08 March 2012
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Special Auction Services to sell the Ron McCrindell Toy and Train Collection
The famous Ron McCrindell Toy and Train Collection is being offered for sale by Special Auction Services at Newbury on Friday 20th April. With some well-known and fine models included, it has already attracted interest from around the world. ...
The famous Ron McCrindell Toy and Train Collection is being offered for sale by Special Auction Services at Newbury on Friday 20th April. With some well-known and fine models included, it has already attracted interest from around the world.
One item from more than 300 lots that has got many collectors talking about it is the Märklin ‘HMS Terrible’, which appeared in the 2010 Toy Boats exhibition at the National Maritime Museum. It has attracted pre-sale estimates of £40,000 to £60,000.
Ron, who died in August last year aged 91, is widely acknowledged as one of the great pioneer UK toy collectors. The former landlord of the John Snow pub in Soho for many years, he started his collection shortly after WWII with some fine Märklin and Bing boats plus O gauge and gauge 1 model railways by the likes of Märklin, Carette, Bing, Bassett-Lowke and Hornby.
He enjoyed his large attic vintage model railway layout until almost his dying day and his collection also includes many tinplate toy cars, stationary engines and novelty toys.
Ron was the author of The Collector’s All-Colour Guide to Toy Trains, first printed in 1985 and reprinted seven years later. He also appeared in a 1972 BBC2 TV programme ‘Ron McCrindell’s Toys’, which included scenes of him sailing some of his boats on Hampstead ponds.
SAS is holding a Toys for the Collector sale on Thursday 29th and Friday 30th March, with a Music and Entertainment, Sport and Collectables auction planned for May.
PICTURED This Märklin ‘HMS Terrible’ will go under the hammer at Special Auction Services on 20th April.