Diecast news: Is the diecast collectors’ market in recovery mode?
I’ve noticed some recent sales on ebay in the last few months which suggest that the F1 diecast collectors market could be recovering. I don’t trade models myself but I get a lot of questions from other new and old collectors about values. If you had asked me about earlier in the year about the collector’s market, I would have said it seems the soft global economy is having an effect on the diecast sales – rare models that you don’t normally see are being offloaded by collectors and non-rare models are trading at very flat or low resale prices.
A few recent Spark 1:43 retail sales have raised my eyebrows:
- Brabham BT20 1966 World championship car for 199GBP (check out my post back in 2013 on this model when it was only around US$100)
- Barrichello Williams Renault FW32 2010 Spanish GP for 129GBP
- Clark Lotus 33 1965 World Championship car for 169GBP
- Laffite Ligier JS5 1976 Long Beach car for 178 EUR
Some recent ebay auction results for 1:43 Minichamps are also intriguing:
- De Angelis Lotus 88 1981 Long Beach practice car for 261 EUR!!
- Stewart Tyrrell Ford 006 (1973 world championship car) in the US for $US440.
- A few Fittipaldi McLaren M23’s (1974 world championship car) for $US370+
I’ll update my latest price reports section later this month to reflect some interesting secondary market sales during the year.
