Via Walesonline.co.uk:

A treasure trove of decades old toys discovered in a shop that had been closed for years could end up fetching as much as £500,000.

The first auction in a series planned for the toys found in the Frank Beech Toy Shop, in Holywell, North Wales, fetched £58,500 – around double the expected £25,000 to £35,000.

John Cathrall, a cataloguer with Stockton-on-Tees auctioneers Vectis Auctions, said the first sale, which featured vintage Action Man and Star Wars figures, represented around only 10% of the shop’s contents.

One collector paid £200 for four empty cardboard boxes covered in pigeon droppings because they had labels on from manufacturer Palitoy indicating they once contained Star Wars toys.

Boxes were ‘absolutely awful’
Mr Cathrall added: “They used to have Star Wars (toys) in them so people wanted them. But they were absolutely awful.”

If the value of the first sale is replicated in a further nine auctions of the contents of the shop that first opened more than 70 years ago, the final figure could be around £600,000.

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