CJ Alfa Romeo P2 – £5200 at Cottees.
Two targets for clockwork toy car collectors on the occasions they appear at auction are the CIJ Alfa Romeo P2 racing car and the Gunthermann model of Captain Campbell’s Blue Bird. Good examples of both came up for sale recently.
The large-scale 1920s pressed steel Alfa was something of a racing certainty when pitched at £1500-2000 at Cottees (15% buyer’s premium) of Poole on April 24. Similar models of the famous Lyon Grand Prix winner of 1925 by the Paris firm have stretched into five figures in the past, depending on condition.