There are many wonderful aspects to life in the Outer Hebrides, but access to toyfairs, or even half decent boot sales isn't one of them. As a consequence, my source for diecasts is overwhelmingly ebay, and I cannot remember the last time I bought one elsewhere. I'm not complaining as without ebay I'd probably have a different hobby but it was really great to get something this week that didn't come in the post!. My mother lives in Edinburgh, and forwarded a rather vague ad she'd seen on Gumtree for 46 varied diecasts, asking price £20, and 3 streets away from her. Reasoning that less than 50p each is a gamble worth taking I replied to 'go for it', and as she was coming up for a break anyway, they appeared this week.
I am rather happy.
First one out of the box was the gold PA Cresta, and things stayed good all the way to the Morestone Foden at the bottom. I have a strict collecting policy of only keeping what I like rather than collecting a particular 'type' so the Foden is staying, as is the Bedford transporter and the 2 Cadillac 60 Specials. Everything else will duly be researched, cleaned and sold on, so if anyone sees anything they want/need please fire away and PM.
