https://www.inyourarea.co.uk/news/auction-runcorn-house-action-man-autumn-2022/
While the Vectis Toy Soldier Sale in on Monday (this Monnday), no nice mixed 'junk' lots, and far too much 'new metal' for my liking (as always!), but some quality mint/boxed Timpo and Britains among them for those who's pockets might be a tad deeper thann mine!
I'm unlikely to go back to the full Friday 'Forthcoming Dates/Events posts for a while yet, but when I do, I will probably simplify them; I've noticed they can choke-up some search results, so they will be tagged less for starters! And when I'm feeling strong, I'll go back and clean up all 150-odd of the old ones!
No comment!
and for when the listing has long gone . . .
Madness!
Next two Vectis auctions are later today and tomorrow; nice things in both . . .
Thursday 3rd December 2020
10:00am
TV and Movie Related Sale - starts 10:00hrs
"The TV and Film related sale to be held on the 3rd of December features an interesting collection from a Hasbro employee, items include standard samples and prototypes, from Transformers, Robin Hood Prince of Thieves, and Star Wars. Further items in the sale include Action Man vintage equipment, accessories, outfits, vehicles and figures. Star Wars carded and loose vintage figures, Legacy Collection and 30th Anniversary collection; Planet of the Apes carded figures, Dr Who, Austin Powers, Lord of the Rings, He-Man Masters of the Universe, Star Trek and Superhero figures. The sale will also include My Little Pony, Mezco Studiocraft Enchantica figurines, Cherlilea Military vehicles, books, magazines, annuals, Lego, signed photographs and displays, and games."
Friday 4th December 2020
James Bond '007' and Specialist Die Cast Sale - starts 10:00hrs
"The James Bond and Specialist diecast sale to be held on the 4th of December starts with The Buckinghamshire Collection which features vehicles from Autoart, Minichamps, Kyosho, Corgi and Johnny Lightning, plus slot cars from Carrera and Scalextric. James Bond figures also feature, from Corgi, Action Man, Sideshow and Exclusive Toy productions, and the collection includes gift sets, props, books, memorabilia, and promotional items. The Sussex Collection features Corgi Gift sets promotional sets and posters, and The 50 Years of Bond Collection includes further Corgi vehicles and gift sets, Limited Edition Gift Sets, Autoart, Kyosho, Little Soldiers James Bond sets, figures, guns and pistols, Corgi Icon Figures, original and replica props, DVDs/VHS, advertising material, posters, and signed framed pictures. The sale will also include Part 2 of The Kempshott Collection, featuring Dinky buses and coaches, pre-war train sets and French Dinky; The Ian Townell Lotus Collection, a Mechanical Horse Collection and further items."
*************************************
The ongoing global health scare means various special instructions are still in place . . .
COVID -
19 RESTRICTIONS
Please note there is still NO viewing, or attendance in person at these
Auctions.
Absentee bids can be emailed to admin@vectis.co.uk, or placed via the Vectis or
Invaluable website, up until 2 hrs prior to the auction commencing.
ON THE DAY OF THE SALE, LIVE BIDDING is available on www.vectis.co.uk or
www.invaluable.com, or TELEPHONE BIDDING can be arranged.
For telephone bidding please contact Vectis prior to the day of the auction. We will arrange for you to be involved live via telephone on the day of the sale. We will call you two or three lots prior to the lot being offered for auction.
There is no charge for telephone bidding.
SHIPPING
Please be aware there is still a slight delay with our current despatch times.
Our packing team have been working hard to catch up with the 5 weeks closure we experienced in March/April. When we re-opened in April we did so with a skeleton staff, we are now back to full capacity and they have been working tirelessly to ensure your parcels are packed as quickly and professionally as possible; the team are now currently packing and despatching September Sales.
We thank you for your understanding and patience in these unprecedented times.
