tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-81595583599978175442024-03-18T12:21:22.314-07:00Old Antique ToysThis blog discusses old toys from the early 1920's to the end of the 1950's. All kinds of topics are discussed.
The time span was the greatest period for "hands-on" toys, where a young child could actually go outside and play for hours at a time.
You can see the elegance but simple design of these toys. It was a time when huge machines, and people made and finished toys by hand.
The era has long passed, but many of the toys are still around, and that is what I would like to share.toysearcherhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10535892434954886185noreply@blogger.comBlogger1555125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8159558359997817544.post-32273464938065874392024-03-18T11:20:00.000-07:002024-03-18T12:20:32.710-07:00I Crossed Over the Atlantic Ocean and Discovered a Great Find in "Little Nemo"<div style="text-align: left;"><i><span style="color: red; font-size: medium;">Monday, March 18, 2024</span></i></div><div style="text-align: left;"><i><span style="color: red; font-size: medium;">3° C / 38° F</span></i></div><div style="text-align: left;"><i><span style="color: red; font-size: medium;">Damp and Overcast</span></i></div><div style="text-align: left;"><i><span style="color: red; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="color: red; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="color: red; font-size: large;">I Crossed Over the Atlantic Ocean and </span></i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="color: red; font-size: large;">Discovered </span></i><i><span style="color: red; font-size: large;">a Great Find in "Little Nemo"</span></i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="color: red; font-size: large;"><br /></span></i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="color: red; font-size: medium;">I was scanning <b>Live</b>auctioneers, one of my most favourite websites for searching</span></i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="color: red; font-size: medium;"> for toys. By accident (as accidents do happen) I made a great discovery! </span></i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="color: red; font-size: medium;">I somehow had </span></i><i><span style="color: red; font-size: medium;">pressed one of the words on the main page, </span></i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="color: red; font-size: medium;">and all of a sudden I was seeing many European toy companies. </span></i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="color: red; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="color: red; font-size: medium;"><b>Wow!</b></span></i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="color: red; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="color: red; font-size: medium;">I didn't even know that <b>Live</b>auctioneers was in Europe.</span></i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="color: red; font-size: medium;">Where have I been </span></i><i><span style="color: red; font-size: medium;">after for the last 13 years?</span></i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="color: red; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="color: red; font-size: medium;">So I made the best of this "Eureka Moment", and started to look at the many different companies who sold toys. One of the companies is located in Italy, and its' name is</span></i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="color: red; font-size: medium;"><b>Little Nemo</b></span></i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="color: red; font-size: medium;">Well, with an eye-catching name "Little" Nemo, I most certainly had to visit</span></i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="color: red; font-size: medium;">their site, and see what was up for auction. I typed in the name in the top blank space </span></i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="color: red; font-size: medium;">and found their auction.</span></i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="color: red; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="color: red; font-size: medium;">What caught my eye even more, was the fact that the descriptions were not only in English, but they were also in Italian. Again, more interesting new discoveries.</span></i></div><p style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: red;"> </span><a href="https://www.liveauctioneers.com/auctioneer/1513/little-nemo-auction-house-srl/"><span style="color: #ffa400;"><b>Click here to redirect to the Little Nemo Auction Company</b></span></a></span></i></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: red; font-size: medium;"><i><b>Description</b></i></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: red; font-size: medium;"><i>Lithographed tin chauffeured car, <b>Cardini</b> Italia Model 38-1927.</i></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: red; font-size: medium;"><i>With spring mechanism working, integrated wind-up key,</i></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: red; font-size: medium;"><i>Size (L x W x H )</i></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: red; font-size: medium;"><i>20 cm x 8 cm x 10 cm</i></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: red; font-size: medium;"><i>(7.87" x 3.15" x 3.94")</i></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh47kI6U5aMx9V-VC0LWbydXDpVCCYQ6DER7gkk7DsYGf7d9keRYjN_e3j-AjZ59PH9qYHpdOFUjRhQ9asK3OnAPYSgADmW-Dc3Yfmhy93d7ClclLTCUEgzvckBGJN2Zg8nx-xiM3ValLGdevPJ2AzXMmUxe7FZMgzAw4QAhCOIGHLx0mho7MWgYiL1FkU/s1578/LN-Photo-1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1247" data-original-width="1578" height="253" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh47kI6U5aMx9V-VC0LWbydXDpVCCYQ6DER7gkk7DsYGf7d9keRYjN_e3j-AjZ59PH9qYHpdOFUjRhQ9asK3OnAPYSgADmW-Dc3Yfmhy93d7ClclLTCUEgzvckBGJN2Zg8nx-xiM3ValLGdevPJ2AzXMmUxe7FZMgzAw4QAhCOIGHLx0mho7MWgYiL1FkU/s320/LN-Photo-1.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><i style="color: red; font-size: large;"><u><br /></u></i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><i style="color: red; font-size: large;"><b>Description</b></i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><i style="color: red; font-size: large;">Lithographed tin model, <b>Ingap</b>, Italy, 1933.</i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><i style="color: red; font-size: large;">Spring mechanism with integrated key, working.</i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><i style="color: red; font-size: large;">Length: 16 cm ( 6.3")</i></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgt3MhjupTmCnyxm8ezU_svYiSm4aXwerhPo7B2uFmw-WFDQHn-99LcdR1dpMa173ZDL_DiDE355NHlBHOd1ERTsvW59fel-aYmsKPaW275rm1JuCB7YDVoXVsaDDCSar6fDdz844aK01_xpz_DfIl11VpF737Qy3frEIE5tWbP6zqNqgtN7fonlBfj42k/s1534/LN-Photo-2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1171" data-original-width="1534" height="244" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgt3MhjupTmCnyxm8ezU_svYiSm4aXwerhPo7B2uFmw-WFDQHn-99LcdR1dpMa173ZDL_DiDE355NHlBHOd1ERTsvW59fel-aYmsKPaW275rm1JuCB7YDVoXVsaDDCSar6fDdz844aK01_xpz_DfIl11VpF737Qy3frEIE5tWbP6zqNqgtN7fonlBfj42k/s320/LN-Photo-2.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="color: red; font-size: medium;"><b>Description</b></span></i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: red; font-size: medium;"><i> Aerodynamic model <b>Schuco</b> car spring and blow mechanism,</i></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: red; font-size: medium;"><i>Germany 1930's, and with a wind-up key.</i></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: red; font-size: medium;"><i>Length: 14 cm (5.51 inches)</i></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj1WBNZcqpnye-5vK9i2rc8Pokcfj4SjK2MwR7FnscZnX_S-5PfSI-DwrrFwnjmzx77BUiIGtgwjW3PgmAAL6j9GqRm8iOrtBl7wK0kGs_KaOPr1ggbunwnQTWRDZW92lJ3FIbyMOuy_RdTqmecMN2cWowZvgfnl0zG0YQUfWE7geULuHiF3fBJkwIGAgU/s1645/LN-Photo-3.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1042" data-original-width="1645" height="203" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj1WBNZcqpnye-5vK9i2rc8Pokcfj4SjK2MwR7FnscZnX_S-5PfSI-DwrrFwnjmzx77BUiIGtgwjW3PgmAAL6j9GqRm8iOrtBl7wK0kGs_KaOPr1ggbunwnQTWRDZW92lJ3FIbyMOuy_RdTqmecMN2cWowZvgfnl0zG0YQUfWE7geULuHiF3fBJkwIGAgU/s320/LN-Photo-3.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: red; font-size: medium;"><b><i>Description</i></b></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: red; font-size: medium;"><i>Screen-printed tin with inspectable hood. <b>Schuco </b>Company</i></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: red; font-size: medium;"><i>Germany, 1930's. Working spring mechanism, </i></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: red; font-size: medium;"><i>and voice command (to be verified). </i></span><i style="color: red; font-size: large;">In original </i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><i style="color: red; font-size: large;">packaging containing instructions in Italian and original key.</i></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhFHUYtyxoXUe3i8Mt6y6hlIZnBtJE6ru-J_G9Sx8c2DX5wsvnlEYSLm9qgnhsInxAyGhLBE1w9HCvkWsMd1zlqG_UBHsz5on31j45bUCruOpTBT0m7T6z2JBTsMgQH-yJN9tjqc8VfmDz-pP7eH8GYaJvbaAqDy378uQF99NTA9wRFFpoMTSf1Gty57rY/s1521/LN-Photo-4.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1041" data-original-width="1521" height="219" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhFHUYtyxoXUe3i8Mt6y6hlIZnBtJE6ru-J_G9Sx8c2DX5wsvnlEYSLm9qgnhsInxAyGhLBE1w9HCvkWsMd1zlqG_UBHsz5on31j45bUCruOpTBT0m7T6z2JBTsMgQH-yJN9tjqc8VfmDz-pP7eH8GYaJvbaAqDy378uQF99NTA9wRFFpoMTSf1Gty57rY/s320/LN-Photo-4.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: red; font-size: medium;"><i><b>Description:</b></i></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: red; font-size: medium;"><i>Lithographed tin car with driver; <b>Cardini</b>, Italia, 1925.</i></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: red; font-size: medium;"><i>With spring mechanism, working, and built-in key.</i></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: red; font-size: medium;"><i>Size (L x W x H)</i></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: red; font-size: medium;"><i>20 cm x 8 cm x 8 cm</i></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: red; font-size: medium;"><i>(7.87" x 3.15" x 3.15")</i></span></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhHIcThKxt_IWoB28xmaN8lnwCp5ihgWPiTsipBvAoZFfrH5PvBXHHuQ8G6SjXFuq_3GfjgRWIsvfB6M9j6PvY3E4eJ5p6shn-fydOzTkGlkNKHqykyZh9oiuK-hBLdIU0r0wj1Fka_IkHzfGabCuIA1J0PCyzzVR7bQR-XETW6j6hfuPqOcp0cri19oIQ/s1528/LN-Photo-5.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1080" data-original-width="1528" height="226" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhHIcThKxt_IWoB28xmaN8lnwCp5ihgWPiTsipBvAoZFfrH5PvBXHHuQ8G6SjXFuq_3GfjgRWIsvfB6M9j6PvY3E4eJ5p6shn-fydOzTkGlkNKHqykyZh9oiuK-hBLdIU0r0wj1Fka_IkHzfGabCuIA1J0PCyzzVR7bQR-XETW6j6hfuPqOcp0cri19oIQ/s320/LN-Photo-5.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: red; font-size: medium;"><b><i>Description:</i></b></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: red; font-size: medium;"><i>Painted tin model with wood chassis, Italy,1940's.</i></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: red; font-size: medium;"><i>Working spring mechanism</i></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><i><span style="color: red; font-size: medium;">Size ( L x W x H)</span></i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><i><span style="color: red; font-size: medium;">45 cm x 13 cm x 10 cm</span></i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><i><span style="color: red; font-size: medium;">(17.7" x 5.11" x 3.93")</span></i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhoVUVQEQnj50qW0Tv_1Dyh-vXKAIyX9kOcjWhGZOeFfEKnyZGMmZ1KAvQfNI0z4KrSenanOLpFnkvivDVqmPjWCgUDqUZS-sHzi86YzBGC0uQHRW1rEFKFOylSu3i2UpkIpK81Bwi6k3hgyWUgGzEEIcVi8wyGigzA_6UiQAwzEbb-_1-Hz3DIsiYSc4g/s1511/LN-Photo-6.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1118" data-original-width="1511" height="237" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhoVUVQEQnj50qW0Tv_1Dyh-vXKAIyX9kOcjWhGZOeFfEKnyZGMmZ1KAvQfNI0z4KrSenanOLpFnkvivDVqmPjWCgUDqUZS-sHzi86YzBGC0uQHRW1rEFKFOylSu3i2UpkIpK81Bwi6k3hgyWUgGzEEIcVi8wyGigzA_6UiQAwzEbb-_1-Hz3DIsiYSc4g/s320/LN-Photo-6.