Collectors and dealers from all over the world bid on more than 1,000 lots of toys at a two-day auction which made £250,000 for Teesside toy auction house Vectis, in Buckingham.

Four pre-war Dinky toys in original boxes made £2,430 and a miniature book made for Queen Mary's Dolls House in 1923 fetched £805. A 1911 German doll realised £2,310