An Exceptional Seller on LiveAuctioneers

Tuesday January 16, 2024

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An Exceptional Toy Seller on

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After a long time, I've been trying to get back into writing again. So, a few days ago, I went to visit the Liveauctioneers websites to see if I might be inspired by a new toy seller. A good amount of companies that had their own websites have now moved to to Liveauctioneers to sell their toys, but still maintain their own websites. 

Sure enough, as I was perusing through the many toy sellers, one vendor attracted my attention. 

Their description was very well written, but the last sentence caught my attention.

**We don't just shoot for the Moon, we overachieve and shoot for Marz**

The play on words of their company name "Marz" was comical and brilliant!

Of course, I had to see what toys they had, and again, another great surprise! Their photography is exceptional. It reminds me when after about a year of blogging, and using people's photographs "as is", I decided to remove any different colours that toys were placed on, and simply place the toy on a white background. I found that placing a toy on a white background focussed all the attention on the toys. I did this in the photo-editing software Photoshop. Aside from their placing their toys on a white background, their photography is excellent in terms of lighting, focus, and angling the toys to the camera, which makes the toy more 3-dimensional.

Naturally, I wrote to the company, and I got a reply allowing me to use their fine photos, as well as their descriptions.

 I've made the written descriptions very brief. However, when you visit either LiveAuctioneers or the Marz Auction website, you will see very well-written descriptions of their toys that are up for auction.

Item details:

"Iconic Althof Bergmann Key Wind Fire Pumper with deluxe key wind mechanism.

Toy circa 1885 from New York, NY form Bergmann top features of the day for toys.

The fire engine is drawn by two horses.

16" long x 7" high.

Extra large J.E.P. Seaplane F260 with pontoons and windup key.

Nice original plane with strong windup motor and pilot.

Large wingspan 18" x 12.5" length.

(45.72 cm x 31.75 cm)

Giant Buddy L Wrecker toy truck.

Circa 1928 with a working winch.

28" long x 10" tall (71.12 cm x 25.4 cm)

"Tin Windup Delahane Open Touring sedan in Largest Size.

Likely by Pinard of France, as it is the largest in a flight of 3 cars offered circa 1918.

Attributed to Pinard, but we have seen it also J.E.P. of France.

Hand wrought in tin. 

Approximately 19" (48.26 cm) in length"

"Althof Bergmann Key Wind Fire Pumper with deluxe clockwork key wind mechanism". 

Toy circa 1885 from New York, NY firm Bergmann.

16" long x 7" high (40.64 cm  x 17.78 cm)"

"Deluxe" service airplane

22" ( 55.88 cm) wingspan" 

" Large Fleishmann / Carette Battleship of this series at 21" (53.34 cm)

Eight single barrel guns. Twin smoke stacks with twin towers and pennant flags."

Original tin battleship with German navy flag and anchor. Windup with original key."

You might want to visit the Marz Auctions website either at their website or on 

In either case, both sites are excellent in terms of either bidding on toys that you might like or researching a toy that you would like to know more about.

So that's it for today, on a cloudy, cold, and snowy day 

here in Montreal,Quebec (canada).

As always, 

Thanks for dropping by, 

and have a great part of the day or night, wherever you may be.

I can always be reached at:

toysearcher@gmail.com

and my name is (Mr.) Stacey Bindman