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How do you price a Corgi Toy? How scarce is it? Looking at the top 40 Corgi Toys with the lowest production periods and sales.

This amazing Gift Set is very rarely found now and certainly not on display with nicely-constructed items.

  Introduction There are die-cast toys, and then there are Corgi Toys. For collectors who grew up in the 1950s, 60s and 70s — or who have since discovered the extraordinary craftsmanship of that era — Corgi occupies a singular place. These weren't just playthings. They were miniature engineering achievements: opening bonnets, working suspension, jewelled headlights, and interiors at a time when rivals offered none of these things. This is the story of how a factory in Swansea changed the world of scale modelling forever. The Beginning: Mettoy and the Birth of Corgi (1956) Corgi Toys was launched in 1956...

August 1966 brought two new items on to your local Corgi store shelves. The Lotus Racing Team Gift Set was quite expensive at 36/- (that's 36 shillings, or the equivalent of £1.80) but there was a lot you could do with what it contained. In the box there are two Lotus Elans, each quite different from the #318 model issued a year earlier in July 1965. The green open top model with a yellow stripe has a red interior and a removable chassis. The hard-top version is in yellow with a green stripe and a white interior, also having a...