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b style="color: red; font-size: large;"><i>Description:</i></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: red; font-size: large;"><i>Fireman on Ladder by Fernand Martin</i></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: red; font-size: large;"><i>Metal automaton with spring mechanism, early 1900's</i></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: red; font-size: large;"><i>Size (H)</i></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: red; font-size: large;"><i>22 cm (8.66")</i></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhTeD1-U8p561KcY77YXE9mW-ZcbeAyQ7WIrfrETSutXR4T82Xeyzn1WurTCiUI1pXd6SzMROx9iJrjQ4SdC5_rYT2J7Bo3o-ocfe6AaqRkksMWsx7lMyCpJ5aejie-4AzKVjVNmtPc2XHPuAijEd3KIPAqfhVUC3jp3FG4x_lSfyDKiQfi8FGt68L3kVc/s1546/LN-Photo-7.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1277" data-original-width="1546" height="264" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhTeD1-U8p561KcY77YXE9mW-ZcbeAyQ7WIrfrETSutXR4T82Xeyzn1WurTCiUI1pXd6SzMROx9iJrjQ4SdC5_rYT2J7Bo3o-ocfe6AaqRkksMWsx7lMyCpJ5aejie-4AzKVjVNmtPc2XHPuAijEd3KIPAqfhVUC3jp3FG4x_lSfyDKiQfi8FGt68L3kVc/s320/LN-Photo-7.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: red; font-size: medium;"><i><b>Description:</b></i></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: red; font-size: medium;"><i>Fortunello in Carrozzella Ingap n.</i></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: red; font-size: medium;"><i>Spring lithographed tin toy, 1928 in working condition</i></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="color: red; font-size: large;"><i>Size (H x L)</i></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="color: red; font-size: large;"><i>11 cm x 18 cm) </i></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="color: red; font-size: large;"><i>(4.33" x 7.09")</i></span></div></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiPvPYRHoL_WMOh4o8v8ikxme-2w49gOop7efX95ul5FjYwFUPP2rBNZbvq3XqNQC4CVjklioLNuMMLH-Yu7UWMtJsWteOnmdGJ1cmd9UkSuhm3hwaPyN-yKIX0LQC5Pv_lI5G46m2JcinUi8u5zKoSwR7T931QMyYZSK4UCQPZxwu54_jBZ5T91QYMUyc/s1772/LN-Photo-8.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1295" data-original-width="1772" height="234" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiPvPYRHoL_WMOh4o8v8ikxme-2w49gOop7efX95ul5FjYwFUPP2rBNZbvq3XqNQC4CVjklioLNuMMLH-Yu7UWMtJsWteOnmdGJ1cmd9UkSuhm3hwaPyN-yKIX0LQC5Pv_lI5G46m2JcinUi8u5zKoSwR7T931QMyYZSK4UCQPZxwu54_jBZ5T91QYMUyc/s320/LN-Photo-8.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><i style="color: red; font-size: large;"><b>Description:</b></i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: red; font-size: medium;"><i>Cardini tram in lithographed tin,Italy, 1920's.</i></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: red; font-size: medium;"><i>Working spring mechanism, in very good condition.</i></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: red; font-size: medium;"><i>Size: (L x W x H)</i></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: red; font-size: medium;"><i>20 cm x 6 cm x 10 cm</i></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: red; font-size: medium;"><i>7.87" x 2.32" x 3.98")</i></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiTQG9KyV4WYwwVor92PJ3VBzznC-xccLbcMa2yPOSZZmVUdnkQ6sfDmuhzjI3YmK8bypFKmVlbK1wE282v3wLaPOoL3HMoHEyN4r4W9VatbUuREvdR2xE6W4QlqCCSmdZwctCsOz3zZiW2scp3BUDv7NP9cqlE3eRE8eYlVwqV6XrucdkJbx6dLM3YmBc/s1509/LN-Photo-9.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1040" data-original-width="1509" height="221" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiTQG9KyV4WYwwVor92PJ3VBzznC-xccLbcMa2yPOSZZmVUdnkQ6sfDmuhzjI3YmK8bypFKmVlbK1wE282v3wLaPOoL3HMoHEyN4r4W9VatbUuREvdR2xE6W4QlqCCSmdZwctCsOz3zZiW2scp3BUDv7NP9cqlE3eRE8eYlVwqV6XrucdkJbx6dLM3YmBc/s320/LN-Photo-9.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: red; font-size: medium;"><b><i>Description:</i></b></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: red; font-size: medium;"><i>Ditta Ingap, Italy, 1928. Lithographed tin model. Functioning</i></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: red; font-size: medium;"><i>clockwork mechanism with integrated key. </i></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: red; font-size: medium;"><i>Partially absent </i></span><i style="color: red; font-size: large;">tank track.</i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><i style="color: red; font-size: large;">Size: (L x W x H)</i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><i style="color: red; font-size: large;">23 cm x 10 cm x 11 cm</i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><i style="color: red; font-size: large;">9.05" x 3.98" x 4.33"</i></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgacC4qwv-MaFMQ_TYVI5IFl5SNXMq5ZgRe3vpDu5Jx1spAS_NyzLcBQR4GVpNxriiioAv4nfAd6TAR4vgwQtHc3tBzoa3IUtAvLdrmS8WefBXZY9iHqURZVQUUPluTrYrGzbxht7743OImHe11y6MSko6qWIsXJu6gZhUL7hJmRWnHpgQYJJcybatERd4/s1700/LN-Photo-10.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1285" data-original-width="1700" height="242" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgacC4qwv-MaFMQ_TYVI5IFl5SNXMq5ZgRe3vpDu5Jx1spAS_NyzLcBQR4GVpNxriiioAv4nfAd6TAR4vgwQtHc3tBzoa3IUtAvLdrmS8WefBXZY9iHqURZVQUUPluTrYrGzbxht7743OImHe11y6MSko6qWIsXJu6gZhUL7hJmRWnHpgQYJJcybatERd4/s320/LN-Photo-10.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: red; font-size: medium;"><i>What's interesting about visiting a European auction company is that </i></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: red; font-size: medium;"><i>you get to see toys that may not have crossed the Atlantic or been imported to</i></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: red; font-size: medium;"><i>North America. Moreover, the European countries, I would presume, have more access to European old and antique toys, and correspondingly, the North American countries would</i></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: red; font-size: medium;"><i>have more access to American toys.</i></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: red; font-size: medium;"><i><br /></i></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: red; font-size: medium;"><i>Another factor that I have not checked out are prices of the same toys, but on different continents. Are old and antique European toys in Europe less or more expense, and once again, does the same hold true for American toys in North america. And what about the opposite? Do American toys cost more in Europe, and European toys in North America cost more also?</i></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: red; font-size: medium;"><i><br /></i></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: red; font-size: medium;"><i>Questions, Questions, Questions.......</i></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: red; font-size: medium;"><i><br /></i></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: red; font-size: medium;"><i>So that's another post that I found fun to write and learned much discovering a fine European Company by the great name of <b>"Little Nemo".</b></i></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: red; font-size: medium;"><i><br /></i></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: red; font-size: medium;"><i>Now if I had more time, I'd be trying to learn some Italian. </i></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: red; font-size: medium;"><i><br /></i></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: red; font-size: medium;"><i>When you visit a European auctioneer such as <b>"Little Nemo"</b>, </i></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: red; font-size: medium;"><i>the descriptions are bilingual with Italian and English descriptions and all </i></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: red; font-size: medium;"><i>other writing.</i></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: red; font-size: medium;"><i><br /></i></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: red; font-size: medium;"><i>Have a look, across the ocean, and you'll be most surprised!</i></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: red; font-size: medium;"><i><br /></i></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: red; font-size: medium;"><i>As always, thanks for dropping by,</i></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: red; font-size: medium;"><i>and have a great day or evening wherever you may be.</i></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: red; font-size: medium;"><i><br /></i></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: red; font-size: medium;"><i>My name is (Mr.) Stacey Bindman,</i></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: red; font-size: medium;"><i>and I can always be reached at</i></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: red; font-size: medium;"><i><br /></i></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: red; font-size: medium;"><i><b>toysearcher@gmail.com</b></i></span></div><br /><p style="text-align: center;"><br /></p>toysearcherhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10535892434954886185noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8159558359997817544.post-48007929810732519232024-03-17T15:41:00.000-07:002024-03-17T15:41:12.124-07:00It's always nice to visit Z & k Antiques<div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet;"><i><span style="color: #ffa400;"> </span><span style="color: #ffa400; font-size: medium;">Sunday, March 17, 2024</span></i></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet;"><i><span style="color: #ffa400; font-size: medium;"> Overcast and raining</span></i></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet;"><i><span style="color: #ffa400; font-size: medium;"> 7° C / 44° F</span></i></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet;"><i><span style="color: #ffa400; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></i></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet;"><i><span style="color: #ffa400; font-size: large;">Another Nice Visit to Z & k Antiques</span></i></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet;"><i><span style="color: #ffa400; font-size: large;"><br /></span></i></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-family: trebuchet; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiyHQqVnsYxjh87R9GsgiJ3Nve3EciD_-HSNj_coHOxx9o7bJKAyCYDGDJCz0XsJV7m0PSMzs4UbGdTJ6ovnKAvjHkqRiKRc20LAaMmuk1TMh3-4H6oUQEXTJ_EVb14Ebm3TTRJcXt4x4PzqlXljlmZZSZq4aT_30b6F_Bz2Mk76PYeahHQZ53mXMfHxUc/s308/Screen%20Shot%202024-03-17%20at%2017.10.03.