What is your most treasured item, show us :)

Mine is this dealer display, but as collectors value different things, I think it could be an awsome thread if everybody shows what's their personal favorite from their collection, both vintage and newer stuff, it's up to you :woohoo:

Karl-E. Denmark

http://i81.photobucket.com/albums/j216/karl-e/dealerdisplay.jpg

Thats a beautiful display that really does give you the best of Lesney regular wheels:thumbsup:
Trying to think big like Karl, I have one very obvious choice, its not made by Lesney but it is my most treasured possesion (cant count my wife as I dont own her, to quote Eddie Murphy, ´only lease that p----´) Wheels look a lot like hotwheels real riders!
http://i38.photobucket.com/albums/e113/SMS369/IM000243-1.jpg

In the days before I bought this car and when I lived in England, the real SMS88 was easily my most treasured item,still miss it today which is why I use its name for all forums I use.For the past 11 years the real SMS88 has been in the safe care of a British millionaire
http://i38.photobucket.com/albums/e113/SMS369/sms88/SMD88.jpg

hi karl that is truly awesome mate it displays well and i bet your proud of it , i would be .

cheers barry.

what a nice thought provoking question. i can easily see why that display would be a treasured item, i hope it is in a place where it can’t be bumped.
i don’t have one to picture right now, some remind me of a certain person or place. some sand box models that people have given me are just as important as a blistered model. a personal connection to a model to me can be worth more than value or condition. on the other hand, some are worth a few hundred times the original price. that doesn’t make it a treasured model, maybe just hard to believe.
have to do some more thinking:)

some remind me of a certain person or place. some sand box models that people have given me are just as important as a blistered model. a personal connection to a model to me can be worth more than value or condition.

This is exactly what I am "fishing after"; items that is treassured by it's owner, not necesarely because of it's value but the "history"
My dealer display is not my most trassured item because of the value it represent, but because I got in personal contact with a lot of collectors from all over the world (SMS88 among others :wave:) only a few of the models has been found on "the bay", the majority has been found with the good help of others :)

If, however a box miraculesly, turned up with all the long-gone heavily loved toys from my childhood. I know I would treassure it more than the display.

Karl-E.

This is exactly what I am "fishing after"; items that is treassured by it's owner, not necesarely because of it's value but the "history"

If, however a box miraculesly, turned up with all the long-gone heavily loved toys from my childhood. I know I would treassure it more than the display.

Karl-E.
I still have 80% of my original childhood cars, maybe 1/6 of them are still boxed with fair paint,and 1/4 of them are repainted.I have many memories and stories to go with these toys.
Here is a cabinet that I made at school when I was 15-16 and it contains almost half of my surviving 1/43 cars that date from age 3 to 12,including almost all the repaints.I can pick out the Austin 1800, Ford Corsair, 2 Ford Escorts and the 2 door Rolls as having by far the greatest sentimental value with memories of my dead father ,aunt and grandmother but I chose my real car over any toy everytime because driving it creates new memories mixed with nostaligic feelings, the toys are not creating anything new in my experience but they do re-enforce my sense of self and family.
Karl´s question is a tough one to give a single straight answer to beyond the first intuition which is my real sunday best car, and I have failed to find a diecast answer


http://i38.photobucket.com/albums/e113/SMS369/2008-May003.jpg

1971 Dodge Challenger
http://i164.photobucket.com/albums/u25/sylentjohn/My%20personal%20collection/ddgpolchal2l.jpg