Matchbox Superfast 4 x No.41 Ambulance - all are white body, blue windows, small "Ambulance" labels, grey interior, bare metal base, dot-dash wheels - Excellent to Near Mint (one example has discoloured rear doors) in Good to Good Plus type K boxes, and No.63 Snorkel Fire Engine with silver painted base - Near Mint in Excellent US issue generic all-card box. (5) £40-£50
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Matchbox Superfast Lufthansa Gift Set pre-production trial models. (1) No.59 Porsche 928 - light orange body with trial door decals, light amber windows, red interior, pearl silver painted Lesney England base, 5-crown wheels (drivers door incorrectly assembled); No.65 Airport Coach - light orange body with trial decals, white roof, amber windows, silver painted Lesney England base; (3) Mercedes 280GE G-Wagon - light orange body with trial hood and door decals, white roof, blue windows, black plastic Macau base - Excellent to Near Mint, unboxed. Also included is a production set of 3 x Lufthansa models all with Macau bases and all with tampo printed decoration and darker orange bodies - Excellent to Near Mint, unboxed. 2 x Volvo Container Trucks both of which have container with "Kelloggs" label to one side, "Milch Lait Latte" label to opposite side - (1) white body, amber windows, 5-crown wheels (container discoloured from white to a cream colour); (2) as (1) but blue body - Excellent and Near Mint, unboxed and No.37d Sun Burner (Maserati Bora) - black body with pale lime green & red tampo print, clear windows, red interior, gloss black Lesney Products England base, 5-spoke wheels - Near Mint, unboxed. (9) £50-£70
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Matchbox, a large quantity of 1980s and early 1990s issue catalogues (much duplication) along with a quantity of black & white and colour photographs of various Matchbox models - condition varies from Good to Near Mint. (qty) £10-£20
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Matchbox, a group of USA edition catalogues including 1963; 1965 and a complete run from 1967 through to 1982/183 including both 1st and 2nd editions for 1969 - Good Plus to Excellent Plus and 1966 - Fair with pencil graffiti to both covers and contents pages. (20) £40-£50
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Matchbox, group of German issue catalogues. Complete run from 1966 through to 1971 (missing 1969 2nd edition); further complete run of catalogues from 1973 through to 1978 all of which have ink ticks or crosses against model illustrations - Fair. 1969, 1969 2nd edition, 1970, 1971, 1972/73, 1976, 1980/81 and 1981/82 catalogues - Good Plus to Near Mint. East German GDR editions for 1976, 1977, 1978 and 1979/80 - Excellent to Near Mint. (25) £40-£60
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Matchbox, a group of catalogues. French edition catalogues for 1967, 1970, 1971, 1975, 1979/80, 1980/81, 1981/82, 1982/83 along with Dutch (Netherlands) catalogues for 1980/81 and 1982/83 plus Danish catalogues (Denmark) for 1979/80, 1980/81, 1981/82 and 1982/83 along with scarce Arabic catalogue for 1982/83. Condition varies from Good to Near Mint, some with worn covers. (15) £20-£30
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Matchbox, a group of catalogues. Italian editions for 1969, 1970, 1978, 1979/80, 1980/81 and 1981/82 along with 2 x 1966 and 1969 2nd International editions; USA 1968 & 1970 editions and UK 1965 & 2 x 1969 2nd edition - Good to Near Mint. (14) £40-£50
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Matchbox, a group of International catalogues. Including 1965 through to 1973 inclusive (apart from missing 1969 1st edition), 1975, 1979/80, 1980/81 and 1982/32 - Good to Near Mint and 1969 1st edition catalogue which has a number of pencil ticks and ink graffiti alongside model illustrations - Fair. (14) £25-£35
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Matchbox, a group of Japan issue catalogues. Full run from 1967 through to 1977 inclusive and 1979/80 - Good Plus to Near Mint. (11) £60-£80
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Matchbox Superfast 5 x 1970 issue 48-car Carry Cases only one of which is complete with inner plastic trays, the remaining four cases are missing trays and 7 x 1971 issue 48-car Carry Case - again only one case is complete with inner plastic trays, the remaining six cases are missing inner trays - all would benefit from cleaning but generally Good to Excellent. (12) £20-£30
