Posted 9 months ago
StLoretta
(22 items)
Esso gas pumps made by DINKY TOYS...these just amazed me...I think they are really special and just a treat to look at...I have never seen anything like them...
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If These Shirts Could Talk: The Tantalizing Tales Behind Used Clothes
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Jockeying for Position: How Boxers and Briefs Got Into Men's Pants
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Gloriously Grotesque 19th-Century Pipes
The meerschaum pipes carved in Eastern Europe at the end of the 19th century are among the most bizarre and improbable concoctions in decorative art. Some feature …
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In the Hot Seat: Is Your Antique Windsor a Fake?
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Love at First Kite: How Pizza and Pente Led to One Oklahoman's High-Flying Obsession
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Blood, Sweat, and Steel: My Afternoon with the Ace of Swords
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'The Great Gatsby' Still Gets Flappers Wrong
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Say Ahhh: An Oral Surgeon's Quest to Reimagine the Garage-Band Guitar
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Forget TV Pickers, Meet the Real Mavericks of the Antiques World
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Coveting The Craziest Cat-People Collectibles
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Dinky a bit of history before taken over by Matchbox
Changing fashions in the toy industry, international competition and the switch to cheap labour in lower wage countries meant that the days of British-made toy vehicles like Dinky Toys were numbered. After attempts at simplifying the products as a means of saving costs, the famous Binns Road factory in Liverpool finally closed its doors in November 1979. By comparison, Corgi Toys managed to struggle on until 1983. Matchbox was taken over by Universal International of Hong Kong in 1982 (McGimpsey & Orr 1989, p. 28). Thus ended the era when UK-made die-cast toy models were dominant.
The Dinky trade-name changed hands many times before ending up as part of Matchbox International Ltd in the late 1980s. This seemed to be a logical and perhaps synergistic development, uniting two of the most valuable and venerated names in the British and world die-cast model car market under one roof. For a time some Matchbox vehicles were sold under the Dinky name (Stoneback 2002, p. 24). Matchbox began issuing model cars of the 1950s through the 'Dinky Collection' in the late 1980s – these models were marketed toward adult collectors. The models were attractive and honoured the tradition of the Dinky name in terms of both quality and scale, before production stopped after only a few years. The 'Dinky Collection' then became absorbed into the themed series offered by Matchbox Collectibles Inc, owned by US giants Mattel, who have shown little interest in or understanding of the Dinky brand preferring nowadays to rebadge normal Matchbox models as Dinky for some editions of their models in certain markets, or to reissue 1:43 models from the Matchbox era. No new "dedicated" Dinky castings have been created in the Mattel era since Matchbox Collectibles was shut down in 2000.
very cool :) another very stunning item:)
Wonderful.