with black tyres.
Husky Toys were never really
big favourites of mine as a kid
but I appreciate them a lot more
these days and so it seems to a lot
of other toy collectors. Always the
poor relation to Lesney’s 1-75’s
and a mainstay of Woolworth’s
stores, you really have to admire
some of the toys Husky produced.
A Husky that soon found a new
home was a nice Guy Warrior
tanker in the bright yellow
and white livery of Shell. With
independent suspension to all six
wheels these inexpensive diecasts
certainly were good value for
money. Again, like the Matchbox
tipper, the tanker sold for a
tenner. I’d love to find one in mint
condition complete with original
blister pack.
A Deltic diesel-electric
locomotive enamel badge,
originally sold to raise funds
for the St Christopher’s Railway
Servants Orphanage, was snapped
up quickly for fifteen pounds. It
was still attached to its original
backing card.
BELOW
This Matchbox Volks-Dragon
was sold to a young collector
eager to develop a collection of
Superfast models.
A Matchbox Superfast
Volkswagen Beetle ‘Volks-
Dragon’ dating from 1971 sold
for £6 to a young collector with
a passion for Superfast toys. It
looks very similar to the Hot
Wheels Hot Rod Beetle, some
of which have commanded huge
sums of money of late. The
great thing about most of the
Superfast models is that you can
still unearth them at reasonable
prices from boot sales and
charity shops.
Last, but certainly not least,
a terrific little cardboard milk
bottle top attracted a collector
willing to hand over a fiver for it,
simply because it showed a little
girl happily speeding along in her
pedal car. It dated from the 1940s
and is one of the most attractive
milk bottle tops I have ever found.
Well that’s about all for yet
another month folks. Happy
hunting for what is left of a very
wet and windy summer and, as
always, be lucky. More of my
recent finds will be revealed next
month! CG
 IN-DEPTH

LEFT BELOW
Promoting road safety this old cardboard Re-launched as a Superfast model the
milk bottle top shows a lovely scene of a Mack dumper truck first appeared in
little girl in her pedal car. the Matchbox range in 1968.

ABOVE
Despite reviving memories of his dreaded swimming
experiences, Oz still splashed out one pound for this gold
standard swimming proficiency badge.

ABOVE
ABOVE
Sold at the British Empire Exhibition of 1924
Given away to children to promote Sugar Puffs
these old toffee tins are hard to find today.
this button badge dates from the 1960s.

LEFT
Where would we have been without the good
old Ever-Ready U2 battery? This nostalgic
old battery sits well alongside Oz’s battery
RIGHT powered toys.
Whatxx

ABOVE
This pleasing little Shell Guy Warrior petrol tanker
was issued in the 1960s in the Husky Toy series sold
extensively in Woolworth’s stores.

LEFT
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ABOVE
ABOVE A little play worn but hat a bargain
One of the many locomotive badges sold to raise money for for a mere 49p. Amazingly the wing
St Christopher’s Railway Servants Orphanage. mirrors are still intact.

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