COLLECTION
If you wish to collect items, we would ask customers to first call and pay for their purchases. Ask for a collection appointment date and time. This will allow the packing team to prepare your items and have them ready for you, reducing waiting times.
PLEASE ENSURE YOU WEAR A MASK WHEN COLLECTING LOTS (UNLESS EXEMPT)
Please note we will be closing for the Christmas break on Thursday 24th December
and will reopen Monday 4th of January 2021.
If you would like to collect your Lots before we close, please contact the office
to arrange a collection date and time.
And Vectis
can - as always - be contacted here;
Vectis Auctions
Fleck Way, Thornaby, Stockton-on-Tees,
TS17 9JZ
Web. - www.vectis.co.uk
eMail - admin@vectis.co.uk
Tel - +44 (0) 1642 750616
Fax - +44 (0) 1642 769478
Sales [currently] commence at 10:30hrs 10:00hrs
Sothern Office
Unit 5A, West End Industrial Estate, Witney, Oxfordshire, OX28 1UB
Tel - +44 (0)1993 709 424
A Connecticut estate-auction is coming up on-line, with 'Lead Toy Soldiers' and 'Metal Toys & Figurines' in the descriptive blurb it may be worth a looksee?
While Vivian Lord made the evening news on CBS and it looks like the 'Army Gals' will be out for Christmas, but what will be generally available as true toys, and what's only available as go-fund-me pre-order specials isn't made clear? She was briefly on Reddit too, but the post was removed?
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/christmas-how-a-7-year-old-won-the-battle-to-make-female-toy-soldiers/
I didn't realise Rahway was PSTSM! Oh well; he'll prove useful! In the meantime:
https://www.facebook.com/events/512899045951704/And riveting Rosie's on Motherly, I wonder if Rahway will find a different link to the same story for this one!
OTS's autumn number is now available in the Tradition shop
https://www.traditionoflondonshop.com/product_info.php?products_id=17149
Coverage of Tarn-et-Garonne: the Toy Museum of Montauban
https://theblend.ie/tarn-et-garonne-the-toy-museum-of-montauban-is-tf1s-christmas-favorite/
JFK and the Black Watch - 1963
This Is Colossal
https://www.thisiscolossal.com/2020/11/simon-laveuve-miniatures/
and
https://www.thisiscolossal.com/2015/09/miniature-calendar/ (more at the end of the article - Preiser again!)
Looking out of the window (4-p.m. Wednesday) and I see something which looks vaguely apocalyptic, or a scene from The Birds; a mini-tornado type gust has just passed through the neighbourhood, ripping all the remaining leaves off the trees over the road and they are now whirling around in huge clouds, in the failing light, like demented starlings and falling on everything like a damp, brown snow of contaminated alien poop!
There's a definite malaise setting in; while it's nice we have two vaccines and they both seem effective, Trump's lost and Cummings' gone, the problems, locally, nationally and globally are greater than Biden can sort in an instant or even in four years, while the Orange Loon is determined to do as much damage (particularly to America's standing abroad) in the next two months as he has in the last four years and is clearly trying to create the atmosphere for revolution, without being blamed for it, if it happens, while there are plenty of idiots to be fed his idiollogy, not wear masks, buy gas-guzzlers/patio heaters/trailer-mounted BBQ's and the like as if there's a Planet B to go to and generally carry on like there's no problems at all - even though they know damn-well there are or they wouldn't be voting for these gobshite snake-oil salesmen!.
But seasonal depression, Covid and other things are bearing down on everyone as well, now, I think, tempers are short, motivation is lacking and even when you've got the stuff and shot it, it seems to sit on the desktop while you opine on Faceplant from bedtime-to-bedtime!
Amusing that having got a bit of mojo back the other day I seem to have woken TJF as well! And he's going to give us what I posted on a mutual Faceplant group weeks ago, having bought them in . . . just to follow me [again!!]? How sweet! I'll put mine on the back burner and carry-on with new-to-hobby/Blog/internet, Polish small-scale!
