Shite in Miniature II

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Guess what arrived from ebay yesterday.

Yep. A Corgi car transporter Way more than 6 qiud .

 

That's unfortunate . This is also for sale for £5.  The thread doesn't run through the body of the model like it should. 

 

[Christine]

I want it , now

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I want it , now

 

ha, ok, now might be a bit tricky!

[Christine]

All I have left of my Priestman     I loved that toy ....   I lost a track ,whilst digging in the garden , and spent days that turned into weeks , looking for it, never did find it 

 

Egg wanna swap for all of these  Superking crane, tyre loose,    corgi forklift ,  and P38 range rover ,made in China?

 

 

 

 

 

 

[Christine]

Mercrocker , revisited the loft !  This is the one,  tatty box ..

 

 

 

 

 

Bought a new whitemetal tailgate for my transporter , fits... sort of....

 

 

 

[egg]

All I have left of my Priestman     I loved that toy ....   I lost a track ,whilst digging in the garden , and spent days that turned into weeks , looking for it, never did find it 

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Egg wanna swap for all of these  Superking crane, tyre loose,    corgi forklift ,  and P38 range rover ,made in China?

 

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Sounds like a deal, I'll PM you.

[Christine]

Take it off the market 

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This Dinky I might not be selling cheaply, is this a bit rare? Dinky 431? Someone shatter my illusions.

 

 

 

 

[AndyW201]

Still need to shift some diecast.

 

Solido 205, mint, boxed, the red side strip and tail flash decals have been fitted.

£7 posted.

 

 

Toyota Corolla T Sport, lhs door mirror missing and crack in clear plastic case.

£7 posted

 

 

Vanguards mk1 Fiesta XR2. Brand new, only got out for the pics. RHD. Examples are currently up for strong money on ebay, looking for £22 posted.

[Vantman]

This Dinky I might not be selling cheaply, is this a bit rare? Dinky 431? Someone shatter my illusions.

 

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They seem to be advertised for strong money,but do they sell? Yours looks nice and 'playworn'.

[egg]

It's battered about, not in the best of condition! Probably my uncle/me/my brother all having fun with it years ago...

[RayMK]

This Dinky I might not be selling cheaply, is this a bit rare? Dinky 431? Someone shatter my illusions.

 

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I'm thoroughly confused by the 'what's it worth' assessments.  Before eBay, my old playworn 2nd hand Dinky lorries from the immediately pre and post war period were selling for about £30 each at toy fairs.  Now, I doubt that they'd make a tenner each.  Fortunately, I'm not selling. I bought them from an Oxfam shop in Southsea for 3d each in 1961.

 

Edit: Thinking about it, it may not have been Oxfam.  It was a small toy shop on Highland Road near the cemetery.  It had a glass case in the entrance which displayed a few 2nd hand toys.

[Split_Pin]

Still need to shift some diecast.

 

Solido 205, mint, boxed, the red side strip and tail flash decals have been fitted.

£7 posted.

 

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Toyota Corolla T Sport, lhs door mirror missing and crack in clear plastic case.

£7 posted

 

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Vanguards mk1 Fiesta XR2. Brand new, only got out for the pics. RHD. Examples are currently up for strong money on ebay, looking for £22 posted.

I'll take the Corolla please. I am paid on Friday, is it ok to wait until then? I will fire over the dosh first thing Friday morning.

[Split_Pin]

I'm thoroughly confused by the 'what's it worth' assessments. Before eBay, my old playworn 2nd hand Dinky lorries from the immediately pre and post war period were selling for about £30 each at toy fairs. Now, I doubt that they'd make a tenner each. Fortunately, I'm not selling. I bought them from an Oxfam shop in Southsea for 3d each in 1961.

 

Edit: Thinking about it, it may not have been Oxfam. It was a small toy shop on Highland Road near the cemetery. It had a glass case in the entrance which displayed a few 2nd hand toys.

When I first started buying at Swapmeets at the end of the 1980s, Dinky and Corgi items from the 1950s to the early 1970s were all the rage. Around £90 to £100 was the norm for an example which was mint and boxed but of no particular rarity. Thankfully I could still afford restorable examples at about £3 to £4.

 

Nowadays though, the former remain on the stallholders' tables for sometimes years, and there is little interst in the latter. I think its because the collectors of these pieces are all getting older and passing away.

 

Rarer 1/24 Bburagos and Polistils, especially boxed, mint and boxed Superfast/kings, Majorettes, Guisval/Guiloy, Sikus, Norev and other makes from the 1970s and 1980s are now commanding strong money due to the audience moving into their 30s and 40s and being able to replace the toys of their youth or have the ones which their pocket money didn't stretch to when they were children.

 

Whilst I love my inherited Dinky and Corgi Collection from my Dad and 2 Uncles, I sold off most of the similar items which I had bought myself about 30 years ago and lacked that sentimental value of the family heirlooms. The only cars from this batch which I kept were those which were relevant to my youth from the early 1980s such as Triumphs 1300 and 2000 and a Renault 16.

