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RE: My favorite toy as a child
Very collectible and a long time ago my Dad worked for Dinky and many other big toy companies. So we used to get a lot of toys as kids.
A few years ago Dad auctioned a number of the toys that he had left from his working days and had long been retired now. He certainly had one or two of the these particular toys and boxed, yep boxed - I think he sold one for a staggering £300.
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Wow 300 quid would be nice. He did well hanging on to it for so long unopened
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It would have been a sample he had when travelling to toy fairs up and down the country, across the channel to Germany where there some phenomenal fairs. I recall the one in Nuremberg being a favourite of his.
Not bad for a guy who started off as a policeman, then bumped into an old friend who knew he was bored of the Police force and got him a job with Meccano! If I’ve spelt that right and that would have been just before I was born in the early 70s.