The rarest model was a Dinky ... were "very much a grey-haired audience" who were willing to spend a lot of money "to recreate their youth". "When we were young we didn't have as many toys as ...

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.

A private collection of rare 1930s Dinky toys has gone on public display ... The colours are beautiful and some of the items are very rare indeed." A museum spokesperson said: "Most of these ...

You have found a very rare Dinky Toy military gift set. It was made from 1939 until 1941. It is common to find Dinky Toys from this era with cracks in the die cast: this is known as metal fatigue.

A collection of model Dinky Toys cars accumulated over 35 years have been sold for a staggering £350,000. The rare set of around ... First of all, it is very nice to see all the interest in ...

A rare collection of five vintage toy vans has sold at an auction for nearly £9,000. The Dinky Toys vans ... when I opened the lid to reveal these very scarce vans by one of the iconic makers ...

Toy owners may be sitting on a small fortune after a collection of rare Dinky toy vans sold for ... meaning people with Dinky toys are being urged to keep an eye out on their collections.

A rare collection of Dinky toys are being auctioned on Teesside today. The cars, which came from a single owner, date from the 1930s to the 1970s. Experts predict each item will fetch between £60 ...

the French factory in Paris – kept open by the Germans – continued to produce Dinky toys. Some of those models still turn up and are very valuable because they are made in unusual colours.

Dinky Toys celebrates ... And be wary of so-called rare, undocumented, promotional one-offs.' She points out that in a rare incident, one of these undocumented toys was later discovered to be ...

Lindsey Amrani, editor of specialist magazine Model Collector, says: 'Prices have boomed for Dinky Toys since ... wary of so-called rare, undocumented, promotional one-off toys - known as code ...

The rarest model was a Dinky ... were "very much a grey-haired audience" who were willing to spend a lot of money "to recreate their youth". "When we were young we didn't have as many toys as ...