Anyway, roundabout way of saying I forgot Tuesday's Vectis sale despite having the info' for a couple of weeks, soz! Better quickly tell you about tomorrow's sale while there's still time to follow it up!
Lot 3610
(loving that A/Car!)
Specialist & Tinplate Toy Sale
Thursday 19th November 2020 - Starts 10:00hrs
"The Specialist and Tinplate toy sale to be held on the 19th of November starts with Part 2 of The Argentinian Collection, featuring over 200 lots of Matchbox Regular wheels, plus King Size, Yesteryear and catalogues, the collection includes cars and commercials, buses, military, construction and emergency vehicles. Tinplate & Plastic lots include clockwork, friction drive, battery and steam operated models from Mettoy, Bing, Schuco, Tipp & Co, and many others and includes vintage Scalextric cars, Britains, Meccano and a very scarce large scale Remote Control Military Jeep. The sale continues with Part 2 of The Mike Linham Fire Engine Collection and a further Private Owner Collection, features construction vehicles, Corgi Aviation archive and Airfix amongst others."
*************************************
The ongoing global health scare means various special instructions are still in place . . .
COVID - 19 RESTRICTIONS
Please note
there is still NO viewing, or attendance in person at these Auctions.
Absentee bids
can be emailed to admin@vectis.co.uk, or placed via the Vectis or Invaluable
website, up until 2 hrs prior to the auction commencing.
ON THE DAY OF
THE SALE, LIVE BIDDING is available on www.vectis.co.uk or www.invaluable.com,
or TELEPHONE BIDDING can be arranged.
For telephone bidding please contact Vectis prior to the day of the auction. We will arrange for you to be involved live via telephone on the day of the sale. We will call you two or three lots prior to the lot being offered for auction.
There is no charge for telephone bidding.
SHIPPING
Please be aware there is still a slight delay with our current despatch times.
Our packing team have been working hard to catch up with the 5 weeks closure we experienced in March/April. When we re-opened in April we did so with a skeleton staff, we are now back to full capacity and they have been working tirelessly to ensure your parcels are packed as quickly and professionally as possible; the team are now currently packing and despatching September Sales.
We thank you for your understanding and patience in these unprecedented times.
COLLECTION
If you wish to collect items, we would ask customers to first call and pay for their purchases. Ask for a collection appointment date and time. This will allow the packing team to prepare your items and have them ready for you, reducing waiting times.
PLEASE ENSURE YOU WEAR A MASK WHEN COLLECTING LOTS (UNLESS EXEMPT)
And Vectis can - as always
- be contacted here;
Vectis Auctions
Fleck Way, Thornaby, Stockton-on-Tees, TS17 9JZ
Web. - www.vectis.co.uk
eMail - admin@vectis.co.uk
Tel - +44 (0) 1642 750616
Fax - +44 (0) 1642 769478
Sales [currently] commence at 10:30hrs 10:00hrs
Southern Office:
Unit 5A, West End Industrial Estate, Witney, Oxfordshire, OX28 1UB
Tel - +44 (0)1993 709 424
All sorts this week (excuses that is!), and forgot Monday's Teddy Bear sale at Vectis, today's is a general toy sale and I'll post something better later but here's a piccy and a link . . .
Lot 1022
Online catalogue and PDF here;
https://www.vectis.co.uk/auction/general-toy-sale-850-1
Airfix Blog
I've added yesterday's rubber key-ring knight to the Sheriff of Nottinham page on the Airfix figures Blog (http://airfixfigs.blogspot.com/2010/06/1964-sheriff-of-nottingham-s21-hooo.html), probably not something you need to rush off and look at again, but it's done!
Sad News
Don Pielin, giant in the hollow-cast branch of our hobby has gone off to play with his toys for all eternity; an obituary page has been set-up here.
