End of Year Poll 2016

[Idris]

Welcome to this year’s “Finds of the Year” competition! Please read the following before entering.
• There will be six categories:
- Lesney pre-SF (i.e. pre-1970 incl. pre-Matchbox)
- Lesney post-RW (i.e. post-1969)
- Non-Lesney pre-1970 (i.e. no low-friction wheels)
- Non-Lesney post-1969 (i.e. no models subsequently converted to low-friction wheels)
- Colour trails and pre-productions (all dates, all makers)
- Restorations and customs (all dates, all makers)
• You may nominate only one model per category.
• You may add a single paragraph of text explaining why the model is so desirable. (I think this is probably a must for the non-Lesney items,)
• Nominating more than one model per category will result in none of the nominations being considered. However, the mistake will be pointed out (publicly) and you will be invited to choose a single model.
• Each nomination must be accompanied by at least one photograph of the model in question.
• Not all categories need be entered.
• Nominations will open on 1st December and close whenever I get up on 17th December.
• The lists of nominations in each category will be prepared by myself over the weekend of 17/18th December.
• The valid nominations will posted to the topic as four separate lists: one for each category.
• Voting is based on the criterion “The model I would most like to add to my collection”.
• Voting will take place from 19th December to 31st December.
• One vote/member/category.
• Voting will be on an honesty basis and will entail members copying the most recent version of the relevant list and adding one to the score of one of the models.
• No prizes except for being able to go into 2017 feeling rather smug in the knowledge that you've got something that (almost) everyone else wants!
• Sanity clause: there ain't no sanity claus!
• One final point, and that is a request rather than a rule: our non-Matchbox collecting friends on the Forum put up with an awful lot of (for them) irrelevant and probably uninteresting discussions of seemingly obscure and unimportant details by the rest of us. So, when voting in one of the Lesney categories, please also try to cast a vote in the equivalent non-Lesney category as well.

Remember, there’s still plenty of time to unearth mind-numbing rarities, so don’t despair if the fates haven’t been kind to you so far!

[ritchie]

Got this interesting promo recently

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[Idris]

Vhtf second casting of the 1a Road Roller (unfortunately partially overpainted and with the driver filed away).

[Miller]

My personal "win of the year" are these two. To find and get two green busses in such near mint condition was very special!

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[Idris]

Come on, people! Only three entries so far?

[motorman]

Come on, people! Only three entries so far?

But its not the end of the year yet Hugh.

[leonty24]

Nothing more to be said Spot-on

[motorman]

Ok Hugh here are my submissions:

My Superfast category find of the year is my Dodge Charger MkIII with very hard to find Amber glazing.

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My Preproduction category model is another Superfast, this wonderful and extremely rare Team Matchbox.

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Good luck to all the contributors.

[SuperFast]

Good evening,
here are my best finds of the year 2016:

Lesney pre 1970:
RW 25B, because it has the "Volkswagon" base.

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Lesney post 1969:
SF 12D, Citroen Ambulance, because it has green windows and unpainted base.

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non Lesney, but i don't know the date of manufacture:
BRAWA/ Eheim 452 "Schienenbulli" in H0, because it has an original Lesney Casting, painted in maroon.

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Sven

[Idris]

Since no one has (yet) managed to find fault with my mustard-coloured 38a, I'll enter it in the pre-production & colour trials category.