My partner call our basement Tels Toy box it is packed solid with storage cases full of toys accumulated over a period of some six decades firstly by my Dad then by myself and brother .
I collected model kits of all types my brother action figures and fantasy & wargames my Dad he bought whatever caught his eye but had a love for Model Railways and Diecasts as well as Model kits .
My Dad was of school age when WWII started and never really had much in the way of toys and spent most of his life making up for it .
He lived in North London and a good few toy companies were only a few miles from where he lived Merit, Spears ,Revell GB , Crescent Toys, Lesney Products with John Odell opening Lledo in Enfield many years later .
But one of the earliest makers he bought from was in Walthamstow E17 and tucked away in a box of vintage model kits I have unearthed 3 little boxes with diecasts from Benbros
I am not so bad with modern day Die cast and they are a challenge for know nothings like me but I do struggle to be totally accurate with diecasts which are most likely older than me and I am retired if that is what you can call unpacking and identifying hundreds if not more of model kits and toys .
Two of the boxes contained what started out as No.4 in the Benbros TV Series one in an early colour the other this one in the later Metallic finish .
****It seems Benbros were not big on issuing catalogues or lists of their products **** so not always so easy to find definitive info on their diecasts but I have found some details about them on a great website Nicholas Martin Diecast and I as always will give a straightforward and honest description for condition also please see photos .
This is a boxed Mighty Midget Benbros No.4 Metallic Blue Stagecoach when Benbros in 1956 switched from TV boxes to Mighty Midgets, the figure of the driver was dropped and the model had an upgrade. The coupling hook was re-designed and the model given a complete colour change. The coach became metallic green or metallic blue, the wheels red, and the horses metallic brown, metallic gold, pale grey or a very dark-brown (which was almost black). The coupling hook became a conventional 'L-shape'.
This is a Metallic blue with metallic brown horses version in it's original box with Red wheels the paint work is in excellent condition with only a few tint paint chips there is a piece of one of the top rails on the roof of the coach missing please see photos with the new shaped hook 'Benbros Made in England' is cast along the length of the shaft holding the horses
The horses are in excellent condition with all legs and I can find no real problem with the paint work other than light signs of storage and age also the shaft is the correct way up seems some were fitted upside down showing the 'Benbros Made in England' on the top not underneath of the shaft as it should have been .
The box is in good order no missing flaps or tabs bright in colour with some signs of storage and age and a little red biro ink on one side again please see photos
Postage I only ask what it costs to pack safely and send tracked service for safe keeping
****Please see photos ****
With postage I only ask what it costs to pack safely and send tracked service for safe keeping