About Us
We are specialists in obsolete English and French Dinky and Corgi models.
We buy and sell only the very finest quality models. We buy outright or sell on commission for collectors. With a turnover of around £750,000 per year, we manage everything from individual models to the largest collections worldwide.
Please take a look through our category pages where you will find details of the many excellent models that we have in stock. Every model is carefully photographed, and described.
We guarantee that this information is accurate, otherwise you may return any item for a full refund or exchange.
We add items to our site almost every day.
We offer a personal and professional service and all of our models are carefully packaged and promptly despatched.
David Reitsis – Partner
As a science graduate, I worked from 1983-2000 in medical sales, before taking the decision to concentrate 100% on QDT. I have been selling toys since the late 1970’s and, along with Carole, built up a fledgling business at various U.K. toyfairs.
David is responsible for assessing collections and individual grading of items, photography, accounts, and customer relations.
Carole Reitsis – Partner
As an English graduate, I started a career as a teacher. With a young family in the late 1980’s, I enjoyed going to toyfairs with David and meeting collectors.
Carole is responsible for editing digital photographs, writing descriptions of models/grading of models, invoicing, and packing.
John Horler – Part-time member of the team
I studied ceramics at art school in the late 1970s, and have worked as a designer for prestigious worldwide tableware manufacturers since graduating.
I met David and Carole many years ago through my passion for diecast and tinplate toys. It is only recently that I have been assisting QDT to manage large collections of toys that require help from an additional pair of hands.
The birth of QDT
With the business expanding in the early 1990’s, we began advertising lists of Dinky and Corgi for sale in specialist magazines, so becoming QDT the mail order business.
In 2000 we developed a website, with both of us working full time. Together we meet customers, assess collections, and work on pricing and website/business development.
Although we do not have an extensive private collection, we enjoy and appreciate the collections that we handle and feel we have the one of the largest, ever-changing collections!
Finally, in case it’s not obvious, we love our business, we live and breathe it. We have handled some of the most fantastic collections, met people we never would have met, and have been to places we never would have visited.
