The Mike Linham Fire Engine Collection held on the 20th of October featured over 600 lots of boxed and unboxed models, including Fire Engines, Fire Chief cars and vehicles, Station houses, boats and Horse Drawn wagons. The collection included scarce models, sets, presentation sets, trade boxes and kits and includes tinplate, plastic, pressed steel, and diecast. Manufacturers included Marklin, Schuco, Mettoy, Timpo, Chad Valley, Charles Rossignol, Hubley, and Lego plus Corgi, Dinky, Triang Spot-On, Lledo and many others.
The Model Train sale held on the 25th of September started with almost 200 lots of OO Gauge British Outline from Hornby, Bachmann Lima and others, and included a Single Owner Collection. The sale continued with HO American Continental Outline, N Gauge, Hoe, Hornby Dublo 2-, and 3-rail plus Xrail and Acho. The sale also included Wrenn, Triang, Triang TT, OO Gauge Kit/Kitbuilt, Live Steam, and O Gauge from Hornby and others; the sale concluded with Books, Magazines, Catalogues & Railwayana and our usual good selection of General Trains.
The Specialist sale which was held on the 22nd September held no fewer than 10 private owner collections. Dinky models featured heavily in this sale with variations from Dinky Dublo, Atlas Editions, French Dinky, and Pre-war models, these and other models could be found in The St Martins Bay Collection, The Kent Collection, The Dinky Ex-Shop Stock Collection, The Canadian Collection, The Devonshire Collection, and The Germany Collection. Corgi road and racing vehicles, commercials and Chipperfield circus models were found in The County Durham Collection, and The Birmingham Collection, whilst The West Yorkshire Collection and The Cheshire Collection featured Triang Spot-On, Matchbox, Tekno, Solido, Lansdowne, Minichamps and many more.
The Specialist sale held on the 24th of September featured The Doug Osborn Matchbox Dinky collection, 477 lots of boxed and unboxed models. The collection included pre-production Trial models, unreleased, unpainted and unusual variation models, plus, promotional variations, R&D Staff Signed models, colour trials and code 2 models. The collection also included Gift Sets and pewter models, plus collection books, reissues, and Atlas Editions. The sale also featured 67 lots of Matchbox Yesteryears from the Matchbox Retailer Collection and further items from other vendors including Matchbox, Dinky, Corgi and others.
For Charlie Bear collectors we have some of the ‘Holy Grail’ of Charlie bears coming up for sale in the Doll & Teddy Bear Sale at Vectis on Tuesday 8th September. Six of the eleven earliest teddy bears designed by Heather Lyell, made in this range from 2006 to 2007. Alfie, Bartholomew, Dylan, Humphrey, Jude and Tyler in 2006; then Freddy, Harrison, James, Logan and Louis in 2007. These Mohair bears were the only ones made in the UK, as in 2007 production was moved to Thailand. See lot numbers 1288 – 1293.
Additionally, there are sought after Show Specials from Charlie Bears ‘Isabelle Collection’ Lot 1288 Duke Beagle puppy dog Yorkshire Terrier puppy dog Ripley, these Show Specials were only available from teddy bear shops and Charlie Bear retailers who attended the NEC Spring Show in February 2009.
One of the lowest ever limited-edition runs was of the 50 of Charlie Bears Isabelle Collection Fergus teddy bear released in Autumn 2008 his lot number is 1158.
Started in February 2006 by Charlotte Morris and her husband William, Charlie Bears have had a meteoric rise to popularity over a relatively short period of time.
Charlotte had built up a wealth of experience with customers, design and pricing, having run a couple of successful Teddy Bear Shops in the North of England. Charlie Bears initially launched with twelve bears in the range, designed by Heather Lyell from New Zealand and Isabelle Lee from the US. Today these are some of the most elusive and sought-after Charlie Bears on the market.
The ‘Bear Studio’ designed by Isabelle Lee are the earliest produced for Charlie Bears. They include many of the trademark features including hand-sculpted faces, air-brushed muzzles, hand-embroidered noses and glass eyes. Some have white felt under the eyes to give them that soulful look. Current editions are generally between 200 and 500 pieces world-wide but early releases only included perhaps 100 editions in total.
Designs Include
Plumo (mixture of plush and mohair)
Isabelle Collection
Minimo (smaller bears)
Secret Collection (not in the regular catalogue but for QVC or other country specials)
Animals
Accessories
Plush
Baby
Click on this link to view all the Charlie Bears in the sale.
Foe more information please contact Kathy Taylor on +44 (0) 1642 750616 This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
JM
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