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24 Hours of Matchbox Berlin
Posted: Tue Jan 21, 2020 6:48 pm
by kay
Carsten Oettler of Cars and Boxes has now realized a new Matchbox meeting in Potsdam in early September - it is planned as a casual come together in a hotel near Berlin. There's going to be kind of a "24 hour" Matchbox toy fair in the hotel (Friday from 6 to 10 pm, and Saturday from 9 am to 6 pm)
Hopefully it will attract a lot of collectors and sellers.....
A collecting friend of mine and I have already booked tables and hotel rooms.
See link below for more details.
http://www.matchbox.berlin/en.html
Kay
Re: 24 Hours of Matchbox Berlin
Posted: Tue Jan 21, 2020 7:14 pm
by matchboxmarcel
thanks kay for posting this here also.
I have placed the date in my diary.
marcel
Re: 24 Hours of Matchbox Berlin
Posted: Tue Jan 21, 2020 8:17 pm
by GHOSTHUNTER
This has to be good for the hobby and is something missing in the UK (the home of Lesney - Matchbox!) at the moment with the demise of the MICA conventions.
As organiser of the Windsor Toy Fair only twice a year, maybe a Matchbox specific event is something I can look into as a future event.
Ghosthunter.
Re: 24 Hours of Matchbox Berlin
Posted: Tue Jan 21, 2020 8:29 pm
by motorman
GHOSTHUNTER wrote:This has to be good for the hobby and is something missing in the UK (the home of Lesney - Matchbox!) at the moment with the demise of the MICA conventions.
As organiser of the Windsor Toy Fair only twice a year, maybe a Matchbox specific event is something I can look into as a future event.
Ghosthunter.
I would expect that would interest quite a few of us here in the UK Kevin so keep me posted if you do develop any plans.
Re: 24 Hours of Matchbox Berlin
Posted: Tue Jan 21, 2020 8:42 pm
by YYS4BOB
Yes, count me in!
Re: 24 Hours of Matchbox Berlin
Posted: Tue Jan 21, 2020 9:16 pm
by Idris
GHOSTHUNTER wrote:This has to be good for the hobby and is something missing in the UK (the home of Lesney - Matchbox!) at the moment with the demise of the MICA conventions.
As organiser of the Windsor Toy Fair only twice a year, maybe a Matchbox specific event is something I can look into as a future event.
Ghosthunter.
It is indeed odd that there is currently no Matchbox/Lesney convention/get together held in the UK. I'm sure it is a market niche just waiting to be filled by a centrally-held, well-organised, and well-pulicised meet.
Re: 24 Hours of Matchbox Berlin
Posted: Wed Jan 22, 2020 8:14 pm
by GHOSTHUNTER
So I don't mess up Kay's thread, my thoughts on a Lesney - Matchbox show now has a thread of its own here...
https://www.vintagebritishdiecasts.co.u ... 472#p89236
Ghosthunter.