chips, dents, or repairs), and working condition (e.g. doors or hoods that open), body-work (e.g. Points to note include colors (both interior and exterior), moving parts (e.g. While it’s bad form to Ctrl C + Ctrl V, you can study listings that are well crafted and use the same style in your own matchbox car listing. On certain listings, you’ll see something like ‘Please don’t copy-paste my listing!’ It’s a fair request since it takes weeks to do the research. Lesney #57 Chevrolet Impala Matchbox Blue With Box Check what features buyers want so you can emphasize them.Ģ. Targeting consumer categories makes your sales faster and more profitable. This isn’t a crucial step, but it makes reselling easier because you can segment your buyers. You can then separate your haul by quality, condition, category, brand, and year. That way, you can get tens or even hundreds at about a buck each. The best way to trade matchbox cars is to buy them in bulk at estate auctions, flea markets, garage sales, and the goodwill store. Matchbox Superfast Challenger#1 (3 Cars) England Hot Smoker Well.Most Valuable Matchbox Cars Worth Money 1. Several top collectors state they have never seen one (in person or a picture) and heard only rumors that it actually existed. There are three in our collection, to include the current record holder.Īlso shown is the Charles Lindbergh luncheon matchcover, dated the following day, June 15, 1927. Hobbyists will go an entire lifetime without ever seeing
In 2012 there wereĮleven known to exist, almost all are hidden in private collections. One strong possibility is that it was withheld and discarded because Captain Lindbergh was promoted to Colonel the week before, rendering the matchbook completely inaccurate. Nobody really knows why this book is so rare.
Apparently about 200 were made to be handed out at a special dinner in which 3,200 guests attendedĪt the Astor Hotel in New York honoring his 1927 flight across the Atlantic. Was $100.at the time more than a Honus Wagner baseballĬard. It is listed in the Guinness Book of World Records as the valuable matchcover in the world, sellingįor a record $6,000 in 2015. The Mendelson book was made by covering up a Binghamtonīook to include the staple, with paper and pictures.įamous Charles Lindbergh matchcover, dated June 14,ġ927, is the most coveted in the hobby. Given away on distant street corners (or Opera House got a hold of an Opera book, with about 100 Their own by looking at near exact examples or the Binghamton The only two known, Fendrich Tobaccoīook above and the Piso Cure book, both have printed Printed Binghamton books is only a strong theory, but Thought that they copied the idea from already seen This is now possibly proved to be innacurate. Out on street corners and created the first matchbookĪd. Hand-printed an ad with clipped pictures and gave them Hobby believing in the story that a group young desperateĮntertainers, bought a box of blank Diamond matchbooks, The difference here! This has left the entire Top) is now mysteriously missing when compared to the From rare modern picturesĪckman, the Binghamton name on the saddle (or It is displayed so infrequently, current pictures showing Opera matchbook, said to be the oldest and madeīy the Diamond Match Co., was actually made by Binghamton. There are only two branded Binghampton Matchbooks knownĬontrary to popular beliefs, the handmade Mendelson Infringement, forcing them out of business. who successful sued Binghamton for patent In 1895 Pusey sold his invention to the Diamond On Pusey's design, to include a distinctive striker The Binghamton Match Co.,Įstablished in Jan 1893, developed a matchbook based In September 1892 attorney Joshua Pusey patented theįirst friction matchbook.