Dinky Toys
Dinky Toys is a label from Meccano Ltd. who has been producing toys in England since the 1950s.
Dinky Toys is best known for the old series of die -cast zinc die -cast toy cars that were sold until the 1970s. Some new models of these cars fetch prices of over 8,000 euros.
Dinky Toys first appeared in early 1934 when Meccano Ltd of Liverpool introduced their new model miniatures under the trademark "Meccano Dinky Toys" . The first ad for this series was published in Meccano Magazine in April 1934 . The models typically had a shrinking scale of 1:43.
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