Wednesday, February 5, 2025
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Introducing Kraft Auction Service
I'd seen Kraft Auction Service several times on LiveAuctioneer many times, but hadn't written to them to ask for their permission to write a blog post for them. If I had the time, I'd be writing blog posts for them about their numerous auctions. They have very interesting items that come through their auction company, but I have to stick with toys!
Nevertheless, when I find the time, I'll have a look at their other auctions!
Their auction company is located in Northwest Indiana, USA., and so, I wrote to them to ask for permission to write a post about their auction that I saw on LiveAuctioneers.
To quote their description from their excellent website:
"Kraft Auction Service is the premier Auction Company
based in Northwest Indiana with global reach, providing
services for equipment, estates, farm business liquidation,
collector cars, quality antiques and collectibles, benefit
real estate, and consignment auction".
The auction that caught my attention was on January 31, 2025.
It was titled:
"48th Anniversary Premier Toy Auction"
The auction was for their 48th Anniversary from when they first started
in 1976. The toys were auctioned on
"Day 6 of the Anniversary Auction"
and featured 1200+ lots of outstanding antique, vintage and collectible toys
including one of the best Cast Iron Collections in the country!"
What caught my attention even more was the excellent photography
and numerous photographs for each and every toy that was auctioned.
Kraft Auction Service uses such a diffuses soft lighting and their photography is excellent! Electronic flash heads are attached to what are called "softboxes".
The flash head is attached to the back of a "softbox", and the front is diffused with a white diffused material. The resulting lighting is easy to use, and there are only soft shadows (if any). Sometimes several softboxes will be used.
Moreover, for each and every toy that was up for auction, there were many photographs for each toy. Since buyers are from all over the USA and even sometimes, the world, photographs of the toys going to auction have to
show the toy easily and without dark shadows, where the detail may not be seen.
For this introductory blog post, I selected a beautiful
"Arcade Cast Iron Buick Sedan-Bank Version"
The description was as follows:
"Circa 1927- Arcade cast iron Buick sedan car. This us the very rare bank
version of this car. The car features rubber tires, Arcade Toy decal, and
nickeled driver. One of Arcades most desirable toys. Displays extremely
well with a great look and would be tough to find another. Measures
approximately 8-1/2" long. From the Paul Link Collection."
(8 1/2" = 21.59 cm)
The reason for my having selected this toy is its' tactile feeling (sensation of touch).
If you ever handled a cast iron toy, you'll know what I meant by touching
a heavy weighted toy made of cast iron.
As you can see, their photography is excellent, and the photographer takes plenty of photos to present each and every toy from all sides, and top and bottom.
So that's it for today.
The next post that I write will be about some of the many toys that
were auctioned with the excellent Arcade toy above.
Of course, you can always visit the link that I typed above at the beginning of this post (in a lilac (light purple) colour.
Thanks for dropping by my blog, and as always,
have a great part of the day or night,
wherever you may be.
My name is (Mr.) Stacey Bindman
and I can always be reached at:
toysearher@gmail.com
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