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I have started to dispose of ALL my Lesney Giftware. If you are interested in purchasing any items, I will send you an Excel file of what is available.
Sale does NOT include NON Lesney items such as lighters, cuff links,bottles etc.

...so NO Transpalites coming my way then

Ghosty.

GHOSTHUNTER wrote:...so NO Transpalites coming my way then

Ghosty.

Unless you make Bob an offer he can't refuse.



marcel

None of the above are for sale.

A small sample of the items on offer.

You have a good photographic eye. Great pics. Do you have any pre-production or color trial giftware items either for sale or just to show from your collection?

Bob, can you please send me the spread sheet.

bobneumann wrote:You have a good photographic eye. Great pics. Do you have any pre-production or color trial giftware items either for sale or just to show from your collection?

These are not for sale, but as per your request. I've never really seen any prepro giftware, but you do come across the odd peculiarity. Plated models without mounting holes or columns turn up now and again. This Y10 Rolls is an example I have. I have also seen Y2 Prince Henry, Y4 Opel, Y6 Cadillac & Y15 Packard like this.





The painted/plated Lagonda has been described as a "spot prize" at a Lesney dance.





Other models seen treated in this way are seen in this old photograph



The Bugatti is a mystery. Clearly there are no racing numbers under the plating, but it has rubber tyres.



These tyres were used on the models that were encased in Transpalite blocks (lighters/paper weights), but those models are usually plated over the paint as they were production models bought in by the company to be used in their process.



The Spyker is an example of a model used to test the Transpalite plating process, which clearly failed in this case!



Note the rubber tyres.

hydra427 wrote:Bob, can you please send me the spread sheet.

Please send me your E-Mail address via PM. Thanks