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10 minutes ago, flat4alfa said:

Ah well, now you say the asking price...  no

There were a just over a hundred cars but realistically I’m not going to bust someone’s balls whose selling their childhood collection off. If they were asking a ton or so then there would be a drink in it lets say for the cars but I did say I was happy to make an offer for the cars alone and left it with them. Perhaps I should have just gone ‘best price 2nite m8 swop 4 hot wheels’. But I’m not a twat like that so.

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52 minutes ago, bunglebus said:

Because this

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Ah..  That looks familiar....

Here is a Lucky Toys one almost identical in plastic.  Came in the very same Camping Rally Boat set that Dolly and Ken arrived in

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You know what this means don't you.  You need to source a Dolly and Ken!  And a tent.

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Definitely an autumnal nip to the air this morning...

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And the change in the weather seems to have brought a load of Days Gone to the market, for some reason.

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Probably no correlation, mind.

Beautiful display case is beautiful.

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I wasn't aware that Corgi had put together a Morris Minor Collection, let alone one that justified its own case, but apparently so.

Although it's Days Gone all the way here (lose yourself in passionate nostalgia for, erm, a collection of Walkers Crisps vans in various - albeit wholly fictitious - liveries), bar the lone MoY lorry, and some of those 1980s Hong Kong vintage cars beloved of discount stores (possibly made by Summer, though I didn't check).

Not that there weren't some Corgi Classics Minors on the stall, though...

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Complete Corgi range represented here - saloon, convertible with top up and down, Traveller, van, and pick-up.

Rogue Saico Trav in around 1/36 scale joined by a smaller-scale Lledo Vanguard version. Boxes in good nick; £5 each asked for these.

More boxed Corgis...

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Omnipresent Thorneycroft van (used extensively for Corgi's expanding Promotionals range from the mid-80s), plus a less common Renault bottle truck; and a further reappearance of that oh-so-brown Renault 12/16, which is a limited edition 1985 reissue of the 1950s original.

Unfortunately, it has all the appeal of a severe bout of gastric flu, which is probably why it's still kicking around the stall after 18 months or so.

A few more boxed oddities:

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Another anachronistically painted Thorneycroft, with a Brumm Fiat Topolino van above it, and an ERTL (?) Ford T van, topped off with a modern Humvee atrocity.

No-name 1/43 Jaguar MkII in horrid yellowed plastic packaging was also on the stall:

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Maroon paint + matt black roof = Inspector Morse cash-in, I daresay (and yup, I understand the car used in the series was a Daimler, but this one states Jaguar on the base - it's a comedy of errors all the way, this morning).

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Mmm, Corgi trams and an 80s-issue AEC in Eastbourne colours. And more DGs.

And more trams!

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And more buses.

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Fiver each on these, I believe.

But - there were some tat crates on the stall today, for the first time in a long time.

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Lots of fecked MoYs and scratched DGs evidenced, but also...

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The Corgi Whizzwheels Muira missing its headlight moulding is one I'm sure I've seen before; maybe a year or so ago. Lesney bulldozer is missing its tracks (of course) but otherwise not bad.

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Whizzwheels Porsche Carrera 6 is in ok nick too; though in gaining the plastic speedwheels, apparently the driver included in the earlier rubber-tyre version was made redundant.

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Matchbox Speed Kings Bertone Runabout also not terrible:

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Usually these seem to suffer damage to the windshield and the sticker, but other than some paint chips this one looks pretty fresh.

Not so much of interest in the second box:

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Maisto promotionals from the Shell range were represented by the MGR; while the Matchbox Dinky E-Type suffered from a lamentable lack of tyres; and some tatty Lesney commercials nestled amongst the DG and MoY rubbish.

On the table, display skillz were MAD:

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Some genuine rubbish going on here, but let's have a sift:

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Corgi Scanotron in ok shape - this one features a tilting cab, rotating 'scanner', reciprocating 'cutter' on the front, and a magnifying glass.

They forgot to tell us why, though.

Siku Mercedes Actros had some suspension issues, but still stands ok:

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While the demountable forklift in the foreground below was also a Siku item, and although no trailer was in evidence, the two items may be linked.