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="156" data-original-width="308" height="156" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiyHQqVnsYxjh87R9GsgiJ3Nve3EciD_-HSNj_coHOxx9o7bJKAyCYDGDJCz0XsJV7m0PSMzs4UbGdTJ6ovnKAvjHkqRiKRc20LAaMmuk1TMh3-4H6oUQEXTJ_EVb14Ebm3TTRJcXt4x4PzqlXljlmZZSZq4aT_30b6F_Bz2Mk76PYeahHQZ53mXMfHxUc/s1600/Screen%20Shot%202024-03-17%20at%2017.10.03.jpg" width="308" /></a></div><span style="color: #ffa400;"><a href="https://zandkantiques.com/"><span style="color: #ffa400; font-family: Dancing Script; font-size: large;">Please click here to visit this very nice website</span></a><br /></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-family: trebuchet; text-align: center;"><br /></div></i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet;"><i><span style="color: #ffa400; font-size: medium;">It's always nice to visit Z & k Antiques. Of course, their toys for sale are very well chosen, and I am always enthused to see what they are selling. But what I also like is to see all of their other categories of items that are being sold. They have carefully selected what is for sale, and they have several interesting categories that I always like to see. </span></i></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet;"><i><span style="color: #ffa400; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></i></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet;"><i><span style="color: #ffa400; font-size: medium;"> Their12 categories are:</span></i></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet;"><i><span style="color: #ffa400; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></i></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet;"><i><span style="color: #ffa400; font-size: medium;"> * Advertising<span> </span><span> <span> </span>* Folk Art<span> </span><span> <span> <span> </span></span>* Textiles</span></span></span></i></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet;"><i><span style="color: #ffa400; font-size: medium;"><span><span> * Americana<span> </span><span> * Gameboards<span> </span><span> </span><span>* Toys </span></span></span></span></span></i></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet;"><i><span style="color: #ffa400; font-size: medium;"><span><span><span><span> * Ceramics * Mechanical Banks * Whirligigs & Weathervanes</span></span></span></span></span></i></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet;"><i><span style="color: #ffa400; font-size: medium;"><span><span><span><span> * Country Antiques * Stoneware * Woodenware</span></span></span></span></span></i></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet;"><i><span style="color: #ffa400; font-size: medium;"><span><span><span><span><br /></span></span></span></span></span></i></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet;"><i><span style="color: #ffa400; font-size: medium;"><span><span><span><span>Sometimes, I stray away from their toy section, and wander </span></span></span></span></span></i></span><i style="font-family: trebuchet;"><span style="color: #ffa400; font-size: medium;">from one category to another. </span></i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i style="font-family: trebuchet;"><span style="color: #ffa400; font-size: medium;">The next thing I realize, is that an hours has past, </span></i><i style="font-family: trebuchet;"><span style="color: #ffa400; font-size: medium;">and I haven't even been to the toy section!</span></i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i style="font-family: trebuchet;"><span style="color: #ffa400; font-size: medium;"> Their company presents American "treasures"of all kinds. I've always been very inquisitive, and I like to meander around their among the many different sectors to see their fine merchandise.</span></i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i style="font-family: trebuchet;"><span style="color: #ffa400; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i style="font-family: trebuchet;"><span style="color: #ffa400; font-size: medium;">Alas, I must get back to toys!</span></i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i style="font-family: trebuchet;"><span style="color: #ffa400; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i style="font-family: trebuchet;"><span style="color: #ffa400; font-size: medium;">I've only selected 1 item to present from their fine grouping of toys. The reason. is that when I visit their website, it's so well designed and organized. And the photography is excellent - simple, superbly photographed, illuminated, and on white. Being a teacher of pro photography, as well a a photographer, I can appreciate all that the 2 owners have done to make their website so nice. </span></i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i style="font-family: trebuchet;"><span style="color: #ffa400; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i style="font-family: trebuchet;"><span style="color: #ffa400; font-size: medium;">Bob Zordana and Heidi Kellner are the 2 owners of Z & k Antiques.</span></i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet;"><i><span style="color: #ffa400; font-size: medium;"><span><span><span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span></span></span></span></span></i></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; color: #ffa400; font-size: x-large; font-style: italic; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjR38IwMgV5o5fDkQThRfmKIIzSXwiC0QJEutx67rra7R8v8y1DY6TMLWOzZTmajF3CnqIEna7YFf9dWuUBi6Y1XGOXPGh2vFeAFFQ563dthFHNsmK-oiVJcwrh5z71W8sX48I3pbdVMJVSQuKgYP148GUj5gkHWKsFx0LR_Xo8Xgy2K90bhrx37q4Zkj0/s1368/Z%20&%20K-1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; 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color: #ffa400; font-size: x-large; font-style: italic; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjwWR3AsEXiG5i7eYLnlg0vT9HMTwU6GClT3bWZ8cPDhzNpEVBrmGz52lgMRmnfcyyDj9hzisJjkoRFY7ZkXIpl_RHCyLPYXdXOgDQnEsd5sUIA-JQ6PHw5d0d6XwZBKgr_Lb_0HM3PiaarPiGxtYd0H_7rD5BCUjmQK9OuM596GSg7bDTq_84WbfpoLMk/s1217/Z%20&%20K-6.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1217" data-original-width="923" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjwWR3AsEXiG5i7eYLnlg0vT9HMTwU6GClT3bWZ8cPDhzNpEVBrmGz52lgMRmnfcyyDj9hzisJjkoRFY7ZkXIpl_RHCyLPYXdXOgDQnEsd5sUIA-JQ6PHw5d0d6XwZBKgr_Lb_0HM3PiaarPiGxtYd0H_7rD5BCUjmQK9OuM596GSg7bDTq_84WbfpoLMk/s320/Z%20&%20K-6.jpg" width="243" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; color: #ffa400; font-style: italic; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Description:</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; color: #ffa400; font-style: italic; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; color: #ffa400; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">"Rare Cast Iron Kenton Sight-Seeing Auto</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; color: #ffa400; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; color: #ffa400; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">"<b>Circa 1905</b>:<b> </b>What a pleasure it is to offer this extremely scarce Kenton Sight-Seeing Auto to the antique collecting community! Comic character automotive toys are far and few between, but the hefty 10" Sight-Seeing Auto is in a class of its own. This spectacular example is completely original, including its paint, steering wheel, and its five characters, which include Gloomy Gus, The Sailor, Mama Katzenjammer, Papa Katzenjammer and Happy Holigan, and has no chips, cracks, or repairs. One of the great antique American cast iron toys, the Kenton Sight-Seeing Auto was modelled after the early 20th century tour bus and features its five cohorts ready to take in all the stops contained in the owner's imagination."**</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; color: #ffa400; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><i><span style="color: #a64d79; font-size: medium;">(The above description was copied from the original description on the Z & k website**)</span></i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; color: #ffa400; text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; color: #ffa400; text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-size: medium;">I purposely limited this post to this superb and comical antique Kenton toy.</span></i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; color: #ffa400; text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; color: #ffa400; text-align: center;"><i style="color: black;"><span style="color: #ffa400; font-size: medium;">Bob Zordana and Heidi Kellner will have to "forgive me" for trying to emulate their superb layout, design, and graphic design of their website.</span></i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; color: #ffa400; text-align: center;"><i style="color: black;"><span style="color: #ffa400; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; color: #ffa400; text-align: center;"><i style="color: black;"><span style="color: #ffa400; font-size: medium;">Currently, they have many other fine toys that are for sale or viewing, </span></i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; color: #ffa400; text-align: center;"><i style="color: black;"><span style="color: #ffa400; font-size: medium;">so have a look. </span></i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; color: #ffa400; text-align: center;"><i style="color: black;"><span style="color: #ffa400; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; color: #ffa400; text-align: center;"><i style="color: black;"><span style="color: #ffa400; font-size: medium;">as always, thanks for dropping by,</span></i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; color: #ffa400; text-align: center;"><i style="color: black;"><span style="color: #ffa400; font-size: medium;">and have a great part of the day or night,</span></i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; color: #ffa400; text-align: center;"><i style="color: black;"><span style="color: #ffa400; font-size: medium;">wherever you may be.</span></i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; color: #ffa400; text-align: center;"><i style="color: black;"><span style="color: #ffa400; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; color: #ffa400; text-align: center;"><i style="color: black;"><span style="color: #ffa400; font-size: medium;">My name is (Mr.) Stacey Bindman,</span></i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; color: #ffa400; text-align: center;"><i style="color: black;"><span style="color: #ffa400; font-size: medium;">and I can always be reached at:</span></i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; color: #ffa400; text-align: center;"><i style="color: black;"><span style="color: #ffa400; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; color: #ffa400; text-align: center;"><i style="color: black;"><span style="color: #ffa400; font-size: medium;">toysearcher@gmail.com</span></i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; color: #ffa400; text-align: center;"><i style="color: black;"><span style="color: #ffa400; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; color: #ffa400; text-align: center;"><i style="color: black;"><span style="color: #ffa400; font-size: medium;"> </span></i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; color: #ffa400; font-size: x-large; font-style: italic; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; color: #ffa400; font-size: x-large; font-style: italic; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; color: #ffa400; font-size: x-large; font-style: italic; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><span style="color: #ffa400; font-size: large; font-style: italic;"> </span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet;"><i><span style="color: #e69138; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></i></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet;"><i><span style="color: #e69138; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></i></span></div>toysearcherhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10535892434954886185noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8159558359997817544.post-86881150973974105782024-03-16T11:58:00.000-07:002024-03-16T14:34:07.637-07:00Toys Trains and Other Stuff<div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: red; font-size: medium;"><i>Sunday, March 17, 2024</i></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: red; font-size: medium;"><i>Clouded Over with Rain</i></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: red; font-size: medium;"><i>7° C / 44.6</i></span><i style="color: red; font-size: large;">° F</i><i style="color: red; font-size: large;"> </i></div><div style="text-align: left;"><i style="color: red; font-size: large;"><br /></i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i style="color: red;"><span style="font-size: large;">Toys Trains and Other Old Stuff</span></i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i style="color: red;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i style="color: red;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Recently, I've been looking at the comments on all of my blog post. I saw a comment from</span></i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i style="color: red;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Toys Trains and Other Old Stuff from about 10 years ago, and I decided to</span></i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i style="color: red;"><span style="font-size: medium;">write to them. </span></i><i style="color: red;"><span style="font-size: medium;">I decided to ask </span></i><i style="color: red;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><i><span style="font-size: medium;">Mr. Wylie Stivers if I might write a blog post about his fine company and his merchandise. </span></i>Mr. Wylie Stivers and his Wife Christine are the owners of this "special" company. </span></i><i style="color: red;"><span style="font-size: medium;">As you can read from the name of his company </span></i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i style="color: red;"><span style="font-size: medium;">(Toys Trains and Other Old Stuff) his </span></i><i style="color: red;"><span style="font-size: medium;">unique specialty business is selling mostly trains.