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Superb Vintage McVitie's Tin with Mabel Lucie Attwell

This is a wonderful biscuit tin for McVitie's biscuits in very good condition.  The top is embossed with designs of previous collectable tins including 3 Mabel Lucie Attwell tins. There is the round Mabel Lucie Attwell Fairy Tree, Bicki House and The House That Jack Built .  It is 30 cm x 20.6 cm x 6.5 cm deep.  The edges have some marks from age which do not detract from the wonderful look of the tin.

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San Fransisco Cable Car Friction Engine c.1960

This is a superb example of the San Fransisco cable car in excellent all original condition and working order.  It comes from a private collection and has never been played with.  There are a few scuff marks as can be seen in the pictures but these do not detract from the wonderful condition of the cable car.  All the passengers are intact as are the perspex windows.   This is one of the first ones which were made in Japan.  It is 17.7 cm long x 8 cm high x 5.7 cm wide.

Price:  £40

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Jan Blenken Pressed Steel Model T

This is a well made large scale heavy pressed steel model of a vintage car after a model T Ford. The pressed steel body is green with a black double seat and black functioning steering wheel.  It has rubber balloon tyres.    This model is in very good condition.  It is 28 cm long x 15 cm wide x 18.5 cm high.  The back left wing/mudguard has a dent.  It weighs 1.3 kilos.  Made by Jan Blenken of Nuremberg Germany after Bing.

Price:  £95

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TN Nomura Tin Plate Battery Op. American Airlines Elektra II DC3 plane c.1960s

A rare American Airlines DC3 tin plate battery operated aeroplane in good condition and working order.  It is 36 cm (15") long with a 42 cm (16.5") wingspan.  The overall condition is 8/10 with a slight ding on the cockpit and a little rust on the wings.  The top is tin plate with the underneath in plastic.  The battery compartment is tin.  When switched on the inner propellers start then the outer ones, and plane moves forwards and stops as well as the propellers.  The cockpit lights up as well as the back windows.  Please keep in mind that old toys can be temperamental in their functionality

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This is the tinplate mechanical Thirsty Bear by Alps, Japan c.1960.  He is in very good all original condition and working order.  When wound he pours his drink, lifts his glass to his mouth and his tail whirls.  He is 18 cm high.  The box is in good condition, 9/10.

Price:  £85

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A fabulous little sweet tin by George W. Horner & Co. Ltd., Makers of Good Sweets, Chester-Le-Street, County of Durham, England.  She is carrying a parasol and a flower basket and holding her little pekingese on a lead.  It is in good all original condition, some fading on her dress as can be seen in the pictures which does not detract from the overall look of this great display piece.  It is 16.6 cm high x 10.8 cm wide at the bottom and 6 cm wide at the top x 2.5 cm deep.  The inside is marked from use.

Price:  £35

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These are two plastic kits in their original packaging in mint condition.  Airfix 72nd scale Cherokee Arrow II and Rare Plane vacforms Curtiss A-12 Shrike. Both are in their original unopened packaging.

Price:  £19.95

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Hornby City of London 2 rail diecast locomotive with tender in good all original condition and working order. It comes in a new top quality replacement box.

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Hornby Dublo tinplate coal wagon in good all original condition in original box.

Price:  £20

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 'East.West. Home's.Best'  biscuit tin with hinged lid, the lid is embossed by offset lithography & Plating with the image of a red-roofed house in a landscape within a cartouche. Wavy borders around base and base of lid in red, black and gold. It is in good all original condition with only some pitting in the gold background as can be seen in the pictures.  The tin is height: 8.4 cm  x width: 23.7 cm x depth: 9.1 cm. This was a free sample tin by C.W.S. (Co-Operative Wholesale Society)  of Mancherster.

Price:  £22

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Zeppelin Penny Toy Germany

This is a tin plate penny toy of a Zeppelin in good all original condition.  Made in Germany by ZZ . It is 9 cm long.

Price:  £28

This is a fabulous tin typical of the 1950's Wild West period.  The tin is 12.6 cms.  The lid is in good condition,  a couple of small marks as can be seen in the pictures which do not detract from the superb details.  The base has most of the chrome worn off.  The tin has "Made in England by Riley Brothers, (Halifax) Ltd.,  Halifax,  England" around the edge and on the base "Rileys Toffee,  Riley Brothers Halifax".

Price:  £18

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A vintage tin in good all original condition. It is in the shape of a book. It is 24 cm high  x 17 cm wide x 5.5 cm deep.  There are a few light scratches which do not detract from the overall look.  The name is 'Gourmets Delight, Victoria Holland'. This is a large tin.

Price:  £18

This is the famous climbing monkey,  Made in the USA in mint condition on original card.  The wooden stick is 47 cms high,  Jog-O the monkey is 7.3 cms high,  tin plate with a swinging tin plate tail.  The card is 50.5 cms hig x 11.5 cms wide.

Price:  £35

This is a fabulous clockwork elephant made in US Zone Germany. It is in excellent condition and working order. It is 21.5 cms high. The colors are bright and there don't seem to be any scratches.

Price: £135

This small Meccano tin is 11.2 cm x 7.5 cm x 1.8 cm deep.  The tin is in playworn condition as can be seen in the pictures.

Price:  £9.95

This is a fabulous mechanical monkey playing maracas.  It is a wound-up toy,  when you wind him up he moves around,  bends left and right and shakes his arms up and down.  He is 14.8 cm high.  He is in very good condition and working order.  Made in Japan.

Price:  £45

This is a friction model in excellent condition.  Made in Japan.  It has "Powel & Mason Sts" on the roof.  Number 514 Minicipal Railway;  Bay and Taylor,  Powell and Market.  It is 9.4 c.s long x 3 cms wide x 3.8 cms high.

Price:  £35

This is an interesting hard plastic cable car in very good condition. It is 16.5 cms long x 7.8 cms high x 4.5 cms wide. Embossed on either side is "Powell & Mason Sts." and on either side are stickers with "504 Cable Car, Municipal Railway San Francisco (SF)" and there are stickers on the front and back "504, Powell and Market, 3 Blocks, Bay and Taylor, Fisherman's Wharf, Chinatown". There is a friction motor and a bell that rings as the wheels turn.

Price: £35