Stories from a 1979 Collectors Gazette

[kerbside]

Two very interesting pictures about models.



The story with this picture is about selling his collection of 1-75 model as he needs the money, in his hand is the nice Green 11a Tanker.

He is saying a crazy price as it has sentimental value to him, but as he is asking the princely sum of 25 pounds so he does not expect to sell it.



Just an advert from a dealer in America, but even back then the Air Mail postage was 5 pound.

I have the First Edition, and three other 1979 Gazettes and it interesting to see that most of the Toy Fairs were mainly selling trains old and new and very few adverts for die-cast models. ( But they soon took over at the Toy Fairs)

The First UK Toy Fair I went to was in 1984 and that was at Farnam-Maltings, run by Eric Creak and not any trains in sight.

George T.

[kwakers]

That is quite the ad you have shown us George. The price on the Airmail has definitely not kept up with the Lesney toy values shown here, so I guess the Planes are cheaper to fly today. Imagine a green Tanker for ONLY 25 Pounds....WOW
kwakers

[YYS4BOB]

The First UK Toy Fair I went to was in 1984 and that was at Farnam-Maltings, run by Eric Creak and not any trains in sight.

George T.

The best toy fair in the UK at one time, especially for YY's. '84 was before Eric started with the badges, the first one of those was September '86. I used to go two or three times a year. Initially there were three fairs per year, rising to four per year in '89 when the May date was added.
Happy Days.

[Fred7A]

I used to really enjoy going to Farnham swapmeet in the 90s. It was a great event - you had to be careful to make sure you didn't miss any of the odd little rooms there. It seemed to go downhill rapidly at the end, which was a real shame.

[Rob]

Out of interest does anyone know what happened to the collector the feature is about, Dave Wallace. I am guessing that he would be in his 70s now seeing as the article is about 37 years old and he looks mid 30s ish then.

[Brad Pittiful]

this is where a time machine would be great to have