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Matchbox Toys 1947 to 1998: Identification & Value Guide

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This book was a good listing of Matchbox die-cast for the time period specified. It listed all vehicles by collector number and then broke them out by vehicle. Not all cars are pictured. So if you don't know the name of the car, or the collector number it maybe difficult to find it in the listing.

I purchased this book and was not happy with it. It has a few pictures (less than one I purchased 5-6 yrs ago, which had more info & pictures). I have several items that aren't even in this book, (1956 ford pick-up w/ 2 motorcycles in the back, no info on this one, or several others I have). I would only recommend this book if you want to do alot of searching through words and still not find what your looking for. Otherwise, I don't recommend this book. Now I'm going to have spend more money to find another book with what I want in it.

I want to purchase more Matchbox cars for my collection, mostly the Miniature 1-75 series but there are so few pictures that the book is useless to me. The book is only good as a price guide for cars you already own and if you know the exact name of the car. If you want to purchase cars that you don't already know this information this book is completely worthless. DO NOT BUY THIS BOOK if what you want, are some nice pictures to use as a reference for adding to your collection or just to see what other cars are out there that you can buy!

I ALREADY HAVE 1 MATCHBOX CATALOGUE/PRICELIST FOR OLDER MODELS WHICH I HAVE A FEW. THE ONES I ACQUIRE NOW ARE MORE RECENT BUT SOMETIMES DATE BACK TO THE 80'S. THE CATALOGUE I RECEIVED HAS HARDLY ANY PICTURES ALTHOUGH I HAVE BEEN ABLE TO LOCATE MORE OF MY COLLECTION(ALMOST 175).I CAN'T IDENTIFY MY CARS FROM THE BOOK BECAUSE IT SEEMS THAT THE NEWER MODELS DON'T HAVE LETTERS/NUMBERS UNDERNEATH TO MATCH. I GUESS I WAS LOOKING FOR SOMETHING A LITTLE MORE IDENTIFYING TO MY COLLECTION WHICH WILL CONTINUE TO GROW. I AM ALSO TRYING TO FIND OUT HOW TO ACQUIRE THE "50 STATES" COLLECTION. I HAVE ABOUT 21 OR 22 OF THE STATES BUT THE STORES ONLY SEEM TO STOCK THE SAME STATES. OVERALL I AM PLEASED WITH THE BOOK ENOUGH. I'VE JUST GOTTEN MY 6 YEAR OLD SON INTERESTED SO OUR COLLECTION DAYS HAVE JUST BEGUN.THANKS FOR YOUR HELP USERBRO128--L.C.

While going through my 200+ car Matchbox collection, I found several discrepancies, missing models, and conflicting information compared to that printed on the car. This is not even close to comprehensive collection of Matchbox information.

I don't know if you can tell by the 37 pages of samples, but the book is difficult to read with its thin font and patterned background--very poor design.

Though the book says it goes through 1998, it leaves out several models that were copyrighted in 1998.

The author flat out states that he arbitrarily assigned letters to the model number designations as his way of showing major model changes. Unfortunately for me, I read this after updating my database.

Thankfully I purchased this with a gift certificate and didn't waste any more money on it.

While this product was nice due to pricing being on one page. Very limited pictures and no detailed description of products. Pricing I believe to be very low of other books on same products. This book is not for beginners due to little pictures and not very good descriptions.

If anyone knows where on the net to purchase the 50 state series of match box cars, please send the address. I have half of them & would like the others before December.