INGAP

Monday, May 6, 2013
    (10th Day in a Row of Sun)

INGAP

    The INGAP toy company was an acronym (abbreviated set of letters) representing Industia Nationale Gicattoli Automatici Padova. The company was founded in 1920 in Padova, Padua, Italy.

They produced many fine toys of lithographed tip with clockwork (wind-up) mechanisms for movement.  In the 1950's, production changed from metal to plastic and the toys became smaller  in size. When I find more info on this great company, I will add it.

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The orange coupe (above) is the most-expense (winning bid) of this toys posted today.

It'snot my favourite,but it probably is the rarest of the group.

 We've see the perforated side vents in other manufacturers of this era. The same can be said for the external side exhaust pipe. But what makes this toy interesting is the helmeted driver, who just "peeks" over the front part of the seated area.

The logo of INGAP can be seen in the lower right corner, but the image size and DPI (Dots/inch) prevents me from showing it better. Basically it's the INGAP letters inside a diamond shape.

The Great Gadsby movie opens in North America (May 10) and in Europe (May 10-17). I like Leonardo DiCaprio, but I don't know if he was the right person for this part.  I'm sure the American-made movie will be extravagant, as many reviewers so far have said. As usual, the  movie publicity industry is busy working into the night to grind out plenty of reviews and publicity.

What I can say with certainty without even seen the movie yet (as 99.9999% of the world hasn't either), is that it will be beautifully photographed, have great period costumes, and lots of pomp, such as lavish cars.

THat's what the 2 limousines above remind me of - the era of the 1920's (The roaring 20's (1920's),

even  though the toy cars were made in the 1930's. 

A beautiful single-propeller airplane toy.

Umm!

Simply outstanding!

The mouse charter above is called Topo Lino. The history behind this character is very interesting. Apparently,  an Italian editor by the name of Mr. Mario Nerbini, decided to produce a weekly children;s newspaper with interesting comic characters.One of these was Mickey Mouse. The cartoonist was an Italian by the name of Mr. Giove Toppi. 

A problem arose when it was discovered that the editor, Mr. Nerbini, had not properly purchased the publication rights.  As a result, the name of the mouse character was changed to Topo Lino. Nevertheless, this character turned out to be a big success without the Disney name of Mickey Mouse. Eventually Disney and Mr. Nerbini renegotiated, and Mickey Mouse was back,but the name of the mouse was changed to TopoLino.**

**http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Topolino

If you go to the Wikipedia address above, the story is even more interesting.

Please go there - you will not be disappointed!

Happy Hooligan was a popular and influential early American comic strip, the first major strip by the already celebrated cartoonist Frederick Burr Opper. It debuted with a Sunday strip on March 11, 1900 in the William Randolph Hearst newspapers, and was one of the first popular comics with

King Features Syndicate.** 

**http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Happy_Hooligan

   That's it for today - another great find of period toys form the 1930's. It's amazing how I can still find great toys that I've never knew before.

Thanks for dropping by,

and as always, 

have a great part of the day,

wherever you may be.

Stacey