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Featuring in the 10^th of July’s Specialist, Tinplate & Plastic Toy Sale is a (circa) 1960's pressed steel 50"/127cm long Ferrari Pedal Car.

Of Italian manufacturer, it was bought by the vendors family in the mid 1960's and brought into the UK from Italy.

With a bright plated finish, it has had some mild sympathetic restoration with black painted lattice type spoked wheels, black painted steering wheel and front grille however it still retains its rubber tyres, windscreen, exhaust pipe and manifold to each side and black PVC seat but lacks its badge to front and knock off hub caps.

The running gear pedals and cranks are in working order together with the steering and the interior has been repainted grey, it would benefit from further polishing but otherwise a Good Plus very scarce example which displays well and is a one owner car!

Estimate: £300 - £500

Ding, Ding, all Aboard the Bus!

It seems you wait hours for one bus to arrive and then several, or in this case almost one hundred, pull up at once! Arriving in style for the auction on Wednesday 4^th September is a station full of rare and interesting buses.

The single owner collection encompasses vehicles which chart the evolution of the bus as we know it. There are transporters of all scales, mainly in tinplate from manufacturers spanning the globe.

From the UK, there is a fine selection of Minics (Triang) including an eye watering pre-WWII specimen in maroon finish, a Greenline (rural) single decker, 1950’s red and cream and even a late Minic with ‘Spot-On’ wheels.

Chad Valley is perhaps one of the best-known British toy producers, so it is no surprise to find a few editions from this Midlands based manufacturer. Several have a dual purpose, as not only being aesthetically pleasing they were distributed as biscuit or cracker containers.

On first glance what appears to be a Chad Valley, is in fact a scarce Burnett marked bus. This perhaps should not come as such a surprise, as when Burnett ceased trading just prior to WWII, Chad Valley took over and continued to release their items under the Chad Valley brand in the late 1940’s.

Another prolific tinplate company was Wells-Brimtoy. Registered in 1932 it was an amalgamation of two businesses Wells and Brimtoys, based in London. Clockwork, boxed examples and buses in coach livery are included in the auction, plus a colourful and fun ‘Pocket Series’ bus, typical of the period. These were a range in smaller scale, marketed as a budget line introduced by Wells-Brimtoy in 1952, taking account of lack of raw materials and utilising the latest in plastic mouldings alongside traditional lithographed tinplate. There is a magical clockwork bus from this producer which when wound, not only travels along but chimes its bell once and the bus stops, twice and it sets back off on its journey.

Another bus which presents like a Minic, on closer inspection reveals itself to be a rare, marked ‘A Gay Miller Toy’ bus produced after WWII.

There are several high-profile German toy producers who due to the political regime in the 1930’s disappeared or were disbanded because of their religious faith or heritage of its owners. One such company was ‘Tipp & Co’. A leading worker at the factory Phillip Ullman, moved to the UK and founded another toy giant Mettoy. There are thought provoking ‘Tipp & Co’ issues in the sale.

Early French tinplate examples are rare and so the several on offer in the sale are sure to appeal. Dating from 1910 they comprise Charles Rossignol and Jouet de Paris pieces. The anthology from steam bus to 6 then 4 wheelers through to diesel plots a timeline in itself.

The Rico double decker bus, made in Spain, is in the British style but has the rear entrance on the other side, of course. It is well documented that Japanese toy companies copied British toys, the SSS (Japan) versions of Dinky buses being prime examples, duplications in all respects except for being on a much larger scale.

So, hop on, and don’t miss your stop! This forms part of a Two Day Single Owner Collection to be sold at Vectis starting with Simply Dinky on Tuesday 3^rd September followed by more Specialist and Tinplate Auction on Wednesday 4^th September 2019.

The catalogue for the sale will be free to view online approx. two to three weeks prior to the sale date on the website www.vectis.co.uk

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The Specialist Tinplate and Plastic sale to be held on the 10^th of July featured 200 lots of Tinplate and plastic vehicles, kits, novelty toys and robots. Lots included Sutcliffe boats, a large tinplate clockwork racing car; cars, buses, vans, aircraft and trains from Schuco, Mettoy, Bandai and others. Plus, Triang and Triang Minic pre and post war vehicles, Welso Toys military series, Hong Kong made plastic vehicles, FROG kits and aircraft, and an aviation collection including a large display model of a Jet Stream 31 Air Ambulance. The sale continued with Part 2 of the Crystal Heart collection, a further 213 lots of carded and boxed groups of vehicles from Mattel Hotwheels, Matchbox Superfast, Takara Tomy, Schuco Piccolo modern issues, Corgi, Vanguards and Lledo. The sale also included Farm vehicles, Heavy Haulage, Corgi Classics, Matchbox Models of Yesteryear, Scalextric, Minichamps, Brooklin, and TW Collection (Trevor wright models).

The Model Train Sale held on the 19^th of July featured OO Gauge British Outline from Bachmann, Hornby (China), Mainline Railways, Heljan and others; HO USA & Continental Outline from Marklin, Rivarossi, Bachmann Spectrum and more. Plus, N Gauge, Hornby Dublo 2- and 3-rail, Kit/Scratchbuilt OO Gauge, and O Gauge locomotives and rolling stock from Hornby, modern and further. The sale also included Part 2 of the Lawrence Scale Models Single Owner Collection and a further eight lots of Japanese/Korean Brass British Outline OO Gauge Locomotives. Additional lots included Gauge 1 & Larger, G Gauge, a Trix Footplate Man Construction Set, Meccano, Live Steam, plus catalogues, Books, Magazines, DVD’s, and our usual good selection of General Trains.

The General Toys & Military, Civilian Figures, Equipment & Accessories sale held on the 11^th of July started with 200 lots of General Toys. Lots included Corgi, Dinky, Matchbox, Britains, Minichamps, WSI and LLedo; cars, commercials, Construction and Haulage, buses, farm related, Aircraft and TV and Film related, plus Franklin Mint Fire and Rescue vehicles. Other lots included catalogues, Scalextric, vintage computer consoles, electronic, and board games. The sale continued with 186 lots of Civilian Figures, Equipment & Accessories from “The Property of a Lady”. The collection included Britains Figures, Charbens and Timpo Circus series’, Salco Mickey and Minnie figures, Britains, Wend-Al and Timpo Farm series, figures from John Hill & co, Timpo railways series and a number of other series sets. The sale concluded with late entry sets from CB Mignot and Britains modern issues.