</span></i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i style="color: red;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Currently (on Liveauctioneers), there is a large collection of Matchbox toys up for auction.</span></i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i style="color: red;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i style="color: red;"><span style="font-size: medium;">The images below are from an auction that occurred </span></i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i style="color: red;"><span style="font-size: medium;">on Liveauctioneers.com on March 2, 2024</span></i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiv16mZc700GPcF5rvZFyqjPqd_iMbiSn12eM57N_027HWOR26umhPxU1m8ggrft0kL7RORd5pjrsfSBK-AfAdeM_JPvdoIVyTsJ3HP6FRW72HLEOI97rpAWNU4YgsRhKyQwSIHzH0g0GW6BvmEkzF12otdY_zl3wOlUHCW3eV1w1sfVv-Ip6wBanCkftM/s578/Company%20Logo.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="291" data-original-width="578" height="161" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiv16mZc700GPcF5rvZFyqjPqd_iMbiSn12eM57N_027HWOR26umhPxU1m8ggrft0kL7RORd5pjrsfSBK-AfAdeM_JPvdoIVyTsJ3HP6FRW72HLEOI97rpAWNU4YgsRhKyQwSIHzH0g0GW6BvmEkzF12otdY_zl3wOlUHCW3eV1w1sfVv-Ip6wBanCkftM/s320/Company%20Logo.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.toystrainsandotheroldstuff.com/"><i><span style="color: #6fa8dc; font-size: medium;">Please click here to visit this interesting website</span></i></a></div><h2 style="clear: both; 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margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3869" data-original-width="1616" height="576" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg72MzgNz7p_MKUVWjX7RAZijM04Y8acuJAnytsRO6CQtm2sCrveMeJPfwhMTiapmKo9vY4SNBoy1Cp57TdrlQutI_AXgrM7bKE2tTtYtPpa88yd_iKApsw8pqRRv6TK_KrG5A4WkklzQ0ceLxoCQ6XOQQtu2a8_Ok3KdpF_iCHmd-YtJrvam2ZFpAwxWs/w268-h576/Finished%20Composite-5.jpg" width="268" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><i style="color: red;"><span style="font-size: medium;">It's amazing that trains in today's post are still available </span></i><i style="color: red;"><span style="font-size: medium;">like all great collectibles. </span></i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><i style="color: red;"><span style="font-size: medium;">What I'd like to check is whether or not there are still transformers and controls for these trains that ran on electricity. I haven't seen any on Liveauctioneers, but I'm sure they are still around.</span></i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><i style="color: red;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><i style="color: red;"><span style="font-size: medium;">So thanks for coming by,</span></i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><i style="color: red;"><span style="font-size: medium;">and as always,</span></i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><i style="color: red;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Have a great part of the day or night,</span></i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><i style="color: red;"><span style="font-size: medium;">wherever you may be.</span></i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><i style="color: red;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><i style="color: red;"><span style="font-size: medium;">My name is (Mr.) Stacey Bindman</span></i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><i style="color: red;"><span style="font-size: medium;">and I can always be reached at</span></i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><i style="color: red;"><span style="font-size: medium;">toysearcher@gmail.com</span></i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><i style="color: red;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><i style="color: red;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><i style="color: red;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><br /></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><br /><br /></div><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><i style="color: red;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /><br /></div><br /><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /> </span></i></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: red; font-size: medium;"><i><br /></i></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: red; font-size: medium;"><i><br /></i></span></div>toysearcherhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10535892434954886185noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8159558359997817544.post-16267288724173105512024-03-11T13:09:00.000-07:002024-03-12T04:21:10.870-07:00<div style="text-align: left;"> <span style="color: red; font-size: medium;"><i>Monday, March 11, 2024</i></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: red; font-size: medium;"><i>0° C / 32° F</i></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: red; font-size: medium;"><i>Clear skies and mild winds</i></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: red; font-size: medium;"><i><br /></i></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><i><span style="color: red;">A Revisit to an Excellent e</span><span style="color: #2b00fe;">b</span><span style="color: #ffa400;">a</span><span style="color: #04ff00;">y</span><span style="color: red;"> Seller</span></i></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><i><span style="color: red;"><br /></span></i></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: red; font-size: medium;"><i>If you follow my blog, you'll know that I've recently been revisiting the many kind people </i></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: red; font-size: medium;"><i>and companies who have granted me permission to use their photos, and write about them or their companies.</i></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: red; font-size: medium;"><i><br /></i></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; color: red; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiPRu93Pw9bBeEylfhk8FsUv8yZ8qqDuis1CNVkH_YxZ8XNPaqHDutMStFo0C8ccld49GEzX0t7nPlis0_4JMOOdkfbCMwcPNHinnMa9o0T12Vc19Pre7JBXpNogPl5asYB8wte9FEt72NE4OT_bALxn0n8uRSNXx0lsbFqyPo0W5aEPV8CMMIDfqP3kM8/s600/Vintage%20Toymasters-LOGO.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="163" data-original-width="600" height="87" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiPRu93Pw9bBeEylfhk8FsUv8yZ8qqDuis1CNVkH_YxZ8XNPaqHDutMStFo0C8ccld49GEzX0t7nPlis0_4JMOOdkfbCMwcPNHinnMa9o0T12Vc19Pre7JBXpNogPl5asYB8wte9FEt72NE4OT_bALxn0n8uRSNXx0lsbFqyPo0W5aEPV8CMMIDfqP3kM8/s320/Vintage%20Toymasters-LOGO.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; color: red; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.ebay.com/str/vintagetoymasters"><i><b><span style="color: #e69138;">Please click here to visit this fine seller of old toys</span></b></i></a><br /></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; color: red; text-align: center;"><i>I had to go back in time and check just when my first blog post was about </i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><i><b><span style="color: #e69138;">Masters Vintage Toys, Inc. </span></b></i><i><span style="color: red;">As it turned out, my first blog post for </span></i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><i><span style="color: red;">Masters Vintage Toys, Inc. was </span></i><i><span style="color: red;">on November 2, 2016. </span></i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><i><span style="color: red;"><br /></span></i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><i><span style="color: red;">Wow, how the time flies, </span></i><i><span style="color: red;">as the expression goes. </span></i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><i><span style="color: red;"><br /></span></i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><i><span style="color: red;">When I visited </span></i><span style="color: red; font-style: italic;">e</span><span style="color: #2b00fe; font-style: italic;">b</span><span style="color: #ffa400; font-style: italic;">a</span><span style="color: #04ff00; font-style: italic;">y</span><span><i style="color: red;"> yesterday, I looked for a toy from </i><span style="color: #999999;">Masters Vintage Toys,</span></span><span style="color: red;"> </span><span><span style="color: #999999;">Inc.</span><i style="color: red;"> </i></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span><i style="color: red;">that would be "special" </i></span><span style="color: red; font-style: italic;">for this post. I found an interesting </span><span style="color: #3d85c6;"><i><b>Ingap</b></i></span><span style="color: red; font-style: italic;"> toy.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><i><span style="color: red;"><br /></span></i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><i><span style="color: red;">The toy is an INGAP 1937 Fiat Tin </span></i><i><span style="color: red;">Windup Streamline Coupe. </span></i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><i><span style="color: red;">I haven't seen many Ingap toys </span></i><i><span style="color: red;">over the years that I have been blogging.</span></i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><i><span style="color: red;"><br /></span></i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><i><span style="color: red;">The INGAP name is an acronym ( an abbreviation of letters representing words).</span></i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><i><span style="color: red;">In the case of INGAP, the letters represent the </span></i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><i><span style="color: red;">"Industrial National Automatic Toys Padova", an Italian toy company</span></i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><i><span style="color: red;">that was founded by Mr.Tullio Anselmi. The company started in 1919, </span></i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><i><span style="color: red;">and sadly, </span></i><i><span style="color: red;">closed down in 1972. At it'st peak, the company employed 600 people (1938).*</span></i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><i><span style="color: red;"><br /></span></i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><i><span style="color: red;">* I found this information through a Google search, and paraphrased </span></i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><i><span style="color: red;">(wrote in my own words) the above paragraph.</span></i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><i><span style="color: red;"><br /></span></i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEim-AAj53MrF4Yng30W3xsVVBRZOtqrqjKlRAjcjBPN0cooJpjE7CEm-oGjEg0Ca3Cyknbyus7mV7h9HAVqxlfYC5JuMz5Cwy5ECyL3g8I3s6aIBFr4eu8UXQ2paqGtsS6zy6EqvyUPy7_Ill7L0mE9_BTSzQeeQZM0yitJkAD3VjVtb5B98KA-7bulkE8" style="margin-left: 1em; 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margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="872" data-original-width="1759" height="159" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjgfwuq8aec4DdCw6npgwLT3CbAmM1xqLo-U8gfapabZUYG4QwFdJVLXDCMPa43WIx2cgsh2KE60nOPFDKNVsSbilniNt99v_gd5w9eOgYp8z_Bi50tEoNpABLsLuSpZYIw7ZUlEEwVgxUj8jyJhmRBNbWNXygGd0XcO1r6nd5cseigtVKvvUc6yrlM0vU" width="320" /></a></div><br /><span style="color: red;"><i>This toy happens to be about 9" (22.86 cm ) long</i></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: red;"><i><br /></i></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: red;"><i>I'll be returning to this excellent toy seller in the future, to find out what other fine toys that I can write about. When I went there recently, he had lots of toys to sell! </i></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: red;"><i>Bravo! </i></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: red;"><i>So that's it for today.