New Stour & Avon, August 27, 2021
Antiques & Collectibles WE BUY RECORDS, COLLECTIONS LARGE AND SMALL Call BILL 07967 816506 or 01747 811100 Email: bill@tunes.co.uk
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Thirty years of dealing in antique and collectible toys. Top prices paid for all types of model railway, die cast cars, early Action Man and Stars Wars, Scalextric. Meccano, unmade Airfix kits etc. Those magical names: Hornby, Dinky, Triang, Spot-on, Corgi, Subbuteo, Britains, Timpo plus plus plus... Telephone: 01935 816072 Mobile: 07527 074343 Covid safe for house visits, please call to arrange an appointment
Car auction a wind-up The rare clockwork Alfas up for auction next month
Free valuations every Friday, Wimborne office
A fine Chinese carved celadon jade marriage bowl
SOLD for £47,000
A French Restauration period steel & bronze gueridon, early 19th century
SOLD for £51,000 8 West Borough, Wimborne Minster BH21 1NF 01202 842 900 www.semleyauctioneers.com Offices in Dorset, Wiltshire and London
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Two old tinplate toy cars are estimated to sell for £10,000 in the Charterhouse two-day collectors’ auction on September 9 and 10. Art expert Richard Bromell said: “The models of Alfa Romeo P2 race cars would have no doubt given their owners hours of fun when new back in the 1920s. “Rarely do you see one of the models, produced by the French firm CIJ Companie, so it is a real pleasure to see and handle two, although they are too expensive for me to wind up and play with!” The Alfa Romeo P2 won the inaugural Automobile World Championship in 1925, taking victory in two of the four championship rounds when Antonio Ascari drove it in the European Grand Prix at Spa, and Count Brilli-Peri won the Italian Grand Prix at Monza. From 1924-1930 the P2 was victorious in 14 Grands Prix and major events including the Targa Florio. It was one of the iconic Grand Prix cars of the 1920s, and enabled Alfa Romeo, as world champions, to incorporate the laurel wreath
into their logo. Today these clockwork models are highly sought after. At the upcoming Charterhouse auction, the red P2 has been restored and is estimated at £2,000-£4,000 whilst the green car is in its original condition and estimated at £4,000-£6,000 despite missing a few parts and with some slight surface rust and cracked paint. Charterhouse is now accepting entries for this specialist auction of coins, medals and stamps on Thursday, September 9 and model cars, toys, clocks and collectors’ items on September 10, with classic and vintage cars at the Haynes International Motor Museum on Tuesday, October 5 with classic and vintage motorcycles, also at Haynes, on Thursday, October 14.
