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I am new to collecting and to this site,i need a little help with identifying brands.I bought this week x2 jaguars they both look almost identical except for they have a different colour stripe on the side and 1 of them has a jaguar on the bonnet. Only 1 of the cars has corgi name the other only says made in GT Britain, could this be a corgi or does every corgi model have the brand printed?

Yes it is a Corgi,made when the company was bankrupt.This tooling ended up with Hot Wheels on the baseplate in its final years !

ok thank you. Its not one of the best to collect but at 10p im happy ive found the 'corgi' cars hardest to identify without model numbers dates etc on some of them. I have a few james bond cars, a couple from the magazine edition and the rest I bought were older orginals from motor shows, is there any differences I can look for between the older and more recent releases?

anname3 wrote:ok thank you. Its not one of the best to collect but at 10p im happy ive found the 'corgi' cars hardest to identify without model numbers dates etc on some of them. I have a few james bond cars, a couple from the magazine edition and the rest I bought were older orginals from motor shows, is there any differences I can look for between the older and more recent releases?

An answer to this question could fill a book!;)

If it is possible to make any general statement at all, I would say that generally the more interesting (and older) ones are those which were still made in Great Britain as opposed to China. The transfer of production happened in the early 1990s.

Some models had the brand name omitted from their baseplates for use in third-party packaging sold at certain store chains (e.g. Marks & Spencer, Mothercare). However, those brandless baseplates were then also commonly used on regular issues in Corgi packaging. Numerous combinations of liveries, wheel styles and baseplate types exist, and nobody knows them all. Since there are only few serious collectors of those models who care about details, most variations - even if rather rare - do not fetch very high prices.

These 1980s small scale Corgis will never be worth much or attract many serious collectors because compared to all the other alternatives to collect these castings are crude with poor quality wheels & baseplates which dont display well.Being produced by a business that was going bankrupt/bankrupt/under administration/under new ownership the multitude of combinations made reflects the get-any--diecast-product-out-of-the-factory at minimal costs strategy with previous specifications and branding strategy irrelevant to the need to ship pallet loads of anything for cashflow