Details:
- Item: Royal Queen Elizabeth II Coronation Horse & Golden Carriage/Coach Souvenir Set
- Brand: Lesney (Moko-Lesney / Matchbox)
- Style: Ornamental - Highly detailed - Mid-Century Souvenir
- Vintage: Yes
- Age: 1952
- Material: Die-Cast Metal for the Carriage - Painted Lead Horses - Wooden Plinth
- Country of Origin/Made In: England
Measurements (Excluding Wooden Plinth - Largest points):
- Height: 9cm
- Width: 6.5cm
- Length: 39cm
Condition: Fair to Good (With various wear)
Cosmetic Wear:
- General loss of paint in areas
- Various scuffs and patina (primarily on the Gold Coach)
- Wooden plinth has light wear
Physical Wear/Missing Parts:
- 3x Horses are missing part of a leg each
- Link chain connecting all horses (for show) is missing on both sides
- Rear axel on coach is slightly bent (Can be easily repaired)
- 2x Pairs of Horses are missing the metal pin to connect them to each other
- Original box not included
Die cast coach painted gold with a figure of the Queen inside, on her way to the Coronation
Made by Lesney Products & Co, the coach, known as LARGE coach
- 2x Male figures on the front seat of the coach
- 2x Angel figures on the rear
- Coach attached by draw bar and traces to 8 white slush cast lead horses, those on the left (of the coach view)
- Mounted by cast slush lead figures, painted with black, boots, red tunics and flesh coloured hands and faces
- Horses painted off white with red blankets, gold saddles and black harness
- Manes and tails painted grey with a gold chain for traces, the draw bar painted white
- Lesney originally made the coach in 1951 as a souvenir for the 1951 Festival of Britain
- However, due of the Korean war and the embargo on zinc it was shelved almost immediately
- In 1952 King George VI died and the embargo on zinc lifted
- Lesney started manufacturing the item again as a coronation souvenir.
- 200 were made when it was realized that the Queen would be sitting alone in the coach on her coronation day
- The model had two figures inside, the dies were quickly altered to remove the King
- (Although the lower half of his legs remain in the coach!).
- The horses were made by Benbros as Lesney did not want lead in their factory
- (As just a small amount of lead contamination to the zinc would make the metal unstable as it would crumble)
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