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

Collectables sell at Wessex

Trains and cranes

Don’t lose your marbles!

NEW RELEASES THIS MONTH

Kits, kits … and kits

It’s magic for Matchbox

TOY COLLECTORS PRICE GUIDE

Oxford update

LEGO Technic Mercedes-Benz

Coming up NEXT MONTH • FEBRUARY 2025 ISSUE

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What was the year? • Alwyn Brice continues to trawl through his memory banks.

Santa’s little locomotives • Weighing up the various festive railway offerings, Mark Nolan considers the pros and cons of Yuletide novelty trains.

Spin me right round! • Daniel Burrill looks into the little-known world of the vinyl records produced by Meccano.

World class Monospar • Brian Salter continues his look at models made of magazine cover stars. This month, we consider a staple of any fire brigade.

In the family way • Libby Parfitt remembers a 1980s childhood favourite, which is still going strong.

10 minute TOY EXPERT! Chiltern - Stone & Co

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.

Backs and trailers • 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 Jaguar Saloon • 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 Jaguar Saloon.

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…

In small scale • Ann Evans visits a big railway modelling show, on a small scale…

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Toy Stories

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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