Matchbox(r) Toys

As far as general information it’s ok, but the book was published in freaky 2003. If that info is in the description I cannot find it. Why did y’all not mention the book was from freak 2003? Oh, I think I might know, nobody would buy it became it has freaking 17 year old price information in it. Thank u for not letting us know that.

Good book

A+ All Around-Thz

Fast ship, very informal as described.

Great resource for Matchbox cars lovers. Very informative. Buy the set of 3 reference books by N Schiffer.

jst what I needed

This is a book what I've been looking for !!I could get it earlier than they have informed and the condition is very good, thank you.

Whilst certainly no comprehensive guide, (this was published in 2000 so obviously there won't be any cars from after that but important to note it actually only covers cars made up to June 1982) it still has more photographs than most of its competitors. I picked this up just to see the selection of Matchbox Toys (mostly cars) which came on the market since Lesney Products first produced them back in 1947. I was actually surprised that a book that is half the height of an A4 sheet of paper and only a little bit wider actually has more cars pictured inside it than some of the so called encyclopedias out there. It achieves this by photographing multiple cars on glass shelves fitting a lot more to a page than the encyclopedias do. This is also much handier and easy to carry then those tall heavy books as well which is an important factor if you are taking it with you as you search garage sales, flea markets and second hand dealers and want to know for sure the one being sold is the same as the one in the picture. The price guide at the end couldn't be easier to use you simply look up the page number and corresponding row to know the average price the item was going for back in 2000.I found it quite interesting that some items like a police bike that has just been repainted for three different countries police force - British, German and US (LAPD) is much more expensive with the German police force paint being that it is exactly the same motorbike and rider (although granted it does look the best of the three).This book also gives a bit of history of Lesney Products and some of the lines of Matchbox cars which was quite interesting. It also outlines the history of other toys the company made as well as the changes the company made to maximise survival when Hot Wheels entered the marketplace.There may well be more better guides out there than this one and certainly more up to date ones but if its the older cars your after then you'll find most of them photographed in here. This guide also shows Matchbox cars from different countries something other guides seem to forget Matchbox cars are sold in. Not a bad book, if you can get it for a cheap price give it a look.

I had been looking for this book for my husband for quite some time, so pleased we found it here