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| One of the unusual specialities of north eastern England is toy auctions, with Vectis of Stockton on Tees the largest auctioneers of children's discarded playthings in the world. | One of the unusual specialities of north eastern England is toy auctions, with Vectis of Stockton on Tees the largest auctioneers of children's discarded playthings in the world. |
| Through prosperity and recession alike, they have sold over £80 million worth of secondhand model cars, dollies and the like since 1997 and have 55,000 customers on their international database. | Through prosperity and recession alike, they have sold over £80 million worth of secondhand model cars, dollies and the like since 1997 and have 55,000 customers on their international database. |
| The firm's chairman Bryan Goodall is also the man behind Saltburn-by-the-Sea's Artsbank, a converted bank which now showcases and sells the work of the many artists who like living on Teesside. These famously include the Master of Drawing at Eton College, Ian Burke, who comes from the area and is a termly boarder down south from his home and studio up on the North York Moors. | The firm's chairman Bryan Goodall is also the man behind Saltburn-by-the-Sea's Artsbank, a converted bank which now showcases and sells the work of the many artists who like living on Teesside. These famously include the Master of Drawing at Eton College, Ian Burke, who comes from the area and is a termly boarder down south from his home and studio up on the North York Moors. |
| Vectis do not have the market to themselves, however, and the latest modest headlines in the toy-selling world went to Anderson & Garland of Newcastle-upon-Tyne, general auctioneers of valuable items, who claimed a record for selling old Airfix kits at a £9000 session in July. Any technology buff or former modelmaker nostalgic for the smell of kit glue or the 'dope' which you painted on the wings of balsa wood kits may be interested in a lot in their sale next week. | Vectis do not have the market to themselves, however, and the latest modest headlines in the toy-selling world went to Anderson & Garland of Newcastle-upon-Tyne, general auctioneers of valuable items, who claimed a record for selling old Airfix kits at a £9000 session in July. Any technology buff or former modelmaker nostalgic for the smell of kit glue or the 'dope' which you painted on the wings of balsa wood kits may be interested in a lot in their sale next week. |
| Among 1800 more Airfix kits up for bidding are four unopened boxes of Little Nellie, the autogyro used by James Bond in You Only Live Twice, packed with ingenious deadly weapons for all that it sounds like the heroine of a Catherine Cookson romance. The machine exercised a particular fascination, in part because it was designed by a real-life former RAF pilot, Kenneth Horatio Wallis, who holds 34 autogyro records and flew Little Nellie himself, both for the film and later in searches for the Loch Ness monster. | Among 1800 more Airfix kits up for bidding are four unopened boxes of Little Nellie, the autogyro used by James Bond in You Only Live Twice, packed with ingenious deadly weapons for all that it sounds like the heroine of a Catherine Cookson romance. The machine exercised a particular fascination, in part because it was designed by a real-life former RAF pilot, Kenneth Horatio Wallis, who holds 34 autogyro records and flew Little Nellie himself, both for the film and later in searches for the Loch Ness monster. |
| Now 96, he will no doubt be pleased that his most famous creation is lastingly popular, with each of the kits estimated to sell for £100. Fred Wyrley-Birch at Anderson & Garland is full of Little Nellie lore, including the fact that the originals were only sold during the publicity drive for the film. There's been plenty of advance interest, he says, with the auction at Anderson & Garland on 10 October. Vectis meanwhile has Dolls, Teddy bears and general toys on 16 October and a 'Simply Dinky' auction the following day. | Now 96, he will no doubt be pleased that his most famous creation is lastingly popular, with each of the kits estimated to sell for £100. Fred Wyrley-Birch at Anderson & Garland is full of Little Nellie lore, including the fact that the originals were only sold during the publicity drive for the film. There's been plenty of advance interest, he says, with the auction at Anderson & Garland on 10 October. Vectis meanwhile has Dolls, Teddy bears and general toys on 16 October and a 'Simply Dinky' auction the following day. |
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