A two day sale on Tuesday 20th and
Wednesday 21st of March is mostly dedicated to the sale of what can only be
called a 'signature' or 'reference' collection. I've seen the catalogue and
it's quite amazing, although not much for toy figure collectors per se; there are some items of
interest.
The collection is of 'vintage' Tri-Ang, so
not much of your 1970's plastic trains and things, this is stuff going way back
and includes many examples of early 'playroom' and garden toys, ride-on, pull
or push toys and the like.
There is also the most extensive range of
dolls houses I've ever seen in one auction and they are all Tri-Ang.
The most interesting thing about them is
that - dinky-little thatched-cottages apart - the tin-plate and wood suburban
town-houses they were well known for seem to reflect the changes in
architectural fashion from the first inter-war Deco styling, through the faux
Arts-&-Craft, to the post war expansions and the simpler designs of the
1960's, houses which some of my mates' sisters had.
Also notable is the numbers of colours they
used over the years, I was left (by the houses of my youth and most of those
I've seen since) thinking they were usually cream with green woodwork, but
blue, dark brown and black abound for detailing, while brickworks are also
white, grey or yellow - among the soberer shades. If you know someone who
collects dolls' houses, this is one of those 'once a decade' sales they really
should try and attend.
Where some followers of this Blog may be more
interested is in the tin-plate and vehicle section of the sale, some having
animals as cargo, several toys have the wheeled animals we looked at here a
while ago and indeed; there is at least one of the Noah's Arks in the same with
a full complement of animals.
There are also wide ranges of the later,
smaller Minic's, and even some lovely sets of the late plastic military ones, a
few of which I covered here back at the beginning of the Blog eight or nine
years ago, in fact - we looked at the log-wagon and crawler-tractor not that
long ago.
It's not a sale for figure collectors, but
it's a sale any other old toy collectors should be more than interested in, and everyone should be trying to get hold of a catalogue.
Some of the other dates for forthcoming
sales at SAS in the first half of 2018 include a figure-heavy sale the
following week, two train auctions and a single-owner die-cast collection along
with another vintage sale in June.
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