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Welcome to Harveys-Matchbox on !
Hello, many of you will recognize that name from my other listings here on . I'm in the process of setting up a new store in english especially for the US. As won't let me open a second store besides my german one under the same ID i had to set up this new ID "harveys-matchbox-us". So, unfortunaly i have to start from scratch with this new ID, if you would like to know how i performed in the past please check my response recieved for harveys-matchbox!
Please feel free to browse through my shop listings under my other ID ( most are in german but i will maintain the listings in english there untill this one here works fine ) and my online shop
and ask any questions you might have. Also please check my About Me page for more informations about my background, shipping and payment options.
If you're a serious Matchbox Collector check out my store, full of vintage Matchbox models ( 1-75 Regular Wheels & Superfast, King Size ), catalogs, Giftsets, Displays, Accessories....Matchbox 1-75 Series post Lesney / 1983 Macau / China / Thailand
What are resine prototypes? Before a new model was choosen for
production and the diecast moulds were made ( a new mould just for the
body casting usually costs a 5 figure amount before it's production
ready ) prototypes were made by hand from resine. These were made as
close as possible to the later production model to give the company an
idea how the production model would look like. These were also used as
an inexpensive way to create "decoration trial" models by beeing painted
in the planned colour schemes and decorated by hand in possible
liveries. These resine models were then shown to all related departments
of the company as well as the company who gave the permission to
produce "their" model. Every car maker requested a final approval from
their side before a model based on their own cars went into production.
Im most cases there were lots of changes requested during this process
leading to several different prototypes beeing made getting closer and
closer to the final casting. When all parties involved gave it a "go" to
a finalized prototype the production of the actual moulds started based
on that agreed final prototype. Here i can offer a few of such hand made
resine prototyes.
Matchbox Dodge Stealth
Well, here's your chance to own a model that was never put into production and only exist in pre-production form. This is an resine prototype of the Dodge Stealth, completely made out of resine and hand painted/decorated. When Dodge saw the final product they were not pleased and withdraw their permission to produce this model. Mint condition.If needed i will provide additional pictures and details, just contact me.
Shipping to the US & CA ( and anywhere else in the world ): $ 10. Thats airmail, registered ( proof of postage, tracking number, signature required on your end ).
I usually ship within one day after i recieved payment, most of my packages to the US and Canada are arriving there within 5-8 days.
Guarantee of authenticity:
I do guarantee the authenticity of each and any model or box i sell, no
fakes, repaints, replacement decals/labels/parts, customs or fotocopied
boxes! Everything here is original! In case of listing an repainted
model it will always be classified as such. Of course that guarantee
also covers all my older paper related collectors items such as
catalogs, leaflets, trade sheets and therelike. Anything i list is an
genuine vintage collectible item. I do not use any kind of
"reproduction" parts.
