New arrivals

One can never have too many of the wonderful Taxi with Driver, Jonathan! Continuously upgrading them I sold the still very nice one below at Houten last week. Talking horse boxes, the other day I found a lovely replacement at last for a Dinky Horse Box which I sold three years ago already. This one is really nice, bright and almost without chipping: as new. By the way, attending today a horse event in which my daughter and her daughters take part. They all have been horse-mad ever since they were born! Kind regards, Jan

Lasrt week I got my first Range Rover ambulance. Note that the stickers on the doors are black (usually they are red) as the one on the roof. The steering-wheel is metallic grey. Kind regards Richard

An another view !

Johnny Congraulations for discovering the pack of six french crates. I have now recorded it in the Dinky Toys Encyclopaedia but could you please be kind enough to provide a good picture of this rare pack.

Jacques -- it is sweet that we keep discovering things about Dinky Toys. I noticed that the pack of six crates was not recorded in the Encyclopaedia, only the pack of ten. That surprised me because as far as I knew, the pack of six is the common version and the pack of ten is the rare one! I wonder when they changed the number of crates. Or is it possible that the pack of six was for export, and the pack of ten for France? Here are some more pictures of my packs of six.

Johnny and Kevin, Thank you for your pictures and informations. The pack of six is now listed in the encyclopaedia. I have no idea about why or when there were two different packaging. All I know about these accessories is that they were made at the Calais factory. Bobigny never made any plastic parts.

These plastic accessories were hard to find in the U.S., and I have wanted the 844 barriers (the rarest set, in my opinion) ever since I saw them in a catalogue as a child. They would have had lots of 'play value.' Sadly if I ever do get any they will stay sealed in their plastic bag these days -- ah, for the innocent days when one could actually play with Dinky Toys.

A couple of nice recent finds: French no. 24h Mercds 190 S.L., the early version with old reference number and without plastic windows, the last no. 24 introduction, I presume, of June 1958. Some more details later on. And a fair no. 23a (Small Open) Racing Car, in silver with silver wheels and continuous red stripe on top, crimped axle ends and central cross strengthening bar inside. This one making the sixth postwar variation. Kind regards, Jan

This morning came this Holden special sedan. Note the red seats which are very uncommon. Never seen before. Kind regards Richard

Seeing your red seat version of the bronze car made me check my examples - my bronze one has the normal very pale bluish-green seats, but my turquiose car has red seats. It also has bronze paint under the bonnet and boot lids, all original.

These last two days arrived two models. Here they are . Kind regards Richard

A few new deliveries this month. Unfortunately the Terex was not 79p any more ...