Collectors Gazette

Collectors Gazette - the only monthly newspaper for toy collectors! Keeping you up to date with all the latest collecting news, along with in-depth features on vintage diecast, railways, tinplate and TV & film models. We also bring you up to date price guides, event listings and swapmeet reports from around the country. The Digital version is fully interactive with exclusive images, videos, extra auction results and more!

Collectors Gazette

Bidding strong at Warwick

New Scalextric

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Playset not child’s play

Dolls delight at Denhams

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More milestones passed

Champion time at BTA

Collect Aardman

New Toy Fair!

Coming up NEXT MONTH • JANUARY 2025 ISSUE

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What was the year? • Revisit a different era, with Alwyn Brice.

The perfect collectable? • Checking out the surprising collaboration of two of the UK’s most iconic brands, Mark Nolan ponders whether Hornby’s Beatles trains are a portent of things to come.

Snap together car kits • The kits that need no paint … no glue … just building, with Andrew Ralston.

A very nice bit of kit • Brian Salter continues his look at models made of magazine cover stars. This month, we consider a staple of any fire brigade.

Puppies for pounds • Libby Parfitt falls in love with everyone’s favourite four-legged friend …

10 minute TOY EXPERT! Lott’s Bricks

It figures • Gijs Noordam takes us for a trip down Corgi memory lane, guided by the figures of people and animals that came in or with the models.

Hillman Imp • David Boxall chooses a particular Corgi model and considers the many ways in which the casting was utilised in order to produce a variety of vehicles.

The real Pulp Fiction • Gerald Edwards is your guide to early comic books.

The VW Beetle • David Boxall takes a look at a particular model vehicle produced by different manufacturers during the 1950s and 1960s. This month’s star guest is the VW Beetle.

ebuys • From collectables of the future to old favourites, eBay always manages to produce some amazing finds … and even more amazing prices!

PRICE GUIDE • Rounding up the latest toy sales from across the country with a brief visit to specialist auction rooms…

Toy Stories • It’s a British thing, with Ed Karswell.

Obsolete OZ • Our monthly gaze into the weird but wonderful world of collector/dealer Obsolete Oz. Buying and selling since the 1970s, Oz has developed a great knack for unearthing some amazing finds from flea markets, antique fairs, car boot sales, rubbish skips and even the local tip.

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