I do NOT provide values or answer e-mail inquiries for values. See my book page for Matchbox literature & price-guides, value & condition pages, & links to other web sites with value information on my value page.
To identify models see:
- my image, "series" & "variations" pages
- Matchbox Memories
- Matchbox Community Hall
- Kurt Ristniemi's YY page
- BAMCA interactive MB 1-75 image database
- BAMCA models page
- Alan Wank
- Lewis Miller Battleking pages
- areh's Matchbox Dictionary
- Matchbox Forum databases
- Matchbox Forum YY database
2010 MICA MATCHBOX CLUB ANNUAL 
7/15/10
The 2010 Matchbox Club Annual will be published in mid to late Augustt, and has 82 full colour A4 sized pages and its contents will include:
- 25 Years of MICA, the ups and downs by Stewart Orr
- All the Matchbox News 2009-2010 by David Tilley
- Code 2 Releases, MOY and Dinky 2009-2010
- My time at Matchbox, 18 years, by Gerry Tekerian
- MoKo and the story of a Lesney Truck that fetched over £10,000 in 2010
- Mattel’s Matchbox Toy Show models by Nigel Cooper
- The “H. Dunkley Models of Yesteryear Collection” as sold by Vectis…a full report with great photos of rare models by Ricardo M-Cortes
- Paul Carr on his time as a Lesney & Matchbox draughtsman
- Me and My Matchboxes by David Henson
- and more, much more…it’s a great read.
PRICES:
- Current members get a 5% discount (Offer closes 7 August)
- UK & Ireland: Member £15; Non Member £18; plus £3.50 postage & packaging
- EU & Europe Member £15; Non Member £18; plus £4 postage & packaging
- N. AMERICA, AUSTRALIA, NEW ZEALAND; FAR EAST & ROW Member £15; Non Member £18; plus £6 postage & packaging
Leipzig "Modell Hobby Spiel" 10/1-3/10
Closing date for the reservation of rooms in the hotel NH Messe Leipzig is 8/31/2010 and for the Matchbox Party and stands on the swapmeet is 9/13/2010!
Latest MICA newsletter (59 pages) 7/4/10
- The next Club Postal Auction (26-2) opened for bids on July 2, 2010 and closes on August. 5, 2010
- "Some of My Favourite early Superfast pre-production models" by Nigel Cooper
- "MICA Code 2 definitive listing 1976-2012" by Horace Dunkley
- "Looking back in the Lesney scrap books"
- Lesney & Matchbox Toys Heritage - Part One of "My Time at Matchbox", a talk originally given at the 12th MICA UK Convention on Saturday 15 March 1997. Gerry Tekerian was the Matchbox Marketing Manager and spent 18 years at Lesney Products and Matchbox Toys … I have had the rare distinction of working for all three regimes who have owned Matchbox: Lesney - the original and founding company Universal Matchbox - through the changing world of the 80's and Tyco - who really were not sure what they had bought …
The 3rd Club Annual will be printed and published in September and will feature some worthy articles including Paul Carr’s and Stewart Orr’s talks at this year’s Convention; the second part of Gerry Tekerian’s talk he delivered at the Aldershot Convention in the late 1990s; a review of the Vectis‘H. Dunkley’ auction in March with some terrific photos of very rare models; a concise article by Nigel Cooper on Mattel/Matchbox Toy Show models and much more … details will be emailed to all current members in August.
There will be a 2010-2011 Matchbox Club model, Code 2 status, to be released in September. It will be a replica of the famous and expensive Y4 Duesenberg in orange-red and white but with black
plastics instead of yellow. It will be a limited edition of just 60 models.