</i></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: red;"><i>Thanks for dropping by, and as always,</i></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: red;"><i>have a great part of the day or night, </i></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: red;"><i>wherever you may be.</i></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: red;"><i><br /></i></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: red;"><i>My name is (Mr.) Stacey Bindman,</i></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: red;"><i>and I can always be contacted at </i></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: red;"><i>toysearcher@gmail.com</i></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><br /></div><br /><br /><br /></div><br /><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div></span><span style="font-size: medium;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; color: red; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; color: red; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><i style="color: red;"><br /></i></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: red; font-size: medium;"><i><br /></i></span></div>toysearcherhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10535892434954886185noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8159558359997817544.post-32361046908966201012024-03-03T09:42:00.000-08:002024-03-03T14:21:07.047-08:00<div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: red; font-size: medium;"><i>Thursday, March 7, 2024</i></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: red; font-size: medium;"><i>Cloud with Sun</i></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: red; font-size: medium;"><i>-6° C / 21.2° F</i></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: red; font-size: medium;"><i><br /></i></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span><i><div class="separator" style="clear: both; color: red; font-size: x-large; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEipAXLvPlVfbbBI5eRmmYVqnW3QQZC3lznE1apFjJpx2pSgu7FGxYsMoovhyiu6iXB9zEAU8dNfXd_4UXbKA2BfCXOiYQE7vIGXQFJHDJYQI6cd7qsQcVd3AlIzOJxr_gclBsoYC0WVZV_5AE41ctDTVhhfafuKzQJSvdP6ehCaLiXWBRNoQuoC66X4c18" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="165" data-original-width="751" height="70" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEipAXLvPlVfbbBI5eRmmYVqnW3QQZC3lznE1apFjJpx2pSgu7FGxYsMoovhyiu6iXB9zEAU8dNfXd_4UXbKA2BfCXOiYQE7vIGXQFJHDJYQI6cd7qsQcVd3AlIzOJxr_gclBsoYC0WVZV_5AE41ctDTVhhfafuKzQJSvdP6ehCaLiXWBRNoQuoC66X4c18" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; color: red; font-size: x-large; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.liveauctioneers.com/catalog/319568_winter-curiosities-toys-and-advertising/"><span style="color: #ffa400; font-size: medium;">Please click here to visit this fine American Auctioneer on LiveAuctioneers</span></a><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; color: red; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; color: red; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">This is my second post about Marz Auctions. I had "discovered" this fine company on LiveAuctioneers, and asked for permission to write about them and their fine toys. What attracted me to their January 16, 2024 auction were several qualities. The first was the fine photography, followed by very interesting toys that I normally don't see at auctions. Finally, their written descriptions were well-written and provided nice information for readers.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; color: red; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; color: red; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhCabTsulYds1HLBonQ94Cy8Wa2oj63njipd0z24acnuGXD76-4xNfQ6Fo0FJx0VUBXrQJwqwlHQY-GEfed3bo0DG9u9ZQWS5svPJcW0PbnyrsNSK_Ms5p7Aey56brKY6MsU5CKwiLK8MHcry2kPqvZGtTFLiuk-w6DMWxUJSl2up0hDGAH2BHHTYRlGO4/s1732/Marz-A-03-13-24-1.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1361" data-original-width="1732" height="251" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhCabTsulYds1HLBonQ94Cy8Wa2oj63njipd0z24acnuGXD76-4xNfQ6Fo0FJx0VUBXrQJwqwlHQY-GEfed3bo0DG9u9ZQWS5svPJcW0PbnyrsNSK_Ms5p7Aey56brKY6MsU5CKwiLK8MHcry2kPqvZGtTFLiuk-w6DMWxUJSl2up0hDGAH2BHHTYRlGO4/s320/Marz-A-03-13-24-1.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Above: </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">"Large Hubley Toys Cast Iron Coupe (Lancaster, Pennsylvania)</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Great mid-1920's bug-eyed coupe. Difficult to find a very large Hubley Coupe, </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">circa 1925. Toy appears to be all original, with great nickel-plated driver</span></div><br /><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; color: red; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh59Pp6XVgtLg87yGBS4c8fKFUoZM7gj7qsvQ5XYesW8f5jws-9nD_p-XK0oBg_Z91pDMI14lC920o79XaUMFj2BXJxXtyvS23LJsk2F6mgCKniAOd4hNqBVkBPnvag_YmDeBYniDIV6Pdkc4fEhJfVUBuABM_UAVjjLdSEVHxCBOMjQAaeVQYmbWMrCVg/s4087/Marz-A-03-13-24-2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4087" data-original-width="2354" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh59Pp6XVgtLg87yGBS4c8fKFUoZM7gj7qsvQ5XYesW8f5jws-9nD_p-XK0oBg_Z91pDMI14lC920o79XaUMFj2BXJxXtyvS23LJsk2F6mgCKniAOd4hNqBVkBPnvag_YmDeBYniDIV6Pdkc4fEhJfVUBuABM_UAVjjLdSEVHxCBOMjQAaeVQYmbWMrCVg/w368-h640/Marz-A-03-13-24-2.jpg" width="368" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; color: red; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; color: red; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Above: </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; color: red; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">"One of a kind item! This is a custom wood hand-made Jeep and driver that</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; color: red; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">was made by someone in Belgium. It was given to a sergeant just after the war</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; color: red; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">was over and Europe was liberated. It has a motor in front, but does not work.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; color: red; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">The figure is also hand-carved. The Jeep measures 15" long x 6.5" wide. The windshield folds down. The chassis is not attached to the frame. The driver is 9" tall and </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; color: red; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">semi-poseable. A great face smoking a cigar. The canvas roof can also be closed.</span></div><br /></i></span></div><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: red; font-size: medium;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: red; font-size: medium;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjTzs9pE0z5kMWtgnzaBnx38INpqql6rZ9EwDV6lOXYUTIVp-v6OA1dYnL7AHe4_FMeEOxSve-9BbFWT3jPrUCVLXMts9U7S3X-kzA2MfOzOZO3e2ZP4yTcBxyqo9M_C1ubD9PZPVPF1m-WG59j4LCcsRClkMJsoatYhAOm_Qlz_qu2bjYvdEBfyxDl02s/s1296/Marz-A-03-13-24-3.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1108" data-original-width="1296" height="274" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjTzs9pE0z5kMWtgnzaBnx38INpqql6rZ9EwDV6lOXYUTIVp-v6OA1dYnL7AHe4_FMeEOxSve-9BbFWT3jPrUCVLXMts9U7S3X-kzA2MfOzOZO3e2ZP4yTcBxyqo9M_C1ubD9PZPVPF1m-WG59j4LCcsRClkMJsoatYhAOm_Qlz_qu2bjYvdEBfyxDl02s/s320/Marz-A-03-13-24-3.jpg" width="320" /></a></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: red; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: red; font-size: medium;"><i>Above:</i></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: red; font-size: medium;"><i>"Rare Hubley Cast Iron Airflow Coupe circa 1935</i></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: red; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: red; font-size: medium;"><i>This car was restored, and is very difficult to find Hubley cast iron Chrysler </i></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: red; font-size: medium;"><i>with light detailing (no lever present). Toy comes restored in proper blue and silver, with original tires. </i><i>Approx. 6.25" long</i></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: red; font-size: medium;"><i><br /></i></span></div><span style="color: red; font-size: medium;"><br /><i><br /></i></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi4E6uLxoyb29pGjlXqosr3D-OKJWK4Gbonb6iADrRoq5VfccAwpTH7ke0A0MDTtItnMr51nt0IDiUgllBtZOmx3y1d3Z2pqz92K2YVTl0U1i26CNbBOJDCfthW_HONuxQmV2Vkzp0o0e1nn3nc_tex7Iyq9vaCiD4UZgkumoqEPJq7ZSM5cgLQJ36TiRI/s2040/Marz-A-03-13-24-4.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1450" data-original-width="2040" height="227" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi4E6uLxoyb29pGjlXqosr3D-OKJWK4Gbonb6iADrRoq5VfccAwpTH7ke0A0MDTtItnMr51nt0IDiUgllBtZOmx3y1d3Z2pqz92K2YVTl0U1i26CNbBOJDCfthW_HONuxQmV2Vkzp0o0e1nn3nc_tex7Iyq9vaCiD4UZgkumoqEPJq7ZSM5cgLQJ36TiRI/s320/Marz-A-03-13-24-4.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: red; font-size: medium;"><i>Above:</i></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: red; font-size: medium;"><i>Lehmann Coach with Driver toy Tin Litho (Lithographed)</i></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: red; font-size: medium;"><i>Has some wear. Wind-up does not work</i></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: red; font-size: medium;"><i>Length: 5"</i></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: red; font-size: medium;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhv23JF4aiU7H2tlAqkiykA5_JgZT-NtcLiFULIftgHW-PCD9T6oErPYDzgUgupZloAuTvLfBUfHAcqEm025txfQg5OsgC9yApYGkixU8QsvoOiifVqtmtFGqGcutX_KJTNrC-639JTyxJ5zL54E3wblZ9e1Yr2jLX5CVsg1uhh27EtfqiPGuJ89LfoeJ8/s1725/Marz-A-03-13-24-5.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1725" data-original-width="1630" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhv23JF4aiU7H2tlAqkiykA5_JgZT-NtcLiFULIftgHW-PCD9T6oErPYDzgUgupZloAuTvLfBUfHAcqEm025txfQg5OsgC9yApYGkixU8QsvoOiifVqtmtFGqGcutX_KJTNrC-639JTyxJ5zL54E3wblZ9e1Yr2jLX5CVsg1uhh27EtfqiPGuJ89LfoeJ8/s320/Marz-A-03-13-24-5.jpg" width="302" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><i>Above:</i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><i>1950's Unique Art Lil' Abner Band Tin Litho </i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><i>Wind-up Works </i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><i><br /></i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgLf_xab7PvOFjDL_5jvh5InasINiynOc9mTviA-6t6eFMxskoTBUe6YshKdXv4wIAN6G1BNxbDddbvjGeCtxzZW7r8GW8OoId37VAudpBukfjRHWKeNUUNDKzM9wlDyFNKOQygtShMO6eqJULer-EUDwBg6Z4A9N-_2dSE81pomazJ43ai9vxEU6kMkjE/s2633/Marz-A-03-13-24-6.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2134" data-original-width="2633" height="259" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgLf_xab7PvOFjDL_5jvh5InasINiynOc9mTviA-6t6eFMxskoTBUe6YshKdXv4wIAN6G1BNxbDddbvjGeCtxzZW7r8GW8OoId37VAudpBukfjRHWKeNUUNDKzM9wlDyFNKOQygtShMO6eqJULer-EUDwBg6Z4A9N-_2dSE81pomazJ43ai9vxEU6kMkjE/s320/Marz-A-03-13-24-6.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><i><br /></i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><i>Above:</i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><i>"Outstanding Lead Football Team,</i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><i>Figures in Blue and red, Barclay Style.</i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><i>Outstanding and early lead football teams ready for auction. Toys likely made of lead, </i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><i>in the Barclay solder style. Sixteen hollow cast figures hand painted we have never seen another set. Figures approximately 3" when standing."</i></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj75ryfJ9GqnauXjm-EeI-PUZVdRFFOkd50hjq-jaY-ZvTAr5LmUEYyBqbE_doXnTyTPsHEr6_FupiZQPn9WhIUNtUJfqL82CTeEArMTP6k0xxHRLG9dWlC3g5wV5Bv28ftI9Fw84JnidhF7PYeh0W8VTslq-a3fR-SBDrdzuxe7dtveAFLS13D7uWmcrc/s1358/Marz-A-03-13-24-7.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="915" data-original-width="1358" height="216" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj75ryfJ9GqnauXjm-EeI-PUZVdRFFOkd50hjq-jaY-ZvTAr5LmUEYyBqbE_doXnTyTPsHEr6_FupiZQPn9WhIUNtUJfqL82CTeEArMTP6k0xxHRLG9dWlC3g5wV5Bv28ftI9Fw84JnidhF7PYeh0W8VTslq-a3fR-SBDrdzuxe7dtveAFLS13D7uWmcrc/s320/Marz-A-03-13-24-7.