Victory Industries (UK) MG TF. Battery powered plastic model in black with red seats. Replacement plastic windscreen, Battery compartment clean. Length 8.5"/21.5cm. Some surface tarnishing to wheel hubs but overall Excellent for display in a Good Plus "crate" style card box with internal sleeve. £80-£100
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Fun Ho (New Zealand) Cast Metal Single Decker Bus. Red with "Transport Services" decals to sides. Plated metal wheel hubs with black rubber tyres. Length 5.25"/13cm. The body has been heavily overpainted. Good as repaint. £20-£40
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Large Scale Kit Built model of an RAF Bristol Twin-Rotor Helicopter. Radio controlled nitro (?) engined flying model similar to a Bristol 192 Belvedere in light grey and white with RAF markings. Approximate length of fuselage 60"/153cm. Not tested but Good Plus overall. Together with spare fuselage. £50-£100
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Large Scale Kitbuilt Single Rotor Radio Controlled Bell Jet Ranger Helicopter. Nitro (?) engined. Colourfully finished in gold, white, blue and black. Approximate length 60"/153cm. Not Tested. Bottom of tail fin broken off but Good Plus overall. Together with a large assortment of spare parts including fuselage, rotor blades, radio control equipment etc. £50-£100
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Large Scale Wooden Model of Bridlington Fishing Boat "Jenny M". Nicely constructed in wood with metal deck fittings. Electric motor driving single screw (untested) complete with stand. Length of hull 34"/86cm. Excellent for display. £30-£60
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Large Scale US Coast Guard Launch. Plastic hull with wooden superstructure and metal deck fittings and mast. Twin screws driven by two electric motors. Appears to be fitted for radio control (untested). Complete with stand. Hull 29"/74cm long. Good Plus for display. Together with a wooden Speed Boat with red hull and red and white deck. Appears to be fitted for radio control (untested); and a small assortment of equipment including radio control transmitters, motors, chargers, etc. (qty) £40-£60
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Large Scale Wooden Model of a Cruiser. Nicely finished with detailed superstructure and fittings. Decks lift off to reveal provision for fitting electric motor and radio control. Complete with stand. Hull length 43"/109cm. Missing propeller. Good Plus for display. £20-£40
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Billing Boats (Denmark) Coastal Fishing Boat "Bent" Kit No.702. Includes full instructions in English and requires only glue and paint to complete. Although unchecked the kit appears to be complete. Scale 1:16. Length of hull 25"/63cm. Contents Near Mint to Mint in Good Plus illustrated box. £20-£40
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Billing Boats (Denmark) Crab Fishing Boat Kit No.474. Requires fittings kit 475 to complete. Includes full instructions in English. Unchecked but appears to be complete. Scale 1:33. Box size 23"/58.5cm x 9.5"/24cm. Contents Near Mint in Good illustrated box. £20-£30
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Schylling (China) Golden Arrow 1929 Land Speed record car. Large scale gold tinplate clockwork model with white clothed driver. Steerable front wheels and clockwork motor with fixed key to underside. Length 20"/51cm. Includes numbered Schylling Collectors Series Certificate. A very impressive and evocative model. Mint in Mint illustrated box with packing and illustrated outer sleeve. £20-£30
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Schylling (China) Golden Arrow 1929 Land Speed record car. Large scale gold tinplate clockwork model with white clothed driver. Steerable front wheels and clockwork motor with fixed key to underside. Length 20"/51cm. Includes numbered Schylling Collectors Series Certificate. A very impressive and evocative model. Mint in Mint illustrated box with packing and illustrated outer sleeve. £20-£30
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Schylling (China) Golden Arrow 1929 Land Speed record car. Large scale gold tinplate clockwork model with white clothed driver. Steerable front wheels and clockwork motor with fixed key to underside. Length 20"/51cm. Includes numbered Schylling Collectors Series Certificate. A very impressive and evocative model. Mint in Mint illustrated box with packing and illustrated outer sleeve. £20-£30
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Schylling (China) Golden Arrow 1929 Land Speed record car. Large scale gold tinplate clockwork model with white clothed driver. Steerable front wheels and clockwork motor with fixed key to underside. Length 20"/51cm. Includes numbered Schylling Collectors Series Certificate. A very impressive and evocative model. Mint in Mint illustrated box with packing and illustrated outer sleeve. £20-£30
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Jetex (Wilmot Mansour, UK) Jet Propelled Racing Car. Green plastic racing car with Jetex motor and various accessories including fuel pellets, wick, gauzes etc. White driver with No.11 to side of car. Length 6.25"/16cm. Repair to front wheelarch. Good in Good to Fair illustrated box with instruction sheet. £20-£30