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Matchbox Superfast and Regular Wheels, a group of both boxed and unboxed models. 13 x various boxed Superfast models including 2 x No.65 Airport Coach; No.61 Ford Wreck Truck; No.72 Hovercraft plus others along with Regular Wheel No.7a Horsedrawn Milk Float and No.14a Daimler Ambulance. Condition varies from Good to Near Mint in Poor and incomplete to Good boxes. Unboxed models include various No.5 London Buses; Aveling Barford Diesel Road Rollers; other buses and coaches, cars etc. along with No.71c Ford Esso Wreck Truck with amber windows - Poor to Excellent, unboxed (includes a small number of Corgi Juniors), 8 x further boxed Matchbox and Corgi Junior models - Excellent to Mint in Poor to Fair packaging. (approx. 65) £40-£50
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Matchbox, a group of collecting magazines and books. Including various MICA and UK Matchbox Club bound volumes; further loose UK Matchbox Club and MICA magazines (much duplication); Collecting MB38 Ford Vans; a Concise Catalogue of 1-75 series Matchbox Toys plus a few other items similar - Good to Mint. £10-£20
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Matchbox M3 Switch-a-Trak appears predominately complete although the X1 accessory pack containing drive pins, stickers & joining clip has been used and unchecked for exact completeness. Models include (1) No.31c Lincoln Continental; (2) No.54b Cadillac Ambulance; (3) No.64b MG 1100; (4) No.68b Mercedes Coach - Excellent to Near Mint in Good to Excellent type F boxes, track is Good but would benefit from cleaning, in Fair box with badly damaged and torn lid. £40-£60
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Matchbox 36 x various MB38 vans - all generally Near Mint to Mint in Fair to Excellent blue window boxes many of which of have opened, four are in all-card boxes which are generally Near Mint. 6 x further unboxed MB38 vans - Excellent to Near Mint, unboxed (a couple with sunfaded labels or discoloured plastic roofs). Convoy Series CY24 Ferrari Racing Car Transporter - Near Mint to Mint in Excellent blue window box and Superkings K136 Ferrari Articulated Racing Car Transporter complete with 2 x racing cars - Excellent to Excellent Plus in Excellent window box. "The Yesteryear Book 1956 - 1993" signed by the authors and brown flock covered MB38 display case - Good (46) £50-£60
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Matchbox Models of Yesteryear group of 1960's Issue Cars. Y3 1910 Benz Limousine; 2 x Y5 1929 Blower Bentley (1) racing No.5 decals, bare metal radiator casting, dark red seats; (2) racing No.3 decals, bare metal radiator casting, bright red seats; Y6 Bugatti Type 35 - red body with white dashboard; Y7 Mercer Raceabout (early issue with cast open front wings in later issue type E1 box; Y8 Sunbeam Motorcycle & Sidecar; Y10 1928 Mercedes and Y15 Rolls Royce Silver Ghost - Excellent to Mint in Fair to Good Plus type D and E boxes. (8) £50-£70
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Matchbox Models of Yesteryear 2 x Y11 1912 Packard Landaulet (1) standard issue dark red body - Good Plus in Fair pink/yellow window box; (2) unusual bright red body (distinctly lighter shade than normal) - Excellent Plus (paint chip to front wing touched-in) in Excellent pink/yellow window box and Y2 1911 Renault - bright red seats, non plated bare metal parts - Near Mint to Mint (seats loose) in Excellent Plus to Near Mint pink/yellow window box and Y6 1913 Cadillac - metallic darker gold body, maroon smooth roof, maroon seats and grille, type C base with "913 Cadillac" text - Near Mint in Near Mint pink/yellow window box. (4) £40-£50
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Matchbox Models of Yesteryear Y15 1930 Packard Victoria - metallic yellow-gold body with thick cast rear coach line, black roof and trunk, maroon seats and grille, dark brown chassis, chrome 24-spoke wheels - Near Mint in Excellent woodgrain box. £30-£40
