An early Dinky Toys 24h

This one came from California after a long long swap, the former collector and I were both very found of this 24h. He used to own it for several decades but didn't really recall where and when he purchased it. At the time he didn't even know how rare this copy was (and still is). I first saw it on a web forum, and I couldn't believe it, a real 1934 24h with the early Tootsietoy type hubs finished in the same colour as the body and base painted on the upper side only.

24f Sportsman Coupé & Franco-British blend

In the last article, I showed a rather interesting 24f. This reference will have been manufactured with three different body including in fact four variations in casting...

The indisputable truth about the grilles of the Dinky Toys Series 24

Sue and Mike Richardson, made a mistake in the late 70's about the 24 series grille chronology. For some reason I don't know, they believed that the French grille (aka diamond grille), was the very first one manufactured at Binn's rd. This information is still sometime copied and can be found here and there in articles, books or listing on eBay or auction sales.

Dinky Toys 24c : Bright Lights, Big City

having already a copy of a Royal blue Town Coupé, I considered skipping this one at an auction recently. There was a few other very interesting models and as the prices were going a bit high, to make sure I'd be able to purchase those other models, I left this one.
After all it only was the same model with different grille and hubs, wasn't it ?

Dinky Toys 24g : On the other side

Living in France should have allowing me to get many incredible pre-war French Dinkies... Well I don't know if there were much more models made on the other side of the Channel, but during those past years I came accross many top British models for so few french ones.

They are so hard to get in near perfect condition that I quickly quit trying to collect them, for the benefit of their Liverpudlian counterparts.

A few months ago I've been involved in a long deal with a very long time collector, I had some very special pre-war French Plaster & Flour and Lead models, and part of that exchange was this incredible French 24g Four seater tourer finished in grey over deep red chassis.

Dinky Toys 24c : From Town to the City

It's really been a very very long time since I didn't had the time to write anything on that blog. So much has happened in those few years... In fact I had to sell my whole collection and finally became a vintage toys professional dealer, which is cool but when I have to sell pre-war models...

I recently had the chance to come accross some wonderful Dinkies that I'm glad to present here.

Dinky 24g Tourer

Switzerland and Belgium despite their common boundaries with France, imported more british Dinky toys than French ones. In the fifties those countries even had special catalogues with both sides of the pond's material.

Dinky 24g Tourer

Introduced in 1934 with the seven other models of the glorious 24th serie, the tourer (aka four seater), reproduces perfectly the spirit of the pre war sport car which  remained untill the MG T was deleted in the 50's

That 24g is believed to be based upon the Morris Sports special Four-Seat relaesed in 1934 althoug it's commonly admitted that the 24 serie never tried to reproduce existing cars, therefore one can imagine everything about the brand of this one.