Description
Matchbox Models of Yesteryear G6 Gift Set containing (1) Y6 Bugatti Type 35 – blue body with racing number 6 decals, red dashboard, gloss black base, brass wheels; (2) Y7 Mercer Raceabout – silver body ( (steering column rusty); (3) Y10 1908 Mercedes Grand Prix Racing Car – dark green rear seat front seat missing ; (4) Y15 1907 Rolls Royce Silver Ghost; (5) Y16 1904 Spyker with primrose yellow body – all models have knobbly black plastic tyres – condition varies from Good to Excellent Plus but all models would benefit from cleaning as dusty/a little dirty from display i type D1 box illustrating two-tone green Spyker box in good used condition inner box split on 3 corners old sellotape marks on one corner outer box in good condition no tears with inner card packing tray. Rare set to find in any condition.
The Lesney Models of Yesteryear Series appeared in 1956 to capitalise on the pubic’s growing nostalgia for some of the more distinctive “old fashioned” prewar vehicles what had now disappeared from Britain’s roads – classic vintage cars, steam-powered lorries steamrollers and traction engines (made obsolete by improved diesel engines) and even a couple of older steam railway locomotives – and underwent continual revision and additions until around 1989.
Although the “Models of Yesteryear” range is often referred to loosely as the “Matchbox Models of Yesteryear” (the “Matchbox Series” being Lesney’s earlier, other, more famous range), they were supposedly promoted as two different ranges … although Lesney rather confused things by packaging the early MOY sets in yellow matchbox-styled boxes, just like the Matchbox range, and sometimes even using the Matchbox name on the pack artwork
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