Bburago Collectors Book

These days there are not many new books indexing die-cast models. With the internet at hand it seems these catalogues that were available for all kind of collector items 10 to 20 years back are vanishing. Maybe it also lacks of people doing this painful work of collecting the data. The latest BBurago catalogue I found is this German title from Alba from 1996 with a price index in DM. The catalogue is more or less assembled from the little booklets that were in every box. The little extra red booklet inside gives your current values (as of 1996) and how rare or not the models are, 18 years later maybe of little use.

The book is still available at Amazon for ~ 10 Euro, but is not worth buying.

Modellauto-Katalog Bburago: 1:18 - 1:24

Collecting Die-Cast Models

I dont think I am a hardcore collector, hunting down very rare models but I enjoy collecting Bburago, Maisto and other Metal Models. If reasonable priced I buy used models with or without box as long the models still look good. Some models I trade or exchange. Overall I suspect the market changed a lot, while it seems in the 80's and 90's the collectors scene was very vivid, at least for Bburago, today there is way less interest in these models, even Bburago (since not an Italian product any longer) are maybe moving a bit into the toy section.

I will share some of my models and experiences while collecting in this blog.

Stay tuned..