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Tango01 Supporting Member of TMP02 Apr 2019 9:30 p.m. PST

"Merit was an extensive range of accessories made in Britain in the 1960s for the model railway market. The variety of products in this range, big and small, was impressive, but for our purposes we need only concentrate on the sets of figures, which were also surprisingly extensive. Each set came with about five figures, factory painted and standing on a clear circular plastic base. Originally these are packaged in what we would call matchboxes, shown below, but later they appeared in more modern blister packs…."

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