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Jetex (Wilmot Mansour, UK) Jet Propelled Racing Car. Blue plastic racing car with Jetex motor and various accessories including fuel pellets, wick, gauzes etc. White driver with No.12 to side of car. Length 6.25"/16cm. Good Plus in Good (slightly grubby) illustrated box with instruction sheets, £25-£35
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Jetex (Sebel Products, UK) Jet Propelled Racing Car. Black plastic model with Jetex motor and various accessories including fuel pellets, wick, gauzes etc. White driver with No.13 to top of bonnet. Length 6.25"/16cm. This model does not appear to have been used. Excellent in a Good illustrated box with instruction sheets and inner packing tissue paper. £30-£40
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Jetex (Sebel Products, UK) Jet Helicopter. Aluminium and balsa wood model with two Jetex motors and various accessories including fuel pellets, wick, gauzes etc. Rotor span 23"/59cm. This model does not appear to have been flown. Excellent in a Good to Good Plus illustrated box with instruction sheets. £30-£40
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Triang (UK) Frog Austin 1100 Quick Fit Car Kit with electric motor. Blue plastic clip together car kit. Unassembled and not checked for completeness but contents are generally Excellent in Fair illustrated box that converts into a garage. £30-£40
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Vehicle Construction Kits (UK). Comprising: a Wilson P. TS/6 Double Front Axle Platform Constructional Lorry Kit in 4mm scale. Still in sealed unopened box. Length of box 6". Contents unseen but box is Good Plus. Together with an Astral Kit in wood, plastic and metal to construct Streamlined Coronation Scot Locomotive in OO Gauge. Contents unchecked but locomotive tender appears to be partly constructed. Box 11"/28cm long. Good in Fair illustrated box. (2) £20-£30
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Triang (UK) Frog Revmaster Electric Motor. Permanent Magnet 4-6 volts DC motor. Appears unused in original box with packing tissue and instruction sheet. Near Mint in Good Plus box. Together with Triang Minic Jeep. Lacking clockwork motor and steering wheel. Fair for display; and Gesha (Germany) silver tinplate clockwork Racing Car body (Poor). (3) £10-£20
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Penguin (UK) Series 4 plastic rubber band powered cars. Comprising 2 x Armstrong Siddeley Hurricane in blue and orange, Ford V8 Tudor Sedan in cream; Jowett Javelin in cream and a green Racing Car. Some light age distortion to plastic but generally Good Plus to Excellent in Good illustrated card boxes. Together with an unboxed yellow Penguin Racing Car, also Good Plus to Excellent. (6) £50-£70
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Marklin 1990 Reichpost Delivery Van. Large scale tinplate clockwork model of recent limited edition production. Yellow with white roof, black chassis and silver running boards. Wired for battery powered electric headlights. Complete with key and limited edition certificate. Clockwork motor working when tested. Length 15"/38cm. Near Mint to Mint in Excellent illustrated box. £120-£160
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Chad Valley (UK) Remote Control Car. Tinplate clockwork car finished in red. Complete with original "male" key but missing control tube and bulb. Clockwork motor working when tested. Length 7.5"/19cm. Extensive scratching and pitting to paintwork and dent to roof. Fair to Poor. £5-£10
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Mettoy (UK) Large Boat-Tailed Racing Car. Light and dark blue tinplate clockwork car with silver detailing. Racing No.3. Lacks driver figure and windscreen. Clockwork motor working when tested. Length 12.5"/32cm. Extensive surface pitting to body and surface rusting to underside. Generally Fair. £40-£60
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Various tinplate toys, comprising: (1) Clockwork Motorcycle with Sidecar (China) 7"/18cm long. Fixed key clockwork motor working when tested. Excellent in Fair illustrated box; (2) Sparking Friction Drive Tank (China), 6.5"/16.5cm long. Excellent in Fair to Good illustrated box; (3) Five miniature tinplate Penny Toy type Cars (Japan) in original polythene and card wrapping. Each 1.5"/4cm long. Excellent and (4) an English made push-along Aeroplane tinprinted in blue, red and silver. Wing span 6"/15cm. Fair. (4) £20-£30
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Triang Minic (UK) Dust Cart. Green standard cab with red body. Clockwork motor working when tested, some tarnishing to plated parts and two "flat" rear tyres. Good in Fair to Good illustrated box. Together with a Triang Minic Vauxhall Tourer. Green with black mudguards and red base. Clockwork motor working when tested. Tarnishing to plated parts, paint loss to mudguards and hood, one seat loose, one "flat" and one missing tyre. Fair. (2) £20-£40
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Marx (UK) Powerhouse Mobile Crane Truck. Large scale pressed steel mobile crane. Light green cab and rotating crane with black chassis and jib. Solid plastic wheels. Complete with detachable grab bucket. "Lumar Contractors" decals to sides and rear. Length to tip of jib 31"/79cm. Some paint chipping and would benefit from a clean but overall Good in a Poor brown cardboard illustrated box. £5-£15
