Slough Toyfair

[SMS88]

Traditional tin badges are probably the only sort of forum merchandise that everyone is comfortable wearing and they are also discrete!

[matchboxmarcel]

The Cragstan pieces are nice. I have them in clear plastic boxes on cards. Is the 4 piece box you show a custom made set or?
Can you show more of the set box?
I have some of these.
When is the next Windsor ?

I was only once in Windsor to visit the castle (in 1985) but I never got to that fair.
Good to place on my wantlist to visit as within reach from London

marcel

[YYS4BOB]

The box was a home made affair. Just a block of polystyrene hacked out to fit the models in. They were in good condition though.

[GHOSTHUNTER]

Hello matchboxmarcel,

The 'GRAGSTAN' set does look as if the seperate models have been put together in the blue box, with the polystyrene inner, reworked to allow the models to fit and they do fit very well, I just wonder what happened to the original packaging for the models.

I have posted more pictures of the models in the "MATCHBOX" copies thread, in the Lounge, see you there.

GHOSTHUNTER.

[nickjones]

Ghostie cut short the Slough toyfair report.
After meeting Jason and doing a quick trade with him Ghostie and I continued to trawl the tables, not expecting to find anything because Jason had already been around the hall twice and had just gone home. Highlights of the day were a mint yellow hub Alvis Stalwart for £12, a fair black poles trolleybus for £7 and a very nice 72a Fordson Tractor with fine tread front hubs for £4, Also a red Y-6 Bugatti for just £2 and a repainted 46a Morris Minor gpw dark green that I might be able to recover, I was going to get a coffee and a roll from the canteen but Ghostie says that he has a flask of tea and sandwiches in his car and invited me to partake, On leaving the hall we stopped to chat to John Moore, (who just happened to have a M&B 74a sea green base canteen for sale at £320 Jason).
And 5 minutes later saw us sitting in deckchairs sipping tea and eating cucumber sandwiches on the grass verge behind Ghosties Rolls Royce. How very English!.
The gold Miura was a trade with Jason.

[johnboy]

Nice finds Nick, isn't it funny how we all picked up different but desirable things? Did you see the minty Lomas with roof guides and bpw? it was on a table in the first aisle for £20, I was called away for a while at the crucial moment and when I came back it had gone

[nickjones]

Hi John, No I did not see the Lomas, I only wish that I had seen it, I have the first version of the 14c Lomas in white/bpw/cross outline but it is almost paintless as I had to remove a lot of overpainting from it.

[GHOSTHUNTER]

Nick has cut short the Slough toy fair report.

After the snack behind my Rolls, we stripped off and ran naked across the car park...........................................OH NO sorry, that's for next week.

GHOSTY.

[motorman]

Can't wait Ghosty

[ford_a_30]

Each of you pulled more amazing finds out of that 1 toy fair then most of us without toy shows will find in a year. Not that I'm slightly green with envy or anything.