[AndyW201]

I'll take the Corolla please. I am paid on Friday, is it ok to wait until then? I will fire over the dosh first thing Friday morning.

Not a problem Iain, I'll put your name on it.

[Split_Pin]

Not a problem Iain, I'll put your name on it.

Ideal, could you PM me your Paypal detaiks please?

[Christine]

Minichamps Agila £15  posted ? swaps?

 

 

Burago   big Range Rover ! box is a bit tatty £ 15 posted ? swaps?

 

 

 

Touring car Fiesta mk1  swap for xr2   or the yellow Festival version  ? £18 posted

 

 

[mercrocker]

Mercrocker , revisited the loft !  This is the one,  tatty box ..

 

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Are you up for selling that?  If so 'ow much, like?

[Christine]

Jetta !

 

 

 

Big 109 Land Rover  

 

 

 

Another Land Rover 

 

 

 

and another

 

 

 

 

[Christine]

And another circus  Land Rover and caravan

 

 

 

and a Dinky Mercedes coach

 

 

 

 

 

One for Beko !

 

[Junkman]

Sod the model kits thread. They pushed it in the off section, hence it's doomed.

 

So I post this here instead.

 

 

It's missing the chrome sprue.

Does anyone of you have a mid Seventies Revell TFD kicking about he wants to get rid of?

[mercrocker]

Reckon we just post any further kit-related stuff on this thread....Its shite and its miniature.

[quicksilver]

The problem with Dinky was illustrated at the show I went to yesterday. In the gift shop was a mint boxed Atlas reproduction Leyland Octopus for £20. Just outside was a stall with a genuine Dinky, boxed but quite chipped, and it was marked up at £70. To the casual collector, the repro would display better, is a fraction of the price and hardly anyone would know it wasn't original so why buy the real one? That guy's stall was full of Dinky toys but I didn't see him sell anything all day. I guess it's an age thing - that event was mostly full of young families who have no attraction to stuff that old.

[sierraman]

Bought a Matchbox Iveco Artic Ferrari Transporter today, £1.50 and it’s still got the deflector on the roof. Bargain there as these are seeing a tenner all day long now.

[mercrocker]

The problem with Dinky was illustrated at the show I went to yesterday. In the gift shop was a mint boxed Atlas reproduction Leyland Octopus for £20. Just outside was a stall with a genuine Dinky, boxed but quite chipped, and it was marked up at £70. To the casual collector, the repro would display better, is a fraction of the price and hardly anyone would know it wasn't original so why buy the real one? That guy's stall was full of Dinky toys but I didn't see him sell anything all day. I guess it's an age thing - that event was mostly full of young families who have no attraction to stuff that old.

 

I guess you are right but there is no room in my house for this Atlas stuff, to me its just like "buying" an MP3 file instead of a shellac 78.   The demographic of Dinky collectors is definitely changing but I am wondering if the Atlas gear will, at least in time, create a resurgence of interest in the real toys.  Otherwise as you rightly say the originals are gradually going to become unsaleable.   Serves people right for buying them as "investments" in my book - maybe the whole thing will shift back to genuine enthusiasts and I can afford some of the ones I still want!

[Pillock]

 

 

Sod the model kits thread. They pushed it in the off section, hence it's doomed.

 

 

The OP of that thread started it in the open forum.

[sierraman]

There was a few Models of Yesteryears knocking about today, the early 70’s stuff in really unrealistic lurid 70’s shades. Tempted to get one for sheer naffness and they are minters but only a quid. Completely worthless but as a piece of 1970’s chintz they’re ace.

[mercrocker]

There is a slight grain of nostalgia running through those vivid green, crimson and mauve Yesteryears.....When I was a nipper we often went to Beaulieu (when it was the Montagu Motor Museum).  Many of the exhibits had been restored in the early Sixties and were often coach painted in bright enamel colours, with over-polished brass lamps, highly varnished wooden wheels and pristine apple-green leather seats.   

 

There was a lot of chundering in the likes of Motor Sport about it but that is how most people restored their Vintage and Veteran stuff back then and some of it still lingers in odd collections and museums.   Also, colour postcards were at their most garish round this time and the ones sold in Museum gift shops showed these technicolor Model Ts, Packards and Vauxhall 30/98s against impossibly green lawns and blue lakes.... 

 

Its very similar to the Teddy Boy scene where we have now all returned to the dark shades of cloth favoured in the 1950s rather than the lime green, poppy red or lilac drapes of the 1970s.   Nostalgia for the latter is confined to the odd conversation rather than people actually going back to it but I still enjoy my mid-sixties Yesteryears in their pink and yellow boxes!

[sierraman]

Should I pop out and get one on my dinner though that’s the question...

[mercrocker]

Not much change out of a quid for a packet of crisps these days.....Get a nice cheese and onion Lagonda or summat!