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I am trying to match boxes to a models in a large Lledo collection. What do the code numbers on the labels on the endflaps mean? For instance, on this one it states 80577 00075. I googled 00075 and could not come up with anything. Does anyone know how to read these? Thanks in advance.

High Bob.

The box you show is a standard Lledo Days Gone design used from 1983 and housed models with numbers in the DG 01 - DG 19 range. The box colouring changed and the style of the artwork changed during 1986, but 1983 still appeared on these modified boxes. The same models (DG 01 - DG 19), with minor modifications were all used again in these modified boxes from 1986 onwards until a simple cream polystyrene model holder was included in each box from 1988 onwards and so on and so on until 1995 when Corgi stepped in and took over the Lledo operation.

The label shown on your box is a store specifc label that does not relate to the actual model inside, if it was something put on by Lledo, it would have been printed as something like this...

DG 52007a, which in this case translates into a 1935 Morris Parcels Van (the DG 52 part), RAF Ambulance (the 007a being the 7th livery version of this Van).

A similar range was created called Lledo Promotional and these used basically the same catalogue numbers as the DG model but this time catalogued as LP XXXXXX etc, etc.

You will have to see what models are left after boxing up the regular, standard Days Gone models as a likely candidate for placing in the box you have shown above.

Ghosthunter.

There was a Lledo magazine "Lledo Calling" by Ray Bush, (1984) penned after his disenchantment with the way Matchbox was going.

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/LLEDO-CALLIN ... fresh=true

Should be helpful.

Hi Bob,
Many thanks for the reply. It confirms what I thought for that particular label that it has no relation to the contents of the box (at least one that is easy to determine). So that box will be kept, as you recommend, til later when everything else is matched.

Here is an example of a box that has a similar label but does have a relation to the model that is supposed to be included. 23001 signifies the second release of the "Greyhound Scenicruiser" bus DG-23, in Gold. The first model in silver was 23000. The RDP catalog offsets the listings by one where "A" = Lledo designation "0" and "B" = Lledo designation 1. As you can see the labels are similar in design so that is why I was asking.

I was a member of Ray's Lledo Calling club when it started and I still have the Black Model T Van that was produced for the club members. I also found four more in this collection I am sorting (!!!).

When the Days Gone models are completed being boxed up, then I will start matching boxes on the "Promotionals". We sold a few hundred Days Gone and Promotionals from this collection last year but those were already boxed. The ones I am working on now were in the original owner's display cabinets but fortunately he kept most if not all of the boxes.

YYS4BOB wrote:There was a Lledo magazine "Lledo Calling" by Ray Bush, (1984) penned after his disenchantment with the way Matchbox was going...

...not to mention the disenchantment of many Members with the way "U.K. Matchbox" was going!

And they went off and formed MICA, hyped everything to the hilt and then sold out when the bubbles they created started bursting.