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In Fifty years how rare will this be ? If it was local it would probably be in my shed.can anyone assist with post to oz?
cheers steven

That's a cool display stand and I would think super rear in 50 years time.
I haven't seen it catalogued anywhere so most people wouldn't even know of it's existence. As least in the old days there were catalogues that showed the displays so people knew they existed and what they looked like.
Only problem with fifty years time is that no one much plays or grew up with Matchbox as you can never find it. It's so poorly marketed and distributed.
Matchbox stuff, the older stuff is only of value because of it's nostalgic value. We played with it as kinds. It was everywhere, particularly in the 60's and 70's.
Now everyone wants to relive those memories and the supply of mint boxed models is limited. Obviously the price climbs but if you never played with it there is no real value.

Cheers, Steve
Matchboxkiwi

Very cool display-- what vintage would folks say? Hard part with these "end aisle" or large displays is that they are hard to keep/store for most people due to space limitations. I would think that it will be rare someday since very few will probably exist and cardboard usually doesn't hold up over time so when it does, people tend to want it. I think many folks will still enjoy these types of items 50 years from now.

The Orange and Yellow rectangle design around the MATHCBOX name was used from 1975-83.

Ghosthunter.

Definitely reminds me of the 1997-ish era of colors and logo design. Cool piece!!

Matt Fogarty

GHOSTHUNTER wrote:The Orange and Yellow rectangle design around the MATCHBOX name was used from 1975-83.

Ghosthunter.

The logo on this display is actually the current Matchbox logo without quotation marks which was introduced in 2006.

The quotation marks had been removed at the introduction of the previous oval logo design in the year 2000. In 2006 a logo similar to the earlier one was introduced, but with the quotation marks still missing. So you can distinguish pre-2000 from post-2005 Matchbox logos by the presence or absence of the quotation marks.

The pre-2000 style logo in these colours had been introduced in 1983, as up until 1982 the Matchbox lettering had been red on yellow, not black on white. (On the US market only the same colour change happened about ten years later.)