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Matchbox Models of Yesteryear group of harder to find models. (1) Y2 Prince Henry Vauxhall - metallic blue body with copper fuel tank; (2) Y7 1912 Rolls Royce with unusual brighter shade red roof and chassis; (3) Y7 1912 Rolls Royce - standard issue with darker red roof and chassis for comparison purposes with previous model; (4) Y9 1912 Simplex - darker green body, tan textured roof; (5) Y12 1909 Thomas Flyabout - metallic blue body with tan textured roof; (6) Y13 Crossley RAF Tender with olive green canopies and chrome 24-spoke wheels; (7) Y16 1928 Mercedes SS Coupe - green plastic parts, separately cast brass exhaust; (7) as (6) but without separately cast brass exhaust - Excellent Plus to Mint in Good to Excellent boxes. (8) £50-£70
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Matchbox Models of Yesteryear group of Code 2 Issues. (1) Y5 Leyland Titan Bus "Swan Fountpens"; (2) Y12 GMC Van "MSS Security"; (3) Y19 Morris Cowley Van "Vitakraft"; (4) Y21 Ford Model TT Van "Classic Toys"; (5) Y22 Ford Model A Van "Charlie Mack Toy Museum"; (6) Y25 Renault Van "MICA 1984-1999"; (7) Y26 Crossley Beer Delivery Truck "De Bortoli"; (8) Y47 Morris Cowley Van "Churton's Fine Scotch Whisky" - all generally Near Mint to Mint in Excellent to Near Mint boxes. 2 x Guisval Classic Cars Series (these are smaller scale copies of the Matchbox range) (1) 1939 Mercedes 540K; (2) MG TC - both Near Mint to Mint in Excellent and Near Mint window boxes. £60-£80
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Matchbox Models of Yesteryear Y13 Crossley - RAF Tender, RAF blue body and chassis, tan canopies and grille, green seats, chrome 12-spoke wheels and type B body front springs and baseplate, rare. Mint but for minor marks and front seat loose in Excellent box type H. £30-£40
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Matchbox Models of Yesteryear Y12 Ford Model T Van "Taystee Bread" - yellow body, black chassis, matt black roof, black seats, gold plated parts, red 12-spoke wheels, red type 1 rear doors and with correct 30mm x 19mm decal, extremely rare, Mint but for a few minor marks in Excellent straw box. £80-£100
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Matchbox Models of Yesteryear Y5 Talbot Van - "Ever Ready" - colour trial model, dark blue body, glossy black chassis, dark grey roof, beige seats and 12-spoke chrome wheels, rare. Mint but for minor marks in standard straw box. £20-£30
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Matchbox Lesney Design Office approx. A5 Photo Album containing photographs for the Y9 1912 Simplex taking during a 1966 visit to the real car in the USA. Album contains 29 x 5" x 4" (12.5cm x 10cm) black & white photographs many of which give close up detail of lamps, wheels, body fittings etc. which a number have measurements added in ink, one photograph has some brown staining and only Good, the remainder Excellent to Near Mint. Interesting historical document. £40-£50
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Matchbox Ephemera. Including brown envelope from TI Rockwell of Edgware Road, London addressed to Mr Lamb, The Tool Room Foreman, Lesney Limited, Hall Lane, Chingford, London E4 and postmarked 02/09/80; 10 x small c.1982 plastic carrier bags "Kani & Sons Ltd - Distributor of Matchbox Toys, Nicosia, Cyprus" each illustrating the Audio Quattro and a Convoy Series Kenworth Articulated Box Truck produced by Don Levy Ltd in London - Good to Excellent; a further c.1982 issue plastic carrier bag "Matchbox" illustrating the new blue, yellow & red branding - Good; 12 x East European (possibly Bulgarian or Hungarian) iron-on heat transfers illustrating Superkings Datsun 240Z, each measuring 25.5cm x 19cm - generally Near Mint to Mint although one transfer only Good having been folded in half; 1984 Italian trade catalogue - Near Mint; 1987 Matchbox diary; self-adhesive "Matchbox" retailers shop display label which measures 9" x 2.5" (approx. 23cm x 6cm); 14 x "New Special Editions" Models of Yesteryear trade leaflets and 3 x further 1980s issue Yesteryear leaflets - Excellent to Near Mint. (qty) £30-£50
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Matchbox Superfast Retailers Vac-Form Wall Mounted Display Stand intended to hold the entire 1-75 range (c.1971), does have some damage to both sides and lower edge but clear plastic cover remains clear and has not discoloured - overall Good Plus. £70-£90
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Matchbox c.mid-1990s Retailers Card Shop Display Signs - all are double sided with "Matchbox Get In The Fast Lane" branding, measuring 20.5" x 7.5" (approx. 52cm x 19cm) - Excellent to Near Mint. (4) £20-£30
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