Matchbox models

[brightncheerful]

this might interest:

https://spitalfieldslife.com/2021/04/09/matchbox-models-by-lesney-company/

[staffordian]

And on a similar note, all the Meccano Magazines are available to download and read for free here...

http://pdfmm.free.fr/

Warning: Many hours can go missing when looking at these

[Redmires]

And here's another website to waste away the hours, Argos catalogues going back to the 70's. Look up how much you paid for your first transistor radio back in 1976 etc

https://retromash.com/argos/

[csearle]

A friend of mine has a teenage son who is "on the spectrum" (I am no experts in all this so don't know the correct terminology). Anyway his one major ability is to know the value of matchbox cars and the like. He is incredible. He buys and sells these things making money hand over foot. He seems to know the value of all of them! Once seen him trawling through the stalls at airshows trying to find a rarity. C.

[bungeejumper]

A friend of mine has a teenage son who is "on the spectrum" (I am no experts in all this so don't know the correct terminology). Anyway his one major ability is to know the value of matchbox cars and the like. He is incredible. He buys and sells these things making money hand over foot. He seems to know the value of all of them!

A long time ago, I used to work with an autistic/Aspergers guy who had a perfect number memory. Thousands upon thousands of them. (It was that kind of a business.) He never needed a phone book, back in the days when we all relied on such things. If he'd been told a number once, it was embedded in his circuitry for ever.

He had been banned from all the casinos because he could card count at blackjack. But the rest of his life was a mess. Couldn't organise anything, couldn't keep an appointment, couldn't even keep food in the house. Such is life "on the spectrum" sometimes.

BJ