Collectors Gazette

Collectors Gazette - the only monthly newspaper for toy collectors! Keeping you up to date with all the latest collecting news, along with in-depth features on vintage diecast, railways, tinplate and TV & film models. We also bring you up to date price guides, event listings and swapmeet reports from around the country. The Digital version is fully interactive with exclusive images, videos, extra auction results and more!

Collectors Gazette

Quality rules at Bertoia sale

Dolls at Wallis

Fun and games

Heavy metal in Oz

NEW RELEASES THIS MONTH

Golden oldies at Vectis sale

Big Yeti in Japan

New Hot Wheels Building Sets

Coming up NEXT MONTH • AUGUST 2025 ISSUE

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What was the year? • Travel back in time, with Alwyn Brice.

Preserved with pride • Mark Nolan profiles the long journey of Britain’s iconic Austerity locomotives.

Diecast with a difference • Alwyn Brice looks back on an anomaly within the world of the model vehicle.

It figures • Gijs Noordam takes us for a trip down memory lane, guided by the figures of people and animals that came in or with the models.

Got… got… Need… • Libby Parfitt finds that the true essence and joy of collecting Panini stickers comes back to three little words…

10 minute TOY EXPERT! • Matchbox Major Pack

Back to the future • Ian McDermott looks at a range of Art Deco model cars.

Citroën DS19 • David Boxall takes a look at a particular model vehicle produced by different manufacturers during the 1950s and 1960s. This month our star guest is the Citroën DS19.

Attic finds… Pokemon cards • CharliePettit takes a look at what to do with things you might find in your attic – with the example of a common discovery: early Pokemon cards

Musings of a toy fair wife • Carol Hawling takes a trip down Memory Lane…

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ebuys • From collectables of the future to old favourites, eBay always manages to produce some amazing finds…and even more amazing prices!

PRICE GUIDE • Rounding up the latest toy sales from across the country with a brief visit to specialist auction rooms…

Toy Stories • Ed Karswell takes a nostaligic look at food items and the collectables that came with them…

Obsolete Oz • Our monthly gaze into the weird but wonderful world of collector/dealer Obsolete Oz. Buying and selling since the 1970s, Oz has developed a great knack for unearthing some amazing finds from flea markets, antique fairs, car boot sales, rubbish skips and even the local tip.

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