Some of the first Dinky Toys ever made have fetched almost £50,000 at auction. Two boxes containing 12 rare delivery vans from the firm's infancy in 1933 were snapped up by a private collector.

The Dinky Toy collection has recently sold for an eye-watering £87,520 at the Simply Dinky Auction. One of the items even fetched a world record price going under the hammer for £2,570 which is ...

Dinky toys are 1/43 scale die-cast models of boats, trains, trucks, cars and aeroplanes. They were launched in 1934 by Frank Hornby to put alongside his train sets.

A rare collection of five vintage toy vans has sold at an auction for nearly £9,000. The Dinky Toys vans, which were made in 1934-1935, were discovered in a drawer by the original owner's son.

A classic toy car has sold on eBay for almost £1,000 after inspiring a mini bidding war from 29 collectors. The Dinky Toy Oldsmobile fetched £992 when it sold on the online auction site earlier this ...

Die-cast die-hards met in St. John's on Saturday to trade toys and tales about their shared hobby. On Facebook, there are 400 members of a group for dinky collectors in Newfoundland and Labrador.

The second record was set by the sale of Lot 52, a Dinky pre-war No 22D W.E. Boyce Type 1 delivery van which had a pre-sale estimate of £7,000-£10,000, but sold for £20,000.

A Dinky toy lorry achieved a world record price when it was sold at auction yesterday. The maroon eight-wheeled Foden chain lorry fetched £12,000 when it was sold by auction house Vectis, of ...