(17 Feb 2011)
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New York - 16 February 2011
1. Toy band from the Jerni Collection at Sotheby's auction house
2. Band conductor
3. Toy band
4. Various of toy trains
5. Set-up of David Redden, Vice Chairman of Sotheby's auction house
6. SOUNDBITE (English) David Redden, Vice Chairman of Sotheby's auction house:
"The only way you can build a collection like this is really over time, with passion, compulsion, and time. And this took about 50 years to put together."
7. Wide pan of Sotheby's showroom
8. Various of train station
9. Various of train station figurines
10. Close-up of train
11. Marklin train, one of three of this size in the world
12. Train station figurines
13. Trains and figurines
14. SOUNDBITE (English) David Redden, Vice Chairman of Sotheby's auction house:
"Our business is selling the best of the best and this is the best of the best. The best you can possibly find in the toy world. And I can tell you, the kinds of people who have been through this exhibition, some of our most important painting collectors, Impressionist paintings, Old Master painting collectors, have fallen in love with this, they have been enraptured with this collection."
15. Man taking room off one of the train stations
16. Interior of train station
17. Pan of collection
STORYLINE
MILLION DOLLAR TOY AUCTION
You wouldn't want to throw these toys in the playroom bin, even if you had one big enough.
Sotheby's auction house of New York is brokering the sale of a toy collection like no other.
US collector Jerry Green acquired 35-thousand vintage toys and trains over 50 years, keeping them in five basement rooms of his suburban Philadelphia home, Sotheby's said.
The auction house is putting 5,000 pieces on display until the end of the month.
The whole collection is valued in the tens of (m) millions of dollars but will not be auctioned.
Green hopes that an institution or individual will buy them and donate them to a museum.
The toys date from 1850 to 1940 and include rare, handmade and historically significant pieces.
They represent some of the best known European and American makers of the golden age of toy manufacturing, including Marklin, Bing, Ernst Plant Carette, and Rock & Graner.
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