Vectis Auctions

The Specialist Sale to be held on the 16^th of January features seven private owner collections plus other vendors. The Northern Collection features Solido racing cars; Dinky cars, trucks, service vehicles, and aircraft, plus Corgi vehicles and TV and Film memorabilia. The Bus Collection features 20 lots of boxed and unboxed buses from Minialuxe, Gamda (Israel), Tekno and Dinky, plus others and The Hampshire Collection includes Dinky cars, motorcycles, South African, and French Dinky. The Borders Collection, The Hereford Collection - Part 1, and Part 2 of The Puerto Rico Collection all include boxed and unboxed Corgi and Dinky cars, commercials, haulage, military and aircraft plus many others, and the French Dinky from The London Collection features a number of buses and military vehicles.

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The Military, Civilian Figures, Equipment & Accessories sale held on the 26^th of November featured modern, contemporary and plastic issues, 1/6th Scale Action Figures, Militaria, Airfix Archive, and Britains - Unboxed Military Issues. The sale also included three private owner collections, Sally's Collection featured a large selection of Britains Models, including Britains Modern Issues (Special Collectors Edition series), Britains Farm series, including Pre-war items; Farm people, Hunt series, and cricketers, plus Miniature Household and Kitchen Utensil sets, and “Map of the World” Cows. The Franzini - Tibaldeo Collection included a wide selection of military figures and vehicles from the collection of the Roman collector Alessandro Franzini Tibaldeo, preserved and kept by Edoardo F.T. from makers such as Heyde, Haffner, Mignalu, Quiralu, Britains and others.

The third private owner collection, Connoisseur Miniatures From Russia, included 33 lots of Studios figures, from (St. Petersburg) Grenada Studios, Amber Studios, Niena and Aeroart, plus Lead Army Studios, all in 54mm scale.

The Specialist sale held on the 5^th of December featured four private owner collections plus other vendors. The 'Big' North East Collection included 1/18th Scale TV & Film related vehicles from James Bond, Back to the Future, Ghostbusters, The Fast and the Furious, and many others with Autoart, Minichamps and other groups of boxed and unboxed cars, VW vans, emergency vehicles and 1/24^th scale buses. The Belgian Diecast Collection included Dinky trucks, light commercials, racing and road cars, including French and Spanish Dinky, aircraft and military vehicles plus Corgi Gift sets, Marklin, Politoys, Mercury and Scalextric. The Oxfordshire Collection featured Highway 61 Collectibles Trucks and heavy-duty vehicles, Ertl, First gear 1/34^th scale truck groups, Sunstar buses and coaches, Norev, Maisto, and Corgi Classics. Other lots included a Private Owner Collection of 1/50^th scale trucks from Tekno, WSI models and Collectibles; plus, CMC, Spark, Bang and others racing cars; Pathfinder, Lansdown and Brooklin, Corgi Farm related, Matchbox models of Yesteryear, superfast and regular wheels, plus Franklin Mint fire engines.

Day 2 of the Military, Civilian Figures, Equipment & Accessories sale took place on Tuesday the 27^th of November, it featured further Modern, Contemporary, Plastic, and Civilian Issues plus Militaria. Boxed and Unboxed Military Issues from Britains were also up for auction, including Special Editions & Paris Office. There were Composition & Tinplate Figures, Vehicles & Accessories, Plastic Issues - Connoisseur Selection, and further Connoisseur Miniatures From Russia. The sale also included Britains Specials By Roy Selwyn-Smith, Britains chief designer and director. Probably unique, the 24 lots have been painted to collectors’ standards by Roy.

The Specialist & Tinplate toy sale started with 200 lots of tinplate & plastic, including Triang UK, Hong Kong Plastic, Japanese, European and American, friction drive, battery operated and clockwork toys. Including cars, lorry’s and trucks, boats and ships, aircraft, live steam models, plus novelty toys, gift, biscuit and sweet tins, meccano and reference books. The sale followed with the Ex Lesney Matchbox Employee Collection which featured factory Pre-Production & colour trial Matchbox Superfast models, Brazilian Issue Models, Standard Production Issues, Unboxed Models and Regular Wheels.