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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?

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.

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

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.

Idris wrote: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

Idris wrote: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.

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.

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

Ghosthunter.

GHOSTHUNTER wrote: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?)

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

Ghosthunter.