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 ...

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 ...

DinkyToys celebrates its 75th anniversary-this year as continuing-enthusiasm for its miniature die-cast vehicles drives values to record highs - in some cases they are more expensive than a real car.

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Ken McRae, 66, has become an expert on Dinky toys since he began collecting them in earnest in the 1980s. The ...

Dinky Toys celebrates its 75th anniversary this year as continuing enthusiasm for its miniature die-cast vehicles drives values to record highs - in some cases they are more expensive than a real car.

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Read on to find out which toys could earn you a pretty penny BRITS have been urged to check their lofts in search of a nostalgic but precious toy. You could have a treasure worth a whopping £90,000 ...