Matchbox cars are icons of childhood, so it might surprise you that some of them are worth quite a bit of money. ... Lesney Products intended to sell these much bigger vehicles at Christmas, ...

Lesney had most of the 1950s and 1960s to itself, at least in the low-price, small-scale-model segment. Mattel entered the fray in 1967 with a series of more fantasy-like toys called Hot Wheels.

Lesney would soon become famous as the makers of Matchbox cars. But, first, the company’s two owners at the time, Jack Odell and Leslie Smith, brushed off a toy design they had never put into ...

The worlds most hotly sought after Matchbox car achieved a record-breaking price at auction recently. The Matchbox Quarry Truck, quoted by experts as the rarest and most valuable Matchbox toy ever ...

But it wasn't until 1952, when the company (then called Lesney) created a brass prototype of a small Road Roller (a truck that smoothed out the tar in the roads) and placed it in a matchbox-size ...

For collectors, the British-built Lesney-era cars are seen as the “golden age” of Matchbox, and thus the most valuable. David’s tip, though, is that first-timers might be better off looking ...

Everett Marshall wanted to pass along one of his childhood joys — collecting and playing with the Matchbox collection of die cast toy cars — to his then toddler son.