Another fellow-collector; Steven C Rowe, has passed-away, and Covid-19 has been fingered as the culprit. More here onWYDaily where they may also make you watch a video on why you should be wearing your mask!
Forthcoming Auction
Norman Joplin's Old Toy Soldier Newsletter are holding their 'OTSA 58' auction as an online event on Sunday 8th November (just over a week) more details here;
https://www.facebook.com/events/261020408579198
Toy Shows
With the above in mind, I will not be publicising toy soldier shows or toy fairs until we have got a grip on novel corona viruses full stop. It's quite easy once you understand the science; either you are
You should be wearing a mask whenever and wherever you can! Not just when you absolutely have to, but at every opportunity; it's a virulent killer and it's airborne! It's only modern medicine which is preventing higher death-tolls, and a quick mutation over the winter could still see death-tolls rise sharply, in the meantime people continue to die, every day.
There have been two toy soldiers shows recently and two toy fairs, they were all in the US and all poorly attended and rightly-so.
Recent coverage of a toy soldier show has one chap with his mask off his nose, I hope he gets a worse dose than his President (if you believe his President ever had it!), another is shown with his mask pulled under his chin . . . fuckwit, if he dies I won't be posting his obit'!
People promoting, dealing or buying at shows - right now - lack basic common sense, or have consciously surrendered common-sense in preference for serving their greed.
End of October press releases for Vectis Actions, which kicks off with tomorrow's sale on Fire Engines, I don't know if this is part two or the previous collection, or the previous collection rescheduled? Anyway Fire Engines tomorrow!
"The Mike Linham Fire Engine Collection to be held on the 20th of October features over 600 lots of boxed and unboxed models, including Fire Engines, Fire Chief cars and vehicles, Station houses, boats and Horse Drawn wagons. The collection includes scarce models, sets, presentation sets, trade boxes and kits and includes tinplate, plastic, pressed steel, and diecast. Manufacturers include Marklin, Schuco, Mettoy, Timpo, Chad Valley, Charles Rossignol, Hubley, and Lego plus Corgi, Dinky, Triang Spot-On, Lledo and many others."
Lot 4361
Thursday 22nd October 2020 10:00am
Specialist Matchbox & Modern Die Cast Sale - starts 10:00hrs
"The Specialist sale to be held on the 22nd of October starts with The Californian Collection, a nice selection of Dinky vehicles, Trade packs, Sets and accessories, plus catalogues and promotional ephemera, Pre-War, French Dinky and rare variations. The sale continues with a Dinky Ex-Shop Stock Collection, 18 lots of Dinky aircraft, ships, military and space vehicles. Plus, The Matchbox Code 2 Collection, featuring 47 lots of Matchbox Models of Yesteryear mixed code 2 groups, and a Private Owner Collection includes road, racing, rally cars and Dioramas from manufacturers such as Vanguards, Minichamps, Spark (Minimax), Remember Models, SMTS Model, Schuco and many others. Further items include Dinky Pre-War, cars, commercials, emergency vehicles and military; Corgi, Triang Spot-On, Matchbox Superfast, and Regular Wheels, Minichamps, Revell, plus decal sheets, groups of White Metal parts and advertising literature."
Friday 13rd October 2020
Toy and Model Railway Sale - starts 10:00hrs
"The Model Train sale to be held on the 23rd of October starts with OO Gauge British Outline including part 2 of a Single Owner Collection; HO & American Outline, N Gauge and Hornby Dublo 2- & 3-rail. The sale continues with Wrenn, Triang and Triang Minic Motorway and OO Gauge Trix/Liliput, Brass and Exley OO/HO Kits/Kitbuilt. The sale will also include Meccano & Other Constructional Toys, Live Steam, Gauge 1 & Larger, G Gauge, and Hornby, further and modern O Gauge. The sale concludes with Books, Magazines, Catalogues, Railwayana/Railway Photographs, Pictures & Prints and our usual good selection of General Trains."
