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Thanks to Henri Kroeze (visit his site at: http://www.tinytoycars.com/), this big picture of my Majorette collection is possible.
Henri Kroeze was kind enough to provide a copy of the book shown here, Les Miniatures
Majorette de 1975 a 1980 by Marc-Olivier Martinez - 2005. This wonderful
book is full of pictures of Majorette models. While it is mostly in French,
with a few English captions, the images are in my favorite universal language
- toy car. Being fluent in 'toy car' and having basic skills in French,
I was able to expand my understanding of the history of Majorette and
Rail Route, the earlier name for this famous French company. My French
is not good enough to understand why this book ends at 1980. Perhaps that
is when Majorette began moving their factory production from France to
Asia. Perhaps it simply sets the stage for volume two. I hope so.
Using the book, I pulled out all the models in my collection that are
included in the 1965-1980 period. Since I do not as a rule collect many
trucks, my collection has focused on the cars produced by Majorette. I
have color duplicates for many but I only add these when they are available
through trades or found for a good price at toy shows. The packaged models
have been added from toy shows and are displayed in my vintage Majorette
'tree' rotating rack. I was able to buy the rack when a local toy store
could no longer get Majorette models and had no use of it. The packages
shown here would have been opened if they had models not already in my
collection but as they are just duplicates or color variations, I leave
them packaged for my display rack. |
