Posted 5 years ago
fortapache
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The sources I checked online all say 1967 but I think this could have also been 1966. My guess is someone guessed and everyone else copied their guess. Going with 1966 as a possibility as the model on the cover came out in 1966 and the cardboard inserts for the cars. These were soon replaced by plastic trays which are removable and much longer lasting.
As to this item it is one of the less common carrying cases. It only holds 18 models which makes it perhaps the smallest of the carrying cases not counting the cases that came with Matchbox City and the gas station set.
In photo #3 you can see how slim the case is. And as seen in Photo #4 can be used for display.
Just picked this up at the Long Beach Antique Flea Market today so got a few more items from that along with some others.
I'm no Matchbox expert, but that's is the slimmest case I've seen. I've seen items be incorrectly identified/dated and then dozens of lemmings repeat the misinformation also. That's one of the things I like and respect about you, you do your own homework/research and use your own expertise to reference something. I'm the same way about doing it. I remember a GI Joe book published in the 90's that was so full of mistakes it was ludicrous. But just because the book was published, the guy was deemed an expert by many. IMO he was a joke.
Thank you very much Toyrebel very kind of you to say. I did a bit more research that came up with no results. That is the 1966 and 1967 Matchbox catalogs which did not have any carrying cases. The case my have been made by Ideal.
Was the book the Collectible Action Figures book by Manos? That was my Wish Book for many years. Still a few vehicles in there I want for my Joes.
This book was by Santellmo(?) or something like that. The Manos book is well done and does have some great eye candy. There were we some good action figure/GI Joe books that were obviously written by knowledgeable collectors, this guy Santellmo (?) was a disgrace, just jumping on the 90's popularity of the old Joes. I don't think he was old enough to even have had the original Joes. I got my Marine Joe in Christmas '64, I remember that era well.
I got my Joe around that time too. Don't recall the exact year but it was mid 1960s. I need to reshoot my Joe pictures here, perhaps time to revisit the Joes.
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