There's also a book and ephemera sale next tuesday (the 27th of Octotober), with a lot of old Sci-Fi paperbacks amoung the early lots and for which the blurb goes;
"The second Vectis Books and Works on Paper sale is to be held on the 27th of October. The sale will include further collections of Science Fiction and Fantasy Adventure, including Star Trek and Dr Who; Israel history, culture and wars; Military history, history and culture, Space, humour and cartoon, plus General Interest and a collection of Royal Airforce Limited Edition Autographed first day covers."
*************************************
The ongoing global health scare means various special instructions are still in place . . .
COVID - 19 RESTRICTIONS
Please note there is still NO viewing, or
attendance in person at these Auctions.
Absentee bids can be emailed to admin@vectis.co.uk,
or placed via the Vectis or Invaluable website, up until 2 hrs prior to the
auction commencing.
ON THE DAY OF THE SALE, LIVE BIDDING is available
on www.vectis.co.uk or www.invaluable.com, or TELEPHONE BIDDING
can be arranged.
For telephone bidding please contact Vectis prior to the day of the auction. We will arrange for you to be involved live via telephone on the day of the sale. We will call you two or three lots prior to the lot being offered for auction.
There is no charge for telephone bidding.
SHIPPING
Please be aware there is still a slight delay with our current despatch times.
Our packing team have been working hard to catch up with the 5 weeks closure we experienced in March/April. When we re-opened in April we did so with a skeleton staff, we are now back to full capacity and they have been working tirelessly to ensure your parcels are packed as quickly and professionally as possible; the team are now currently packing and despatching September Sales.
We thank you for your understanding and patience in these unprecedented times.
COLLECTION
If you wish to collect items, we would ask customers to first call and pay for their purchases. Ask for a collection appointment date and time. This will allow the packing team to prepare your items and have them ready for you, reducing waiting times.
PLEASE ENSURE YOU WEAR A MASK
WHEN COLLECTING LOTS (UNLESS EXEMPT)
And Vectis can - as always - be contacted here;
Stockton-on-Tees - Vectis Auctions
Fleck Way, Thornaby, Stockton-on-Tees, TS17 9JZ
Web. - www.vectis.co.uk
eMail - admin@vectis.co.uk
Tel - +44 (0) 1642 750616
Fax - +44 (0) 1642 769478
Sales [currently] commence at 10:30hrs 10:00hrs
Sothern Office (which is advertising for a part-time driver)
Unit 5A, West End Industrial Estate, Witney, Oxfordshire, OX28 1UB
Tel - +44 (0)1993 709 424
I'm not being lazy in this hiatus, just idle! I've translated the ID info on 150-odd Russian brands and looked in depth at one of the later combines, which only serves to confuse the former as the "plants" of the later, retained as 'brand-marks', the former's "factory" 'brands'!
I've also got more Polish follow-ups in the pipeline, caught up with the condolence correspondence; apologies to anyone who wore a 'new' Christian name; I C&P'ed the first paragraph as it was all still a bit raw. Thank you all, both private messages and the post commentators.
And - best fun of all; one of TJF's shills tried to get me banned from another site, only problem with his grand plan being . . . he had to admit, in his complaint, to being both the people he was denying being one-half-of, in one of the private 'Mails . . . summing up the general level of innate stupidity which has accompanied all members of the PSTSM and their associates, in their dealings with me since the forked-tongue attacks of December 2016.
In the meantime we've had a press release from Vectis about this week's auctions and advance warning of the stuff latter in the month.
"The TV and Film related sale to be held on the 13th October features a large collection of Vintage and Modern Star Wars items, including loose and carded figures, accessories and vehicles, plush items, Silver Anniversary Editions, Convention Exclusives and Gentle Giant carded figures. Further items include Transformers, Action Man, Batman, Terrahawks, Harry Potter, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, and He-Man. Plus diecast vehicles, Bigtrak, Tomas The Tank and other trains, Funko POP, and vintage games, comics and books. The sale will also include Care Bears, My little Pony, beanie babies and Disney Beanies, posters, and autographed displays."
