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Just spent the evening going through a suitcase of old train books etc,and there was a few meccano magazines without covers so practically worthless ,but checked out the ads and noticed these,one is november 1950 and the other feb 1951
so fairly early
dave r

I got my one around 1952 when I was 5 Dave. It lasted about 6 weeks after I put dents in my mum's nicely polished dining table.

There's some more ads in the link below, including that old scamp Muffin:

viewtopic.php?f=5&t=4920&hilit=moko+adverts

MOKOSEX wrote:Just spent the evening going through a suitcase of old train books etc,and there was a few meccano magazines without covers so practically worthless ,but checked out the ads and noticed these,one is november 1950 and the other feb 1951
so fairly early
dave r

Thanks for posting these and the details in which magazines these were found.
I just bought the 2 magazines on eBay UK.

marcel

Moyboy wrote:I got my one around 1952 when I was 5 Dave. It lasted about 6 weeks after I put dents in my mum's nicely polished dining table.

When i was about 5 someone bought me a gun with those suckers on the end,i accidentally shot my mum in the eye while she my serving jelly at my birthday party, ,after the party my gun had disappeared
i would guess the modern day equivalent would be buying a kid a set of felts pens or play doe,i know i dreaded my kids getting them lol.
dave

johnboy wrote:There's some more ads in the link below, including that old scamp Muffin:

viewtopic.php?f=5&t=4920&hilit=moko+adverts

i love old ads ,and they are great ads!,toy trader magazines are hard to find,one moko ad i saw in a tin toys book caught my interest,and i have a couple of space outlaw adverts,one in a bcm pamphlet and the other in a christmas club book
dave

matchboxmarcel wrote:

MOKOSEX wrote:Just spent the evening going through a suitcase of old train books etc,and there was a few meccano magazines without covers so practically worthless ,but checked out the ads and noticed these,one is november 1950 and the other feb 1951
so fairly early
dave r

Thanks for posting these and the details in which magazines these were found.
I just bought the 2 magazines on eBay UK.

marcel

Old railway model magazines are a good place to find old matchbox adverts,last thursday at a local auction i missed this box full,they sold for £5

I have most of the Railway Modeller magazines with Matchbox adds.

marcel

matchboxmarcel wrote:I have most of the Railway Modeller magazines with Matchbox adds.


marcel

i have a few about,early 1960,s seem the best years
dave

video of Anette Mills playing the piano with Muffin the Mule.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_cont ... pQY2FbCUtM

See passed away in 1955.
See:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Annette_Mills

marcel