Early lesney toys

[antoinecalleja]

I am attaching 2 pictures from my collection. This is the first time I am attaching pictures in this forum, So I would like to apologise if not uploaded correctly!

Best regards,
Antoine

[GHOSTHUNTER]

Hello Antoine.

I have resized the pictures for you and flipped them over.

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If you go into the Lounge section of the forum, look at the 7th topic (thread), down the list and click-on the 'Edit Your Pictures' and have a read, there are some handy hints and tips in there, anything not clear for you just come back here and give us a shout.

GHOSTHUNTER.

[antoinecalleja]

Thank you Ghosthunter
Much appreciated!
Antoine

[nickjones]

The yellow crawler is a fairly common colour but I don't recall seeing a red one before, Very nice.

[antoinecalleja]

The red one is, in fact, extremely rare in any condition. I was lucky to find one which has some paint loss but is not in anyway damaged and is totally original. When I have some free time I will upload more pictures of my other rare early Lesney toys to share with you.
best regards,
Antoine

[nickjones]

Hi Antoine.
I just heard from Gary Galvin who has one of the nicest and most complete early lesney collections. He does not have a red crawler !. I agree with you, It must be extremely rare.

[Moyboy]

I got one !!! Indeed red is extremely hard to find and this one shown here is only the 3rd I know of. Not sure why as red must have been an easy colour to come by after the war.

[Idris]

Indeed red is extremely hard to find and this one shown here is only the 3rd I know of. Not sure why as red must have been an easy colour to come by after the war.

It is a bit odd when you think about it. The road roller in red is difficult too, yet Condon issued (I would guess) at least a third of their dumpers (the large scale 2a) in red.

[MOKOSEX]

Took me over ten years to get a red crawler,it really is down to luck,has for rollers i think the hardest one to find is the dark normal green with a driver