Boxed 1950's Mighty Midget Benbros No.4 Orange Stagecoach & Brown Horses

Description: 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 in the later Metallic finish . I have found some info on 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 one is in an early colour it sems the first issues were orange, yellow, green or red, all with black wheels, brown horses and a little brown driver they would at first have come in the TV Series boxes and with these the hook and a balancing peg were a different shape from the later Metallic paint versions . This is a Benbros No.4 Orange Stagecoach with what look like chocolate brown horses but maybe Mid brown it's hard to tell from photos it has no driver , The shaft for holding the horses as with most if not all the early issues had no identification markings and this one came in a Mighty Midget box. ****It seems Benbros were not big on issuing catalogues or lists of their products **** so a couple of questions I have I found no definitive answer too the TV series was launched late 1954 and when in 1956 Benbros 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 . my questions are did Benbros in the early days of the Mighty Midget boxes re-box any remaining stock they had of the original colours as This No 4 is most certainly the original design the hook is of the old style and if they did to keep it in line with the new upgrades and metallic coloured models did they simply not include the driver . Condition It's in good order there are chips on the paintwork and some loss of colour on the wheels the diecast as far as I know has been boxed away and never played with the coach has some paint loss and small chips on the paintwork this is most likely due to movement in the box as this would have moved home with Dad then me half a dozen times in the last sixty plus years and had no internal packing for protection The horses are in very good condition all legs are here and only light signs of storage and age a few tiny paint chips the box is also in good order no missing flaps or tabs still bright in colour some signs of storage and age . ****Please see photos **** With postage I only ask what it costs to pack safely and send tracked service for safe keeping

Price: 16.99 GBP

Location: London

End Time: 2025-02-05T09:44:05.000Z

Shipping Cost: 21.48 GBP