Sweden

[Idris]

It looks like my work will shortly be taking me to Stockholm for a few weeks, including the weekends.
Does anyone have any recommendations for toy/junk/antique shops, flea markets, collectors fairs and the like where RW might reasonably be expected to turn up?

[YYS4BOB]

Blimey, if I was going to Sweden in the summer, I wouldn't be looking at toy cars! Well, may be for a little while.

[Idris]

Found an as-good-as mint gold SF29 Racing Mini over the weekend - £2 well spent methinks!
Photos to follow.

[Rob]

The guy who did those I believe lives in Sweden and he did the rounds of Toyfairs a few years ago trying to flog them to all the dealers.

[motorman]

Found an as-good-as mint gold SF29 Racing Mini over the weekend - £2 well spent methinks!
Photos to follow.

Now that is what I call a bargain! Nice one Hugh

[Malibu]

It looks like my work will shortly be taking me to Stockholm for a few weeks, including the weekends.
Does anyone have any recommendations for toy/junk/antique shops, flea markets, collectors fairs and the like where RW might reasonably be expected to turn up?

Sorry no ideas about Matchbox models in Stockholm but I think you should visit the Vasa museum.

[Idris]

I did the Vasa Museum last Saturday. Most impressive!
We have a handful of rotten planks of wood nailed together and have the temerity to call it the Mary Rose, but they have a whole ship! It is, quite literally, jaw dropping: a genuine seventeenth-century man-o-war.

[GHOSTHUNTER]

Anyone know why Airfix call it 'Wasa'...

Ghosthunter.

[Idris]

Anyone know why Airfix call it 'Wasa'...

Looking online, I get the impression that it is simply an alternative spelling. (Was Swedish spelling as erratic as English spelling was back then?)

[GHOSTHUNTER]

Seems to be similar to Sony 'WEGA' TV's. Shown as WEGA on the equipment but pronounced as Vega.

Ghosthunter.