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Won this while in the south yesterday.

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Matchbox-cata ... 7675.l2557

It is a varation of the 1st edtion UK catalogue.
The K21 Police car is a Sedan and not the later Wagon as in the 2nd edition.
The 1st edition UK I had here already showed the wagon as in the 2nd edition.
I now have all the 19 variations of the 1969 catalogue featured here.

http://www.mbxforum.com/11-Catalogs/00- ... 75ncac.php

I have some spare catalogues so sent me a pm with your emailaddress and we can sort things out.

Need a 1966 Japanese one and a East German 1976 one in good codition.

marcel

]Hi all,
i have just purchased this early leaflet,it appears to be genuine , is this known for being reproduced ?, if it is it is new to me as i have never seen another for sale, i welcome your comments and further information on same.I note that the mbx forum was given one by Christian Falkensteiner,i can find no other reference on-line,so your comments are appreciated.i have left as big pictures for your assessment
cheers Steven

This reminds me on the typical art used in the german Enid Blyton books

I have one of those so now I know of at least three.
Well done. A hard piece to find.

Cheers, Steve

Steve, yours is a Swiss edition, while the one shown above and the other one which used to be in Ralph-Egbert Richter's collection and was sold in his Vectis auction in 2014 are both German.

Apparently that O.E.Waldmeier company which issued those leaflets had branches in Germany and in Switzerland. (Lörrach is close to the Swiss border and not far from Basel.) It must have been a Matchbox distributor for Germany and Switzerland (perhaps the only one?) before Edor appeared on the scene.

I would love to obtain one of those but would probably not be willing to pay the amount required, as in many other cases.

For the 1969 - 1 I have the following
German
International
Italian
UK (K23 as wagon)
US
For issue 2 I have
Italian
UK
US

That's good news Christian, it makes mine even rearer. Only one Swiss one ever known while the German one is quite common!! There are twice as many of those!

Cheers, Steve
Matchboxkiwi

Cheers, Steve
Matchboxkiwi

Hi Steve,
by my maths that would make it two all-
German - artherfonz and the one which used to be in Ralph-Egbert Richter's collection and was sold in his Vectis auction in 2014
Swiss - matchboxkiwi , mboxforum -

Perhaps another probable variable could be if Christian gave one to the mboxforum because he had a spare, which would make the German edition more rearer.
Seriously though i do have catalogue envy when i see your collection.



cheers steven

Hi Steven,
The one Christian put on the Matchbox forum is my one!
A number of my catalogues are on the Matchbox forum and I still have quite a few I need to add. There are only a couple I don't have on the forum. It's a wonderful reference site isn't it?
Currently I'm trying locate my spare catalogues as I want to reduce their number.
I moved my model room recently and they were the last things I pack away in a hurry and of course I can't find them now!

Cheers, Steve
Matchboxkiwi