Lot 1444
Thursday 15th October 2020 10:00am
Specialist Die Cast Sale
Matchbox Sale Featuring The Bruce King Collection Part 1 & The Mike Linham Fire Engine Collection Part 1 - starts 10:00hrs
"The Matchbox sale to be held on the 15th October features two impressive collections. The sale starts with Part 1 of the Bruce King Collection which includes over 340 lots of cars, commercials, buses and farm vehicles from Regular Wheels, Accessory & Major Packs, King Size and Models of Yesteryear. The Mike Linham Fire Engine Collection features Regular Wheels, King Size, Models of Yesteryear, Superfast, Super Kings & Speed Kings, and includes cars, engines and trucks, plus gift sets, fire stations, and horse drawn."
Friday 16th October 2020
General Toy Sale - starts 10:00hrs
"The General Toy sale to be held on the 16th of October features a number of boxed and unboxed groups from manufacturers such as Vanguard, Corgi, Matchbox, Minichamps, EFE and Lledo, plus single lots of Oldcars boxed transporters, Brooklin models, Corgi Haulier of Renown, Original Omnibus Company and Aviation Archive. Further lots include Scalextric, Airfix kits, vintage computer games and consoles, Lego, children toys, books and magazines, CDs and DVDs, plus football programmes and cabinets."
The ongoing global health scare (global except for Singapore, New Zealand, Vietnam . . . South Korea et al!) means various special instructions are still in place . . .
COVID - 19 RESTRICTIONS
Please note there is still NO viewing, or
attendance in person at these Auctions.
Absentee bids can be emailed to admin@vectis.co.uk,
or placed via the Vectis or Invaluable website, up until 2 hrs prior to the
auction commencing.
ON THE DAY OF THE SALE, LIVE BIDDING is available
on www.vectis.co.uk or www.invaluable.com, or TELEPHONE BIDDING
can be arranged.
For telephone bidding please contact Vectis prior to the day of the auction. We will arrange for you to be involved live via telephone on the day of the sale. We will call you two or three lots prior to the lot being offered for auction.
There is no charge for telephone bidding.
SHIPPING
Please be aware there is still a slight delay with our current despatch times.
Our packing team have been working hard to catch up with the 5 weeks closure we experienced in March/April. When we re-opened in April we did so with a skeleton staff, we are now back to full capacity and they have been working tirelessly to ensure your parcels are packed as quickly and professionally as possible; the team are now currently packing and despatching September Sales.
We thank you for your understanding and patience in these unprecedented times.
COLLECTION
If you wish to collect items, we would ask customers to first call and pay for their purchases. Ask for a collection appointment date and time. This will allow the packing team to prepare your items and have them ready for you, reducing waiting times.
PLEASE ENSURE YOU WEAR A MASK
WHEN COLLECTING LOTS (UNLESS EXEMPT)
And Vectis can - as always - be contacted here;
Stockton-on-Tees - Vectis Auctions
Fleck Way, Thornaby, Stockton-on-Tees, TS17 9JZ
Web. - www.vectis.co.uk
eMail - admin@vectis.co.uk
Tel - +44 (0) 1642 750616
Fax - +44 (0) 1642 769478
Sales [currently] commence at 10:30hrs 10:00hrs
Sothern Office (which is advertising for a part-time driver)
Unit 5A, West End Industrial Estate, Witney, Oxfordshire, OX28 1UB
Tel - +44 (0)1993 709 424
Heads-up - Forthcomming sales for later in the month
Tuesday 20th October 2020 - The Mike Linham Fire Engine Collection Part 2
Thursday 22nd October 2020 - Specialist Diecast Sale (this is a date change)
Friday 23rd October 2020 - Model Train Sale
Tuesday 27th October 2020 - Books & Works on Paper Sale
