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 ...

A couple who have built up a rare collection of 2,000 Dinky toys and other cars and trains over 50 years could see it fetch £250,000 at auction next week. Retired car dealer Raymond Hainsworth, 78, ...

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 ...

An extraordinary collection of toy cars is expected to fetch a staggering £125,000 when it goes under the hammer. At more than 1,500 lots the Mike Reason Collection is so huge it will be sold at ...

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 ...

A collection of 3,000 toy cars, trucks and trains which was built up over 50 years has been sold at auction for £227,000. Retired car dealer Raymond Hainsworth, 78, did not expect to make a fortune on ...

A collection of model Dinky Toys cars accumulated over 35 years have been sold for a staggering £350,000. The rare set of around 1,600 figures toy vehicles had been amassed by Dutch collector Robert ...

The rarest model was a Dinky 139 Ford Consul Cortina, South African Issue, which has a bright green interior A Dinky toy collection of about 3,500 cars has fetched £150,000 at an auction of ...

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A Dinky toy collection of about 3,500 cars has fetched £150,000 at an auction of "international significance". John Kinchen, from Portsmouth, collected the vehicles for decades before his death last ...