Here's an interesting one. Seen at the Boothbay narrow gauge railway museum, a diorama of the 1913 Model T production line. There was no one to ask details but it seems to be about 1/32 scale (at a guess) and in monotone grey, it could be pewter. I wonder if it was someone's labour of love, or a professionally made model for some unknown purpose.
The other problem is that it was behind glass so I apologize for the reflections and shadows.
Apparently they were made by the Franklin Mint, in pewter and offered in 2003 for the centennial. There's a bunch of them out there for sale at a wide range of asking prices so they probably made a good number of them. Here's a website with pictures of the documentation:
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Franklin Mint stuff is really hard to value because they made a ton of it and some people collect it and some collectors laugh at it.
To add fuel to the fire I just noticed the one you posted is not the "Anniversary Edition" of which 2,500 were made so who knows how many are out there?
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