matchbox formula 5000

[Pierkemimi]

Label yellow :



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[matchboxkiwi]

Nice models Pierkemini. Unfortunately your yellow label looks like a sun fade to me rather than a separate or different coloured label.
In fact the other models around it help confirm this as the first models labels are clearly on the change from one colour to the other,

Cheers, Steve
Matchboxkiwi

[motorman]

Nice models Pierkemini. Unfortunately your yellow label looks like a sun fade to me rather than a separate or different coloured label.
In fact the other models around it help confirm this as the first models labels are clearly on the change from one colour to the other,

Cheers, Steve
Matchboxkiwi

Agreed Steve, a clear colour fade likely to be a sun bleached candidate!

[SuperFast]

Wouldn't say this is a variation, but it is very nice and collectable.
Could be a factory printing error.
So personally I think they've used yellow and red ink to get orange and in this run the red ink got empty. You can see this sometimes in magazines, comics and so on, even at home if the ink from your printer is empty.
As I wrote this is a very nice example you have Pierkemini.
SF

[matchboxkiwi]

Superfast,
I like the angle you are coming from in your reply.
However the only way I'd agree with you is if the blue around the yellow had remained dark blue and wasn't light blue which says to me it too has been faded by the sun.
If I'm wrong that would be fantastic as that would give us all another variation on this great model to collect!

Cheers, Steve
Matchboxkiwi

[SuperFast]

Can't give you the answer right now Steve, I had the same thoughts about the light blue.
I have some Superfast boxes which were printed with less ink, so everything is possible.
Why is the driver not sunfaded? The orange of the body is the same on every car.
If this isn't sunfaded, there must be a complete batch of misprinted labels (more than 2 labels). We have to wait until they come to light.
I will seek for another one.
Cheers
Sven

[Pierkemimi]

If the model is sunfaded look at this one on ebay :

https://www.benl.ebay.be/itm/Matchbox-S ... Swy5Ja1hTU

[SuperFast]

Thanks for the advice.
Looks the same like the right one above.
Could be sunfaded, there are different orange shades on the label.
But on the model in question is only yellow - this is interesting.

I like this yellow one.
SF