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The
French Collection, a sale to remember!
Regular Vectis customers, and avid Dinky
Toy collectors, may remember the phenomenal David Ireland collection which was
held at the North East Auction house in 2011.
Many of the pre-war boxed sets from that
collection realised record breaking prices, and the sale at the time was
described as “one of the finest private owner collections ever to come onto the
market”. A number of those sets were bought by a single buyer, who has now
decided the time is right to part with some of his collection. And the quality
of those lots is still as magnificent today as they were eight years ago.
The collection includes the Hornby Series
No.22 motor vehicles set, which at the time sold for a record price of £22,800
(inclusive of Buyers Premium), the set includes an Army Tank, Delivery Van,
Sports Car, Motor Truck, Sports Coupe and Farm tractor. It has been described
as a bright example of a hard and rare to find set and graded Excellent Plus to
Near Mint, contained in a generally Good to Excellent blue patterned lift off
lid box with original card.
Another pre-war set, this time no. 24
“Motor Cars” set is in a later type wide box with display insert and contains
24a Ambulance, 24c Town Sedan, 24d Vogue Saloon, 24e Super Streamlined
Saloon, 24f Sportsman's Coupe, 24g Sports Tourer 2-seater and 24h Sports
Tourer 4-seater, conditions overall are generally Good to Excellent (although
some are showing signs of fatigue) however they are still beautiful examples in
a hard to find set.
The French Collection, consists of the some
of the finest examples of pre-war sets, including Gift Sets, Trade Boxes,
Aeroplane sets, plus many superb single models.
The catalogue is now online to view, and
the sale will be held on Tuesday the 5th of November - a date, definitely to
remember, and starts at the earlier time of 10am.
For further information please contact
Andrew Reed on 01642 750616 or email admin@vectis.co.uk
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Vectis's contact details:
Stockton-on-Tees - Vectis Auctions
Fleck Way, Thornaby, Stockton-on-Tees, TS17
9JZ
Web. - www.vectis.co.uk
eMail - admin@vectis.co.uk
Tel. - 01642 750 616
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