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Eureka (France) Simca Pedal Car. Circa 1975. Pressed steel body finished in powder blue with cream seat and steering wheel. Solid rubber black tyres on cream and chrome wheels. Features adjustable seat, opening boot, horn, detachable windscreen, retractable aerial and electric lights. This car is understood to be unmarketed bankrupt stock from the factory. Provenance: sold by Sotheby's in 1988 as part of the Shaun Magee Collection of Pedal Cars (catalogue included in lot). Length 43.5"/110.5cm. Some signs of playwear including scuffs and scratches to exposed edges, some surface corrosion to front of car, one headlight lens missing and one windscreen pillar missing. Generally Good. £300-£500
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Pedal Driven Racing Car. Superbly hand crafted in steel and finished in white with green racing stripe and green cast metal wheels with rubber pneumatic tyres. Padded green leatherette seat and black steering wheel. Chrome radiator grille. Length 56"/142cm. Together with a solidly made green steel display stand. This is a prototype made by Naylor Brothers Restorations some years ago. It was based on a 1949 Secar made by a company in Slough of which only about ten were made. However, this car did not go into production and hence this example is unique. £600-£800
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Large scale model of a Single Funnel Passenger/Cargo Ship. Constructed in wood with red and grey hull and white superstructure. "Port Neva" on bows. Approximately 96"/244cm long. Overall wear and missing deck details. Poor to Fair. An interesting restoration project. £5-£20
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Meccano Aeroplane Constructor parts and accessories. A quantity consisting of No.2 clockwork Aero Motor, a further box without motor but includes some shafts, propellers, engines, cowlings, roundels and other useful parts. A useful lot for the Meccano Aero Constructor/Builder. Fair to Good. (qty) £50-£70
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Meccano No.1 Aeroplane Constructor built as a Biplane in cream and green with RAF roundels, pilot and propellers, Good to Good Plus. £100-£120
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Triang (French Factory) various Advertising Mock Ups and other paperwork including a fold out leaflet with the Triang Family Pierre, Jojo and Nicole, hand drawn banner for Minic Motorways and advert for Jouef, Hornby Acho Fleischmann and Rivarossi, Station Service, a Printed Triang Castle all containing typed sheets, 2 x Coupon Mock ups and Mock ups for Arkitex Rally etc. Children can be seen looking at Advertising Posters "Have a Happy Christmas" with Triang Mock up, all done in pen and ink, mostly on tracing paper on card frames - Good. (8) £40-£60
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Triang (French Factory) a Collection of Hand Drawn Catalogue and Advertising Mock Ups including 1 depicting Father Christmas holding a Triang Catalogue exclaiming "This Year you should ask for all Triang Toys!" another showing Triang Lionel, Triang Aircraft, Arkitex, Scalextric, Minic and other toys. All are hand drawn in pencil and ink on tracing paper and mounted in board, some bearing hand annotations to borders, generally Good Plus to Excellent. (8) £40-£60
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Ichiko (Japan) Nostalgia Wagen Volkswagen Beetle. Large scale tinplate friction drive model in yellow with grey flock seats. Plated bumpers, headlights and wheel hubs. Black plastic tyres. Length 15.25"/39cm. Slight box rubbing to roof and some surface corrosion spotting to bumpers. Generally Good Plus to Excellent in Good Plus illustrated card box. £40-£60
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Wooden Ambulance and GPO Truck. Both hand made. Green painted GPO Truck with "L. Lewis" to cab door. Wooden wheels. Length 17"/43cm. Khaki painted Ambulance with red crosses to side and on cab roof. Wooden wheels. Opening rear door with interior containing cloth mattress and pillows. Length 12.5"/31cm. Condition is generally Good. (2) £5-£15
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Marx Toys (UK) Disney Goofy. Plastic figure with blue trousers, black waistcoat and red shirt. Fixed key clockwork mechanism and twirling cat attached to Goofy's tail. Clockwork working when tested. 8"/20cm high. Some small areas of paint loss but generally Good Plus. £20-£40
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Geyper (Spain) Walky Son Marching Toy Soldiers. Large scale plastic battery operated toy comprising five soldiers and a drum. Similar to Marx Toys Big Parade. Pennant missing from pole on drum. Battery compartment clean. Soldiers are 11"/28cm tall. Good Plus for display. £10-£20
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Schuco (US Zone, Germany) Combinato 4003 Car. Ivory tinplate body, red plastic wheels with rubber tyres, red interior with printed detail on dashboard. Clockwork motor propels car, controlled by hand brake and steering column mounted gear lever. Separate clockwork mechanism for operating horn. Mechanisms working when tested. Length 7.5"/19cm. With non original key. Some light scuffing and would benefit from a cleaning but generally Good Plus. £90-£120