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><i>Above:</i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><i>Great group of vintage cap guns in display case. </i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><i>All are in good working order. </i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><i>Kilgore, Gene Autry, and more.</i></div><i><br /></i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjpMsMMW4FsePv07WdMz1ILVBs3XQ6ZHTPEivSm8-GR__zRrtL0eDukB5G-puCEXyhxZj4XJZRiMsv3fpRG-oumaJjwVPN7IFVkYh_dg_4RGH2wsVm-xy7bmBD_ZfJeYyf5olXdjmAPV37N0-7J7pqVDFZTO5Cn7TKyDJptzWTQmAuhJXMmj0Y8iONsGDg/s3077/Marz-A-03-13-24-8.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1809" data-original-width="3077" height="188" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjpMsMMW4FsePv07WdMz1ILVBs3XQ6ZHTPEivSm8-GR__zRrtL0eDukB5G-puCEXyhxZj4XJZRiMsv3fpRG-oumaJjwVPN7IFVkYh_dg_4RGH2wsVm-xy7bmBD_ZfJeYyf5olXdjmAPV37N0-7J7pqVDFZTO5Cn7TKyDJptzWTQmAuhJXMmj0Y8iONsGDg/s320/Marz-A-03-13-24-8.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><i>Above:</i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><i>"Antique European hand carved puppet dating to the early 1900's.This gentleman</i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><i>features a wood head with detailed carving and hand painting of his beard, hair, and facial features. He is dressed in a hand sewn costume that includes a large attached cape. Elaborage clothing. with hat features metal sequins and metallic rickrack trim throughout.</i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><i>Unique, as the large waistband piece is actually pieces of a zipper. Costume of silk, cotton, and velvet. The wooden head piece is approximately 6 1/2" (16.51 cm) in length and </i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><i>3 3/4" (9.525 cm) in width. The length of the entire doll is 21"(53.34 centimetres) </i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><i>(There is a much more expanded description on LiveAuctioneers) </i></div><i><br /></i></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEha8z_9O6bY9MJ49Zh1MR68tAehaGs5nv1C1zNZ59O7kb9HwBSwiNUDhLTHAeUSqaYNI37VbHY4QG980pnq1UlXvggcSnSadCSSuQGacRBP1pxckc_0K351oL7ixnbzgSIodxK42KaAyKH04O69W5zrhwZqBIsBz2IPT_mmbi5zYrCdYp6IhXxmm8jok2Y/s2711/Marz-A-03-13-24-9.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2711" data-original-width="2109" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEha8z_9O6bY9MJ49Zh1MR68tAehaGs5nv1C1zNZ59O7kb9HwBSwiNUDhLTHAeUSqaYNI37VbHY4QG980pnq1UlXvggcSnSadCSSuQGacRBP1pxckc_0K351oL7ixnbzgSIodxK42KaAyKH04O69W5zrhwZqBIsBz2IPT_mmbi5zYrCdYp6IhXxmm8jok2Y/s320/Marz-A-03-13-24-9.jpg" width="249" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: red; font-size: medium;"><i>Above:</i></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: red; font-size: medium;"><i>" Antique Unusual Native American Walnut Head Beaded Leather Horse Riding Doll"</i></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: red; font-size: medium;"><i>This is a most unusual and display worthy piece. The doll appears to be made of stuffed leather, cloth, and hair. The trim of the horse blanket and the rider's clothes are beautifully beaded. The head of the rider is a front-facing walnut. The piece is definitely a quality item for display, and it comes with a Glass windowed Display Box. The. doll was acquired from an estate sale of an avid Native American Collector, with most of the pieces dating from the early 1800s-1920s. We purchased a large selection of the collection, as can be seen on our currently listed Hudson Bay Copper Trade Bead Pendants, dolls, and fetishes. </i></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: red; font-size: medium;"><i>Measures approximately 9 1/2" tall x 8 1/2" Long (24.13 cm x 21.59 cm). </i></span></div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: red; font-size: medium;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi64kWdKcV9q4n2uX4QX4u68uvGXGUB-mf0Y15tVoRoMsWWN7zEh-KZwP3d8xCNmZyyfQX5IP-P2c2J9TxQHbsPblTaweCJkW9omMQu8fslJhDDdVUeVY64XTy3uf-sILmLUjj6G9pJ11QyUL0Clzn2RgBq1IrZVbc8hNyYLailvPsQmHwpT4Kvl7iEv6I/s1771/Marz-A-03-13-24-10.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1657" data-original-width="1771" height="299" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi64kWdKcV9q4n2uX4QX4u68uvGXGUB-mf0Y15tVoRoMsWWN7zEh-KZwP3d8xCNmZyyfQX5IP-P2c2J9TxQHbsPblTaweCJkW9omMQu8fslJhDDdVUeVY64XTy3uf-sILmLUjj6G9pJ11QyUL0Clzn2RgBq1IrZVbc8hNyYLailvPsQmHwpT4Kvl7iEv6I/s320/Marz-A-03-13-24-10.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><i>Above:</i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><i>Rare North and Judd Model A Coupe cast iron in red. </i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><i>Toy is expertly restored with nice nickel wheels and unusual cast in rear trunk/</i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><i>These are extremely difficult to find in any condition.</i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><i>Length: 4" long (10.16 cm)</i></div><br /><i>So that's it for today.</i></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: red; font-size: medium;"><i>If you have any questions or would be interested in having a post written for you, please feel free to write me.</i></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: red; font-size: medium;"><i><br /></i></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><i style="color: red; font-size: large;">As always, enjoy a great part of the day or night, wherever you may be.</i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><i style="color: red; font-size: large;"><br /></i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><i style="color: red; font-size: large;">(Mr.) Stacey Bindman</i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><i style="color: red; font-size: large;"><br /></i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><i style="color: red; font-size: large;"> I can always be reached at toysearcher@gmail.com</i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><i style="color: red; font-size: large;"><br /></i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><i style="color: red; font-size: large;"><br /></i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: red; font-size: medium;"><i><br /></i></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><p></p>toysearcherhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10535892434954886185noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8159558359997817544.post-47981305146394324782024-02-25T13:33:00.000-08:002024-03-07T11:10:45.575-08:00A Quartet of Minibrix Fans build an Exceptional Website<div style="text-align: left;"><i><span style="color: #ffa400; font-size: medium;">March 5, 2024</span></i></div><div style="text-align: left;"><i><span style="color: #ffa400; font-size: medium;">10° C / 50° F</span></i></div><div style="text-align: left;"><i><span style="color: #ffa400; font-size: medium;">Clouded skies </span></i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #ffa400; font-size: large;"><i>A Quartet of Minibrix Fans </i></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i style="color: #ffa400;"><span style="font-size: large;">Build an Exceptional Website</span></i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i style="color: #ffa400;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i style="color: #ffa400;"><span style="font-size: large;">or</span></i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i style="color: #ffa400;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i style="color: #ffa400;"><span style="font-size: large;">(The Guardians of the History of a</span></i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i style="color: #ffa400;"><span style="font-size: large;">famous construction set company - Minibrix)</span></i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><i style="color: #ffa400; font-size: large;"> I would like to thank Mr. Martin James, who has been a member of this most-exceptional website. I has asked him (as usual) to proof-read this post before I published it. I had made a few errors in misreading what was written on his website, and he helped me several times to write the introduction below,Most of the narrative was written by Martin, and I am very grateful for his patience and my many e-mails to him.</i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><i style="color: #ffa400; font-size: large;"><br /></i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><i style="color: #ffa400; font-size: large;"><br /></i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><i style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #ffa400;">The story begins with my having discovered a fantastic Meccano website. You can visit that post on my blog. It's the one before today's post. Once I had found the Meccano website, I had another great idea. As a child, my parents always bought me toys, and another great set of toys was Minibrix. I decided to search for a Minibrix website, and lo and behold, I found one. I couldn't believe that I was able to discover 2 such great sites of toys that were invented so long ago (1900's).</span></i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><i style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #ffa400;"><br /></span></i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><i style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #ffa400;">As I usually do, after I finished this post, I asked the person whom I had contacted (Martin James) to proofread what I had wrote. He helped me a lot, as I had incorrectly written some of this great story and erred. He wrote back to me, and gave me the superlatively-written material below.</span></i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><i style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #ffa400;"><br /></span></i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><i style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #ffa400;">At this point, I decided to ask Martin if I might scuttle my writing, and use his excellent narrative.</span></i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #ffa400; font-size: medium;"><i>The screen-captures below are just a few of the many images on this exceptional website. The website is not just for Minibrix hobbyists, but for anyone who wants to read about these great erector sets and what a "very-exceptional website" is!</i></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #ffa400; font-size: medium;"><i><br /></i></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="color: red; font-size: large;">"The History of the Minibrix Website - </span><span style="color: red; font-size: x-large;">Martin James, March 2024"</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="color: red; font-size: x-large;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="color: red;"><u><span style="font-size: medium;"><b>The People</b></span></u></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="color: red;"><u><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></u></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="color: red; font-size: medium;">There are 4 people who have collectively captured, preserved, and publicised (British spelling) the history of the Minibrix company. <b>Malcolm Hanson</b> was the centre of the Minibrix universe, and the other three of us were independent friend of Malcolm at different points in time, many years apart. It was Malcolm who initially captured and wrote up the history.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="color: red; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="color: red; font-size: medium;"><b>Richard Smallbone </b>was a Minibrix collector living in Canada, and had read the history Malcolm had published. He gave Malcolm the idea of transferring the information to a web site that Richard had access to.