22 21st January 2012 toy reports British & International Toy Auctions
The 1966 Nomura battery-operated Batman robot was among them and is today a must for serious collectors of both pop culture toys and robots. It was no surprise to see the ex-shop stock example offered by Special Auction Services on October 6-7 bring £1900. Bonhams sold another example in similar condition last year for £2400. The Nomura Batman pictured left is one of more than 2000 lots of toys, trains, advertising and rare comics for sale at Morphy Auctions’ first sale of 2012 in Denver, Pennsylvania on February 9-11. It is estimated at $4000-8000.
Jan. 19-20 Jan. 20 Jan 24
Jan. 26-28 Jan. 27 Jan. 28 Feb. 2 Feb. 3 Feb. 3
Feb. 9-11 Feb. 10 Feb. 11 Feb. 13
Feb. 21-24 Feb. 23 Feb. 24 Feb. 25 Feb. 25 Feb. 28 Mar. 10 Mar. 10 Mar. 16 Mar. 17 Mar. 19 Mar. 20 Mar. 20 Mar. 21 Mar. 21
Mar. 23-24 Mar. 24 Mar. 24 Mar. 24
Mar. 27-28 Mar. 29-30 Mar. 30-31
Special Auction Services, Newbury (01635 580 595)
www.specialauctionservices.com Biddle & Webb, Birmingham (0121 455 8042)
www.biddleandwebb.co.uk Collectors Sale, Dreweatts, Bristol (0117 973 7201)
www.dnfa.com/bristol Lankes Auktionen, Dohlau, Germany
www.lankes-auktionen.com Model Trains, Vectis, Thornaby (01642 750616)
www.vectis.co.uk Aston’s, Dudley (0138 4250220)
www.astonsauctioneers.co.uk
Thomson Roddick & Medcalf, Edinburgh (0131 440 2448)
www.thomsonroddick.com Durrants, Beccles (01502 713490)
www.durrants.com T.W. Gaze, Diss (01379 650306)
www.twgaze.com Morphys, Denver, Pennsylvania,
www.morphyauctions.com Tennants, Leyburn (01969 623780)
www.tennants.co.uk
Toys and trains, Galerie de Chartres, France
www.galeriedechartres.com Wallis & Wallis, Lewes (01273 480208)
www.wallisandwallis.co.uk
Diecasts, tinplate, model trains, Vectis, Thornaby (01642 750616)
www.vectis.co.uk Bushey Auctions, Watford (020 8386 2552)
www.busheyauctions.com Sheffield Auction Gallery, (0114 281 6161)
www.sheffieldauctiongallery.com Aston’s, Dudley (0138 4250220)
www.astonsauctioneers.co.uk
A.E. Dowse & Son, Sheffield (0114 272 5858)
www.aedowseandson.com Toys, Dolls, Teddy Bears Bonhams, Oxford (01865 853 640)
www.bonhams.com Antico Mondo, Cologne, Germany
www.anticomondo.de Cottees, Wareham, Dorset (01929 552826)
www.cottees.co.uk
Cotswold Auction Company, Cirencester (01285 642420)
www.cotswoldauction.co.uk Dolls, Galerie de Chartres, France
www.galeriedechartres.com Wallis & Wallis, Lewes (01273 480208)
www.wallisandwallis.co.uk Toovey’s, Washington, West Sussex (01903 891955)
www.tooveys.com Transport Sale, Dreweatts, Bristol (0117 973 7201)
www.dnfa.com/bristol Toy soldiers, Vectis, Thornaby (01642 750616)
www.vectis.co.uk
Warwick & Warwick, Scar Bank, Warwick (01926 499 031)
www.warwickandwarwick.com Bertoia Auctions, Vineland, New Jersey
www.bertoiaauctions.com Model Trains, Vectis, Rugby (01642 750616)
www.vectis.co.uk Aston’s, Dudley (0138 4250220)
www.astonsauctioneers.co.uk
Dee Atkinson & Harrison, Driffield (01377 25315)
www.dee-atkinson-harrison.co.uk Diecasts and general toys, Vectis, Thornaby (01642 750616)
www.vectis.co.uk Special Auction Services, Newbury (01635 580 595)
www.specialauctionservices.com Alino Auktionen, Bad Dürkheim, Germany
www.alino-auktionen.de
Above: Dinky pre-War No.22 Motor Vehicles Gift Set, £19,000 at Vectis. Ireland sets a gold standard
THORNABY’S finest Vectis have auctioned some exceptional Dinky collections over the past decade, but what made the November 22 David Ireland collection sale stand out was quality over quantity. The average lot price across a relatively modest 365 lots was £1000. Ireland, a surgeon who was born
in Redcar in the early 1950s began collecting over 30 years ago. As a child during the so-called golden age of Dinky Toys, his collection included all of the classic models from the ‘50s and early ‘60s but his great passion was for the pre-War models. These comprised half of his collection
and serious collectors and elite dealers from the UK, Europe, Canada, America, South Africa, Argentina, Japan and Dubai were among those drawn to the countless rarities in the sale. It gives a taste of the collection that
there were no less than 45 first type delivery vans (most of them free of the metal fatigue that can blight these
models) and more than a dozen boxed gift sets to choose from. Among the rarest of the standard
issue No.28 vans is that for Hornby Trains in orange rather than the more typical yellow. David Ireland’s example was considered a superb example and sold for £8000. Another collecting ‘holy grail’ is the
Modelled Miniatures No.22 box set c.1933-35 comprising the first six issues from the Dinky range – an open sports car, a sports coupe, a motor truck, delivery van, tractor and army tank. The example here, with six near mint vehicles and a ‘good-plus’ box, was as good as they get and fetched £19,000. Prices have not been seen at this level
since March 2008 when Vectis sold one of only two known boxed sets of six Type 1 vans bearing nationally recognised trade names for £30,000 and a one- of-a-kind van bearing the name W.E. Boyce, a cycle shop on the Archway Road in Highgate in the 1930s, for a record £17,000.
Above: this ensemble of approximately 900 painted infantry and cavalry are part of a huge holding of 250,000 soldiers and figures spanning a period from Antiquity to the Great War. They come from the Citadelle de Belle Ile en Mer, the Vauban-designed fortress off the Atlantic coast, and Piasa will be offering them for sale at Drouot, Paris on January 26. The vast collection which includes flat-back figures from Nuremberg as well as figures from other makers and countries, will be divided into around 250 lots for the auction.
www.piasa.fr
Auctioneers are asked to send details of specialist toy sales, as well as those sales that may contain significant book and ephemera sections, to: Roland Arkell Tel: (020) 7420 6686 •
rolandarkell@atgmedia.com
Above: Dinky No.28A Hornby Trains van in orange, £8000 at Vectis.
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