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Rico (Spain) Double Decker Bus. Scarce green and cream tinplate friction drive example with right hand drive half cab. Red wheels with plated hubs and black rubber tyres. Translucent celluloid windows over tin profiles of passengers and river. "Line Toy Rico" to one side of bus and "Trenes Electricos Rico" to other side. Length 10"/25.5cm. Some minor scuffs to edge of roof and light tarnishing to radiator but generally Good Plus to Excellent. £420-£460
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Minic Display Cabinet - grey painted wooden construction approximately 83cm wide, 55cm tall, 16cm deep with opening doors to front, 41.5cm wide, 55.5cm tall, 7.5cm deep, rear part of cabinet has 4 fixed shelves, doors have 5 x fixed shelves, each outlined in red detail, upright wooden stand/sign affixed to rear of cabinet with cut-out/red plastic film "Minic" to centre - some previous signs of woodworm to left hand door and some overall wear/paint loss to outside of cabinet, inside of cabinet has little wear, overall Good Plus to Excellent, very hard to find £700-£800
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Lyons Maid Tinplate Advertising Sign. Modern tinplate advertising sign for Lyons Maid Ice Cream depicting three children dancing and holding ice creams and lollipops. In wooden frame/stand. 34"/86cm high. A colourful and decorative item. Excellent Plus to Near Mint. £10-£20
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Triang (UK) Mangle. Finished in green and red steel and brown wood. Height 19.5"/49.5cm. Signs of woodworm damage to rollers and some paint loss but displays well. Good. Together with a child's 15-piece ceramic Tea Set by The Staffordshire Teaset Co. Ltd of Tunstall. Illustrated with transfer printed scenes of dogs. Box 22.5"/57cm x 16"/41cm. Excellent in Fair illustrated box; a Heatmaster Child's Teapot and Coffee Pot set in Art Deco style. The tea pot and coffee pot in insulated metal covers with metal tray, jug, sugar bowl and tea strainer. Excellent in a Fair card presentation box; and a Triang wooden Puff Puff Locomotive in red with yellow lining. 15"/38cm long. Damage to one cab side. Good. £20-£40
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Wells Brimtoy (UK) Cinderella and Prince Charming plastic clockwork waltzing figures. Complete with key. Clockwork working when tested. 5"/13cm high. Some slight paint loss to Prince Charming' s hair and would benefit from a clean but generally Good Plus. Together with a hand operated wooden Mickey Mouse style acrobatic toy. Good. (2) £20-£30
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China Can Co. Ltd (China) Climbing Monkey. Tinplate climbing toy similar to Lehmann "Tom". Colourfully tinprinted with purple and pink checked jacket and red hat. This is a scarce early example of a Chinese tin toy. Length 8"/20cm. Some surface rubbing to chest through movement of arms in climbing action but generally Good Plus. £40-£60
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Lehmann (Germany) 431 Crawling Beetle. Tinplate clockwork beetle with crawling and wing flapping action. Fixed key and all six legs intact. Working when tested. Length 4"/10cm. Light age wear but a Good Plus example. £60-£80
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Richard and Carl Adam (Germany) clockwork Crawling Beetle. Walking and wing flapping action. Clockwork mechanism working when tested. Almost identical to the Lehmann beetle, this example has the Adams Ballerina trademark on top of the body and precedes the Lehmann toy. Length 4"/10cm. All six legs intact. Some light age wear and rubbing to tinprinting but generally Good to Good Plus. £80-£100
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Marx (UK) Merrymakers Mouse Band. Tinplate clockwork novelty toy from c.1925 comprising tinprinted clockwork piano and animated mouse drummer, dancer, pianist and conductor figures. Fixed key clockwork mechanism in working order when tested. Believed to be an early Mickey Mouse style toy before Marx secured the rights to make Mickey Mouse toys. Length of piano 6.5"/16.5cm. Some wear to edges and surface scratches. A Good scarce example. £300-£500
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Triang (UK) Minic Breakdown Lorry No.48M. Pre-war example with dark red cab, very dark green rear body and red jib. "Minic Motor Service Co. Breakdown Lorry" decals to sides, plated grille, wings with Shell Petrol Can to one side, steel hubs with white tyres. Both motors working when tested. Some tarnishing to edges of mudguards. Good Plus in original Fair to Good box. £60-£80
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German clockwork Tinplate Acrobat. Probably Gunthermann or Bing. Tinprinted figure in blue sailor suit. The arms are hinged at the shoulders and the hands attached to a wire frame enabling the figure to perform somersaults etc. Clockwork mechanism needs attention. Height of figure 6.5"/16.5cm. Good Plus. A scarce example. £80-£100
The Sussex CollectionPart 2
Matchbox Models ofYesteryear
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