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MoY plastic display diorama at the back was one I oddly coveted as a kid, even though it's kind of a bit rubbish.

EFE Mercedes simply referred to on the base as 'Hoppa Bus'.

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Austin A35 is badged as a Corgi item, albeit with very little detail on it - and not one I remember seeing in Corgi packaging at the time. Unsure if it's a post-takeover development of the Lledo Vanguards version?

All slightly chipped, BUT all the loose bits and pieces here seem to be priced around the £2 mark.

And who could resist the charms of this Model T van/ desk tidy?

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Apparently everyone, as this has definitely popped up before on the stall, more than once.

Show all the guys and gals in the office that you're a person of rare taste and discernment with this exquisite* item.

Other stuff on the stall included this mahoosive New Bright fire engine (approx. 3ft long):

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It seems like the sort of thing that kids tend to receive on Christmas morning from someone who conveniently doesn't have to live in the same house as them, and which mysteriously 'breaks' whenever Daddy has a 'look' at it around 8pm on Christmas Night - after a solid 14 hours of 160-decibel sirens and strobing lights...

Also some vintage plastic boxed boats: a Palitoy Bermudan racing yacht...

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"Gracefully streamlined... For the junior yachtsman" - well, indeed.

And quite a nice clockwork powered Tri-ang motor lifeboat.

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Not sure of the asking price here; they're not really my bag. But lovely, nonetheless

Finally, another big (Tri-ang?) tinplate fire truck:

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And no Friday would be complete without a pic of you-know-who (blue trainers today).

Not a lot was in evidence elsewhere - Paddy's still inexplicably failing to find buyers for his optimistically ticketed diecast wares, while Charity Bloke was also only good for Days Gone buses today, much to my disappointment.

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Though he did have a hubcap for a Morris Minor.

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And a vintage Sanyo boom-box, apparently in perfect working order.

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But I know my knackers would be a necklace by the end of the day if I trundled home with that under my arm, so instead I just got myself a coffee, and then slipped off into the hazy morning chill by the river...

A very good Friday to all.

 

Oh, and all paid-up Tat Boxes were posted out earlier this week - so if you're expecting something from me, then today should be the day for touchdown...

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3 hours ago, flat4alfa said:

He looks quite despondent in that photo.

He didn't buy anything today. Possibly Mrs Nemesis has been giving him an earful, or maybe he only likes the pre-1970 stuff...

3 hours ago, flat4alfa said:

Scanotron is interesting and could sit with the Rocketron here, but probably not for a fiver

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Loose stuff seemed to only be £1 or £2 - only the boxed stuff was a fiver this week.

It's certainly a curio, but not one that would sit all that well with my other Corgi bits and pieces...

3 hours ago, bunglebus said:

That's cool as penguin piss - and increasing in value all the time. You know you want to, put your hat on backwards and do some spins on a bit of lino stolen from your mum's bathroom

For £20, I was certainly tempted - but tragically that's the same leap of logic that landed me with about seventeen turntables a few years ago, and in the end they wound up on Freecycle just to clear the space...

I'm not really very good at self-moderation, it has to be said.

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8 hours ago, RoadworkUK said:

Crikey, it's Tat Friday and I almost totally forgot. Actually glad I did – after seeing that sailing boat I might have done something silly. Hopefully it's up for ££££ so as to be safely beyond my magpie "want it" tendencies. 

Generally the older, boxed stuff like this tends to command an asking price of £25 - £35: kinda outside my impulse-buy comfort zone, and possibly yours too. Maybe that helps!

Since they rarely come back again the next week, I think someone must be shelling out for them...

He did offer me the truly shit-looking boxed Palitoy  train set for a tenner, but it was awful. And broken.

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Presumably someone did put their hand in their pocket for it, though... 

8 hours ago, Rover414 said:

The EFE Mercs if cheap enough are always worth grabbing, such a nice casting.

They were a bit chipped, sadly, but certainly lovely little things - and I'm a sucker for stuff with the Badgerline livery.

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