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="color: red; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="color: red; font-size: medium;">Back in 1984, Malcolm founded, then ran for many years, the South West Meccano Club in Bristol, England. Although Meccano was his. biggest passion, Minibrix ran a close second. Another long-standing member of that club, <b>Tony Parmee</b>, was also a big collector of Minibrix as a side-line. Malcolm and Tony probably owned the two largest collections of surviving Minibrix in the world, and Malcolm asked Tony to write something to add to the new website.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="color: red; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="color: red; font-size: medium;">I (<b>Martin James</b>) only got involved when the original website died in 2012, and I tracked Malcolm down to see if. anybody objected to my mounting the rescue mission, and as a spin-off, attaching my own independent web resource for Virtual Minibrix.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="color: red; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="color: red; font-size: medium;">So in summary, Malcolm. wrote the history, Richard published it, Tony reminisced about it, and I rescued it.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="color: red; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="color: red; font-size: medium;"><u><b>The Website</b></u></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="color: red; font-size: medium;"><u><b><br /></b></u></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="color: red; font-size: medium;">The story starts in the summer of 1990, when Malcolm Hanson caught a small news item that the ITS Rubber company were about to close down and demolish their Petersfield factory. ITS was the parent company for the Premo Rubber Company, maker of Minibrix, who had dissolved in 1976, returning the factory to making rubber footwear for ITS. Malcolm rushed over to Petersfield (on his motorbike!) to see if there were any mementos, documents, or memories from the Minibrix years that could be salvaged before everything was finally lost. The skeleton staff left there to supervise the death throes welcolmed welcomed him with open arms, and set him up with an old lady who had been the company secretary almost since its beginning. For most of the day, she reminisced, and Malcolm filled a notebook with everything he could capture. A couple of years later (1992), Malcolm self-published the contents of that notebook as a slim volume that was distributed through various clubs and societies with an interest in construction toys. (Still available by mail-order from Meccano World: </span><span style="color: #2b00fe; font-size: medium;">https://www.hsomerville.com/mworder/</span><span style="color: red; font-size: medium;"> <i>DF1 Minibrix - The Rubber Building Toy £8.30)</i></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="color: red; font-size: medium;"><i><br /></i></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="color: red; font-size: medium;">In 2003, Malcolm was approached by a fellow Minibrix enthusiast in Canada, Fred Smallbone, who had seen the booklet, and wondered if Malcolm would like it being putting up as a web site to reach a more global audience. Fred has a small free web space allocation that came with his Internet service (with Sympatico.ca, now Bell canada) and wanted an excuse to use it for something. So between the two of them - Fred doing the coding and Malcolm providing the content - the Minibrix web site was born. Fred bought the domain name </span><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #2b00fe; text-decoration-line: underline;">minibrix.com</span><span style="color: red;"> to use as a landing address, with the site itself all being hosted at </span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="color: #2b00fe; font-size: medium;"><u>minibrix.sympatico.ca.</u></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="color: #2b00fe; font-size: medium;"><u><br /></u></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="color: red; font-size: medium;">Meanwhile, I had my own Minibrix-themed web site for Virtual Minibrix, so I added a link to the physical Minibrix site from my main page (since Google at least knew that one was there) and also got some old links adjusted from places like Wikipedia. At least it was semi-visible again.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="color: red; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="color: red; font-size: medium;">I has a strong hunch that the site hosted by </span><span style="font-size: medium;"><u style="color: #2b00fe;">sympatico.ca</u><span style="color: red;"> was now living on borrowed time. Recognizing that this was an important and unique resource, I grabbed a copy of the site contents, ready for the inevitable. In 2010, two thing happened. First the name </span><span style="color: #2b00fe;"><u>minibrix-com</u></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="color: red; font-size: medium;">went off the air, meaning that whomever it was had finally stopped renewing it. Then, a little later in the year, the physical site was finally taken down. As a temporary measure, I put up th epreserved site as a sub-site on mine, so it still had a presence. I then set a calendar reminder for two years and a day after the </span><span style="font-size: medium;"><u style="color: #2b00fe;">minibrix.com</u><span style="color: red;"> domain had been deleted, and waited out the 2 years it takes for a deleted domain name to become publically available for sale again.</span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: red;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: red;">In 2012, on the day the domain name was released, I bought it, bought some hosting space, and put the Minibrix site back on a real home with its real name. I turned Minibrix on the relationship with Virtual Minibrix around, and added the Virtual site as a child to Minibrix on the same server. The next step was to track down Malcolm, let him know what I had done, make sure I hadn't trodden on anybody's toes during the rescue mission, and generally decide whether there were any next steps. Malcolm was delighted, as at last, it was possible to make some updates. The first thing we did was set up an associated photo gallery, to house the many photos he had of his collection and of exhibitions.</span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: red;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: red;">In the summer of 2017, Malcolm started to make some updates to the sight, and incorporate some of his original notes that had not yet been used. We had a quick look at what was involved, then Malcolm went away to put together the material. we had arranged to have a catch-up call in a couple of weeks, but just 4 days later, he rang again with some devastating news. He had been been in for a routine hospital check-up and had just got the results. It appeared he had developed a particularly aggressive cancer, and the doctors gave him just 2 months to live. The site updates never happened, and now probably never will. Much of the timeframe of two months (which turned out to be a vert accurate prediction) was devoted to making arrangements to dismantle, package, and ultimately dispose of his vast collection of Minibrix, and his even vaster collection of Meccano.</span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: red;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: red;">Sadly, Malcolm died late that summer. Since then, the only thing that has happened to </span><u style="color: #2b00fe;">minibrix-com</u><span style="color: red;"> is that I have rewritten the underlying code to use much more up-to-date technology - things like supporting lots of different device types and screen shapes, and beefing up security. But the content remains as it always was: Malcolm's hastily-captured notes from that long summer of 1990.</span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: red;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: red;">Regards,</span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: red;">Martin</span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: red;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: red;">As you can see, this exceptional group of men worked very hard to keep the Minibrix company and its history "alive" and inform readers about one of the great toy consgtruction companies that once existed.</span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: red;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: red;">I'm very fortunate to have found Martin and learned about Minibrix</span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: red;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #ffa400;"><i>Whoa! What a story. </i></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #ffa400;"><i>I'm most-certainly elated that Martin accepted my request to write the </i></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #ffa400;"><i>narrative and history of for this blog post. </i></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #ffa400;"><i><br /></i></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><i><a href="https://www.minibrix.com/"><span style="color: #2b00fe; font-size: medium;">Please click here to visit one of the best toy websites on the Internet</span></a><br /></i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiaGYi-CdqfApkX0lVXTCY8-fVhhnsSQ3UhGZdzR8sd_ihb0CQBH3CFppK3fa9WULkqT0rJZbhSFFZ_I9AXvK662eTlMko7cmmYvuCcyg4hviAKkpsKq7aun2iyWznbk8j1praN1DLEOTTFHn9sOy8MOiV-Uv4wLlF3BP3VBCvQO5syXeYCeMpWvUNVPRo/s1073/Minibrix-3.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1073" data-original-width="1072" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiaGYi-CdqfApkX0lVXTCY8-fVhhnsSQ3UhGZdzR8sd_ihb0CQBH3CFppK3fa9WULkqT0rJZbhSFFZ_I9AXvK662eTlMko7cmmYvuCcyg4hviAKkpsKq7aun2iyWznbk8j1praN1DLEOTTFHn9sOy8MOiV-Uv4wLlF3BP3VBCvQO5syXeYCeMpWvUNVPRo/s320/Minibrix-3.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhmGvN7CFQJlpj-QOvDHDVBB6ustZmIyL3pfpHQFq2_6G5_T_K_JXAODnMRvb5X4LBfFH5eousP9xLjM-DkQCfssR3CEBJRCw2jN0BHe_vZNHU4r5EYNC-MNn-2uhJawDFqxg2kTxUZBOMbuS42Ww7kdEXGUTiErkp1u9jx9o-4dFTyXJvxwqYmzmon8ew/s1312/Minibrix-4.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1312" data-original-width="924" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhmGvN7CFQJlpj-QOvDHDVBB6ustZmIyL3pfpHQFq2_6G5_T_K_JXAODnMRvb5X4LBfFH5eousP9xLjM-DkQCfssR3CEBJRCw2jN0BHe_vZNHU4r5EYNC-MNn-2uhJawDFqxg2kTxUZBOMbuS42Ww7kdEXGUTiErkp1u9jx9o-4dFTyXJvxwqYmzmon8ew/s320/Minibrix-4.jpg" width="225" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #ffa400; font-size: medium;"><i>Below: The standard yellow box that</i></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #ffa400; font-size: medium;"><i>Most of the Minibrix kits came with</i></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiXNJecUX1BR90fQQ5_R0W9nhMhU2aMDVopBZfoleatvMJn9w6blIrZDMCxbJH1Xl1hW58I7pL0JyiKfKlhM5p1kPur-qyC48T7p6wK6q7k62wfyv93X6r6Y0c4bfdvDMCqSnUj7CaKiBYV-v5INKMJogeAFetUhes6D_tEEdkudKiz-JBZuzUxYNjT5oc/s677/Minibrix-2.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="677" data-original-width="484" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiXNJecUX1BR90fQQ5_R0W9nhMhU2aMDVopBZfoleatvMJn9w6blIrZDMCxbJH1Xl1hW58I7pL0JyiKfKlhM5p1kPur-qyC48T7p6wK6q7k62wfyv93X6r6Y0c4bfdvDMCqSnUj7CaKiBYV-v5INKMJogeAFetUhes6D_tEEdkudKiz-JBZuzUxYNjT5oc/s320/Minibrix-2.jpg" width="229" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #ffa400; font-size: medium;"><i><br /></i></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #ffa400; font-size: medium;"><i>Below: 3 kits showing different buildings to be erected</i></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEifkMAK-6lw4y4ugARsQTApOnF23qSrjWxlwVyY9r260yt_1dxChDWG7xBMQhB1967zZPIZo-dNwbmdB8YrqnboGAJVPcCvf4E4e9sjLTGdUqXigNYdoubbjcS0ZOhkmMi89aIKH8sw_deeNnNWmSoPotG1eJ7Mq5YtzdrAmaXXU3OC3Mc9eK2_bzh5bgg/s1478/Minibrix-6.