Featuring in the Specialist, Tinplate and Toy sale on the 20th of July are a number of large scratchbuilt radio controlled wooden model boats. These were made by a former employee of Swan Hunter Ship Builders on Tyneside, using the company's plans.
These are offered alongside a number of other boats, ships and pond yachts.
The Model Train sale held on the 22nd of July started with OO Gauge British Outline from Hornby (China), including Harry Potter Hogwarts Express train sets; Lima, Bachmann, OO works, Heljan, Dapol and others. HO American & Continental Outline was represented by Riverossi, Fleischmann, Bachmann Spectrum, Athearn and many others. Further items included N Gauge, Z and On20 Narrow Gauge. The sale continued with Hornby Dublo 2 & 3-rail locos, rolling stock and sets, Triang and Triang TT; Wrenn, O and OO Gauge Kit/Kitbuilt, HO Gauge including Brass, and Trix. The sale concluded with Meccano & Other Constructional Toys, Live Steam, Gauge 1 & Larger, Transport Photographs and our usual good selection of General Trains.
The TV and Film related sale held on the 21st of July featured a large quantity of Star Wars items including carded and loose figures, sealed shipping cases of figures; playsets, vehicles and collectables. The sale also included figures from Masters of the Universe, Ghostbusters, Action Man, Gi Joe and wrestling, plus Captain Scarlet and Dr Who playsuits, Colin Baker and Sylvester McCoy signed photographs, a Batman rocket gun, trade catalogues, gaming items, Pok?mon cards, and much more.
The Southgate Collection is a final chance to buy from Jose Royce, who ran Rodwins toy shop in Southgate for nearly 60 years.
Jose's lifelong interest in toys became her career with her first job in Hamleys of Regent Street, where she started working aged 16 in 1951, the year before Queen Elizabeth II came to the throne. After 2 years at Hamleys, she left to continue learning more about the toy trade, firstly at a toy wholesaler, then in a local toy retailer. Aged 21, she decided to go on the road as a traveller for various toy companies. Having shared this ambition with her parents, they showed their support by selling the family car and buying a Morris Traveller that she could use for work, travelling up to 80 miles around her London home.
After 2 years selling Matchbox toys and many others, Jose, aged 23, had the opportunity to take over the local toy shop and became the proprietor of Rodwins in 1959 (named in order to re-use the silver letters of the previous shop ? Windsor Toys !!) Initially selling and repairing toys and bicycles, the range of goods available expanded when Jose took over the shop next door to include crafts, costumes, ballet wear and, latterly, haberdashery.
Jose in her shop in 1959
Rodwins remained in the same location for nearly sixty years and Jose became a much-loved and active member of the community, selling toys to the children, and even grandchildren, of her early customers. The shop finally closed its doors just before Christmas 2018 but Jose had retained some of her most treasured toys, including rare Matchbox, Triang and Dinky cars, boats and planes, as well as diecast soldiers and royal carriages, which are now offered for sale.
Jose receiving the Golden Teddy Award for outstanding achievement in the toy trade in 2015
The Specialist and Tinplate and toy sale held on the 20th of July, started with Part 2 of The Torvic Matchbox Collection which featured Matchbox Models of Yesteryears including pre-production and colour trial models and trade packs. The sale continued with further Matchbox models of Yesteryear, Code 2, Giftware, Lesney studio photographs plus Superfast and regular wheel models. The Southgate Collection included King Size, Super King, Regular Wheel and Superfast groups, gift sets and single models. Plus, Corgi and Dinky, including aircraft, Britains boxed sets and trade boxes, Triang Minic ships, catalogues and brochures. The sale also included TV & film related models, Minichamp motorcycles, motorcycle kits, Trucks, slot cars, Corgi and Dinky models plus The David Lisle Collection of diecast, tinplate and plastic buses from Dinky, Corgi, Chad Valley, Triang Minic and many others. The sale concluded with further Tinplate & Plastic lots including space and novelty toys, pedal cars, pressed steel models and vehicles, and large scale boats and ships including remote control and motorised.
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