One of Britain’s biggest collections of Matchbox toys started in the 1970s is for sale for £21,000.
Terry Kneeshaw is selling 450 Regular Wheels cars he has been collecting for nearly 50 years.
The collection focuses on the artwork for each box type A to F by model series one to 75 and includes colour variations and rare issues.
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Terry is selling his collection through Vectis auction house as he is retiring and moving on to new projects.
Artist Terry, of Darlington, County Durham said he was attracted to the artwork on the boxes.
“I loved the paintings that came together on the boxes,” he told What’s The Jam.
“And I have some very, very rare ones.
“I started collecting variants and it became an obsession.
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“For a lot of people the cars are the most important part of the collection but for me as an artist what was more important was the pictures.
“So when I collected, I collected all the box types.
“It may be that you see you have three of the same car but I would collect every A box, every B box, every C box and so on.
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“I collected them as sets, as a series of boxes, rather than as cars.
“It was an unusual way to collect.
“But that’s me – I enjoyed it.”
He added: “I’m a pensioner now but I’ve got a new mantra in life – don’t retire, refire.
“I’m asking for another thirty years to do a completely new project.”
Vectis Auctions is selling the collection on October 30.
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