Vectis

Vectis is a specialist auction house for toys and collectables. Founded by Roger and Jill Mazillius on the Isle of Wight in 1988, it now has a saleroom at Thornaby, Stockton-on-Tees.

As well as its regular sales, Vectis also offer Train and Toy sales from the Benn Hall in Rugby. Over the years, it has sold many highlights including a number of rare Dinky and Star Wars toys.

In 2022, the firm launched new departments for vinyl records, comic books and graphic novels, as well as books.

Kennerley’s Dinky vans deliver the specialist goods

 28 May 2002

A former chief executive of Vernon’s Pools hit the jackpot at Vectis (10 per cent buyer’s premium) on May 8-9, when the specialist toy auctioneers dispersed just over 2000 lots of his Dinky and Corgi vehicles at their Buckingham salerooms for a total of £350,000.

Fantasy land where the trains ran on time

 25 March 2002

One of the greatest public works that Sir Edwin Lutyens undertook was the erection of a doll’s house for Queen Mary in 1923. A miniature palace inside Windsor Castle, Mary’s doll’s house was more opulently decorated than the humble abodes of her loyal, grown-up subjects.

Rare Matchbox crane fetches £2600

 13 September 1999

UK: Vectis, the Stockton-on-Tees auctioneers hosted their monthly sale at The Royal National Hotel in London on September 8.

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