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Collector Bookstore is a retailer of new books located in Leavenworth, Kansas. We specialize in price guides and reference books for the antiques and collectibles industry. Get behind the wheel for a trip around the world with a panoply of toy cars, trucks, and utility vehicles, both vintage and modern. Survey a selection of tinplate trains, including classic engines, passenger cars, elegant sleepers, and rolling stock. Discover knights, grenadiers, lancers, and the cavalry officers and foot soldiers from the armies of Napoleon, King Arthur, Grant, and Lee.Each book offers a historical perspective along with life-size reproductions of 300-500 models from leading manufacturers around the world, featuring both rare and familiar models. Each volume includes a bibliography and useful addresses.A collectible in its own right, this attractively-priced gift set is ideal for serious collectors, for nostalgic adults, and for children discovering the fun of collecting for the first time. Collectible Miniature Cars Table of Contents This great guide focuses on some well-known brands like Corgi, Mercury, Dinky, and Solido. If your first motor racing track was your bedroom carpet, then Corgi Toys, Mercury and Solido must have been your first love. Indeed, the miniature car is one of the most enduring toys and almost as old as the machines that inspired them. Collectible Miniature Cars features over 500 models, from cabriolets and coupto racing cars and saloon cars. All the leading manufacturers across Europe and the United States are covered and each of the color photographs is accompanied by a short text highlighting the models key fea-tures. So whether you are a novice or the proud owner of a collection begun as a child, fasten your seat-belt for a charming trip through the world of the toy car. Collectible Model Trains Table of Contents: Page 1 - Page 2 Flammarion's Collectibles series continues with a wonderful selection of 400 tinplate trains including classic engines, passenger cars, elegant sleepers, and rolling stock in antique designs that will delight modelers and metal toy collectors alike. Here are the timeless, sturdy designs of Bachman, Hornby, Paya, Lionel, Bing, Marklin-revered US and European model train manufacturers who produced electric trains for children that now command high prices and instant nostalgia from adults. Collectible Toy Soldiers Table of Contents: Page 1 - Page 2 Mustered together here are over 400 soldiers from the armies of Napoleon, King Arthur, the Kaiser, Grant and Lee: knights, grenadiers and lancers, cavalry officers and foot soldiers-all reporting for peacetime duty as collectible toy soldiers. These heroic metal men wear colorful uniforms from the Age of Chivalry to the world wars, on parade again, reporting in with a caption that places each of them as figures in history. The adult war gamer and collector alike will instantly recall being a powerful general commanding a childhood army of valiant model soldiers like these.
| Status: No Longer Available |
Reference#: SO_RH_2003_9782080300751_X3-OLD |
| Condition:
New |
Year:
2003
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| Country:
USA |
Maker:
Flammarion |
| Height:
5.5 in. (13.97 cm) |
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Width: 5.63 in. (14.30 cm)
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Weight: 4.7500 |
| Title:
Collectible Toys: Miniature Cars, Model Trains, Toy Soldiers |
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| Type:
Book |
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