Some of the first Dinky Toys ever made have fetched almost £50,000 at auction. Two boxes containing 12 rare delivery vans from the firm's infancy in 1933 were snapped up by a private collector. The ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Ken McRae, 66, has become an expert on Dinky toys since he began collecting them in earnest in the 1980s. The ...

There’s model-car collecting, and then there’s people like Ron van der Hoort. Over the span of 35 years, give or take a few months, he put together what is believed to be one of the largest Dinky Toys ...

ONE man's remarkable collection of Dinky toy cars, buses and military vehicles has sold for a staggering £180,000. Steve Bonney spent 30 years scouring specialist toy shops and auctions in pursuit of ...

DinkyToys celebrates its 75th anniversary-this year as continuing-enthusiasm for its miniature die-cast vehicles drives values to record highs - in some cases they are more expensive than a real car.

A classic toy car has sold on eBay for almost £1,000 after inspiring a mini bidding war from 29 collectors. The Dinky Toy Oldsmobile fetched £992 when it sold on the online auction site earlier this ...

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The display at Brighton Toy and Model Museum includes 400 rare 1930s Dinky toys. A private collection of rare 1930s Dinky toys has gone on public display. The exhibition of 400 Meccano-made items have ...

A tiny Dinky Toy van which is 'one of the rarest ever made' is on auction for thousands of pounds. The 3.25 inch long grey and blue Monks & Crane van, made between 1954 and 1960, is on sale for £7,000 ...