Some of the first Dinky Toys ever made have fetched almost £50,000 at auction. Two boxes containing 12 rare delivery vans from the firm's infancy in 1933 were snapped up by a private collector.

The collection included rare Dinky Toys from the interwar period and from the 1950s and 60s. It also included a number of model cars from French Dinky.

A collection of thousands of rare Dinky toys sells for £150,000 at an auction of "international significance".

You have found a very rare Dinky Toy military gift set. It was made from 1939 until 1941. It is common to find Dinky Toys from this era with cracks in the die cast: this is known as metal fatigue.

Dinky Toys were made by British toy company Meccano Ltd from 1934 and pre-dated other marques like Corgi, Matchbox and Mattel's Hot Wheels. The trade name was bought up by Matchbox International ...

Toy owners may be sitting on a small fortune after a collection of rare Dinky toy vans sold for thousands at auction in Market Harborough. People are now being urged to check their collections to ...

A HUGE collection of Dinky Models is set to be sold for £250,000. The rare set of little toy vehicles has been amassed over 35 years by Dutchman Robert van der Hoort.

A collection of thousands of rare Dinky toys sells for £150,000 at an auction of "international significance".

A collection of thousands of rare Dinky toys sells for £150,000 at an auction of "international significance".