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1478" data-original-width="626" height="402" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEifkMAK-6lw4y4ugARsQTApOnF23qSrjWxlwVyY9r260yt_1dxChDWG7xBMQhB1967zZPIZo-dNwbmdB8YrqnboGAJVPcCvf4E4e9sjLTGdUqXigNYdoubbjcS0ZOhkmMi89aIKH8sw_deeNnNWmSoPotG1eJ7Mq5YtzdrAmaXXU3OC3Mc9eK2_bzh5bgg/w209-h402/Minibrix-6.jpg" width="209" /></a></div></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><i style="color: #ffa400;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><i style="color: #ffa400;"><span style="font-size: medium;">As time moved on, the number of kits was reduced to three. The content of the boxes (total number of parts) was reduced, and consequently, the size and complexity of the buildings from before, were not able to be put together. People were not buying Minibrix as before, and so production dropped, and eventually production stopped in 1976. </span></i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEij7UQhu0Z8pS9hDWRlitvN1i4TypAiPGJFcWkVTXCMYExGidxeYYtYBOZwstBN8H5XqaNiLCWNCOfAOmR6DEozdDj7jdaWSM2g01bVgmAWgrraOgtiVtmR7xvDw1r7METx2Y8sQQ5TLrD-qa2CDjptwvyi56fNhU9J-CN3WojvjWmOh8MaO7xnzJLcdLg/s1280/Minibrix-Postwar.jpg-Added-2.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1280" data-original-width="705" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEij7UQhu0Z8pS9hDWRlitvN1i4TypAiPGJFcWkVTXCMYExGidxeYYtYBOZwstBN8H5XqaNiLCWNCOfAOmR6DEozdDj7jdaWSM2g01bVgmAWgrraOgtiVtmR7xvDw1r7METx2Y8sQQ5TLrD-qa2CDjptwvyi56fNhU9J-CN3WojvjWmOh8MaO7xnzJLcdLg/s320/Minibrix-Postwar.jpg-Added-2.jpg" width="176" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><i style="color: #ffa400;"><span style="font-size: medium;"> Tube sets were also produced.</span></i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhwPUl9hEnkL3Hrchr3mNLz0OD2PbaQZWG7OiwBSl_ycKZe4FAHJUFcbEW6A00h-v6gzZgQfzzDLYdXnaBdmzgb8qIv7DHOCQlCRuRf34UOILq-7oFzWcqU_JMA04QG1pnSs6oFdTIcPs8dHp9jt4iC5YXm4vyDvtYkLv0PlDy8S5Va3Lc_139ZjolafSw/s1739/Minibrix-Postwar.jpg-Added-1.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1739" data-original-width="873" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhwPUl9hEnkL3Hrchr3mNLz0OD2PbaQZWG7OiwBSl_ycKZe4FAHJUFcbEW6A00h-v6gzZgQfzzDLYdXnaBdmzgb8qIv7DHOCQlCRuRf34UOILq-7oFzWcqU_JMA04QG1pnSs6oFdTIcPs8dHp9jt4iC5YXm4vyDvtYkLv0PlDy8S5Va3Lc_139ZjolafSw/s320/Minibrix-Postwar.jpg-Added-1.jpg" width="161" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><i style="color: #ffa400;"><span style="font-size: medium;"> Sadly, this once great construction building company eventually closed down. </span></i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><i style="color: #ffa400;"><span style="font-size: medium;">What once was was, and now, people my age (75) can only remember the pleasure that we got from building things. Of course, in my house, I wasn't allowed to just leave finished Minibrix buildings lay around the house, and so I had to dismantle the bricks after a few days of the finished construction lay around.</span></i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><i style="color: #ffa400;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><i style="color: #ffa400;"><span style="font-size: medium;">I haven't found anything about a trick that I learned from a friend back in the 1950's. The bricks were hard to attach together. However, my friend had been told by his father how to make the bricks attach together in a very simple way.</span></i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><i style="color: #ffa400;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><i style="color: #ffa400;"><span style="font-size: medium;">The "trick" was to wet the rubber bricks with water, so that the projected parts of the brick could easily slip into the holes of the other brick. Boy, did that save me a lot of struggling and</span></i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><i style="color: #ffa400;"><span style="font-size: medium;">work to put the bricks together. And the funny thing, was that there was never any instructions to suggest using water to assemble the bricks more easily!</span></i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><i style="color: #ffa400;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><i style="color: #ffa400;"><span style="font-size: medium;">I still have fond memories of making my own small buildings with Minibrix.</span></i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><i style="color: #ffa400;"><span style="font-size: medium;">The toys may be gone, but the memories remain. You can still buy Minibrix kits on ebay, </span></i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><i style="color: #ffa400;"><span style="font-size: medium;">and I'm sure at flea markets in your local area. </span></i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><i style="color: #ffa400;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><i style="color: #ffa400;"><span style="font-size: medium;">I'm tempted to buy a kit or two, but our dog Percy would be eating the bricks, </span></i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><i style="color: #ffa400;"><span style="font-size: medium;">and of course, my wife would "make me clean up" after I just spent hours building</span></i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><i style="color: #ffa400;"><span style="font-size: medium;">a model.</span></i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><i style="color: #ffa400;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><i style="color: #ffa400;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Some things never change!</span></i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><i style="color: #ffa400;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><i style="color: #ffa400;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><i style="color: #ffa400;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><i style="color: #ffa400;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><i style="color: #ffa400;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><i style="color: #ffa400;"><span style="font-size: medium;"> </span></i></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div>toysearcherhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10535892434954886185noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8159558359997817544.post-44492443861368810272024-02-24T11:31:00.000-08:002024-03-09T11:34:49.934-08:00<div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: red; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><i>Saturday, February 24, 2024</i></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: red; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><i>-1° C / 30.2° F</i></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: red; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><i>Overcast </i></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: red; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><i><br /></i></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; color: red; font-size: large; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; color: red; font-size: large; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEifIpHrF_QKFBu8exMmjBA3mTuooTkLxijbxJVJ9qM4GRwtf4mLU_GUYtaMlFGCSfs0A-WfDOPyKUKhRuCwu3UcwBF6G4t_0moMcw5_Tlw4gmmd3RmFHPgQWG-Ls17su-W-cO0afFytlCHwEhjhyNrQfgXFJtQSmNxnNwAmIOxI4qDUmc6hPvISMyULPWg/s400/Title.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="128" data-original-width="400" height="102" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEifIpHrF_QKFBu8exMmjBA3mTuooTkLxijbxJVJ9qM4GRwtf4mLU_GUYtaMlFGCSfs0A-WfDOPyKUKhRuCwu3UcwBF6G4t_0moMcw5_Tlw4gmmd3RmFHPgQWG-Ls17su-W-cO0afFytlCHwEhjhyNrQfgXFJtQSmNxnNwAmIOxI4qDUmc6hPvISMyULPWg/s320/Title.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; color: red; font-size: large; text-align: center;"><i>I already introduced you (the reader)in my last blog post, to Mr. Timothy Edwards, whom I discovered weeks ago on the Net. Timothy has created one of the best and most exhaustive and and researched blogs on the Internet about the Meccano Company. For anyone wanting to know about the Meccano company, this is definitely the website to visit!</i></div><br /><i><span style="font-size: medium;"><a href="https://meccanoindex.co.uk/"><span style="color: #ff00fe;">Please click here (on this line) to visit this wonderful website</span></a><br /></span></i></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: red; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: red; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><i>For those who don't know about Meccano, this great company was created by Mr. Frank Hornby in 1907 (but marketed in 1901 as Mechanics Made Easy). Meccano came in sets of metal pieces with parts and nuts and bolts in green and red boxes. Instructions came with the set, and children (myself included in the 1950's), would assemble whatever design or item came with the instructions. The larger the set of parts, the larger the finished toy would be. Additional sets could be purchased for children who wanted to make larger versions of a toy that they had in mind. As an example, a finished 10" (25.4 cm) airplane could become a 20" (50.8 cm) airplane with the combination of 2-3 kits. Of course, most Meccano enthusiasts would graduate to larger-sized kits that were more complicated and sophisticated. These advanced kits could even have the model-maker order small motors to run their finished model. Examples such as a Ferris wheel, an airplane, or car were quite common at the time.</i></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: red; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><i><br /></i></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; color: red; text-align: center;"><i>I selected the topic below, to illustrate the extensive research and effort that Timothy Edwards has invested in his website. He has created one of the best websites I've ever seen, with regard to a specific toy manufacturer.</i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; color: red; text-align: center;"><i><br /></i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; color: red; text-align: center;"><i>As an aside, is there an award site on the Internet </i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; color: red; text-align: center;"><i>for the best website in different categories?</i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; color: red; text-align: center;"><i><br /></i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; color: red; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEinAQWTvGNsa7GRnS9iRFohwpyTPpbm59o7jfKwVHhES5i7o2rBy2GVcCTQo-j3TyJhPAoJnDdGPdIRxJqWTJqs_LBxB76wcMLwBliZOqb5UGfk2pOid1QnwzrYhqLScdFyp8Ie-QqddFmzU8ZFuW6Lfi5VRpFbeAf9OpZC3JByB-gSreawSWdKA-qbj9o/s1825/Adv.Lit-1927-Intro.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1444" data-original-width="1825" height="253" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEinAQWTvGNsa7GRnS9iRFohwpyTPpbm59o7jfKwVHhES5i7o2rBy2GVcCTQo-j3TyJhPAoJnDdGPdIRxJqWTJqs_LBxB76wcMLwBliZOqb5UGfk2pOid1QnwzrYhqLScdFyp8Ie-QqddFmzU8ZFuW6Lfi5VRpFbeAf9OpZC3JByB-gSreawSWdKA-qbj9o/s320/Adv.Lit-1927-Intro.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /></div><span style="color: red;"><i><span> </span>Tim's website is exceptional in terms of content, photos, </i></span><span style="color: red;"><i>and </i></span><i style="color: red;">written information. I've barely touched the surface of this great resource, and I hope, you, my readers will venture over to this website.</i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><i style="color: red;"><br /></i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><i style="color: red;">So that's it for today, and as always, </i><i style="color: red;">thanks for dropping by, </i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><i style="color: red;">and have a great day or night, wherever you may be.</i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><i style="color: red;"><br /></i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><i style="color: red;">My name is (Mr.) Stacey Bindman, and I can always be reached at:</i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><i style="color: red;"><br /></i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><i><span style="color: #ff00fe;">toysearcher@gmail.com</span></i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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text-align: center;"><span style="color: #0000ee;"><u><br /></u></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #0000ee;"><u><br /></u></span><br /></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; color: red; text-align: center;"><br /></div></span><span style="color: red; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><i><br /></i></span></div>toysearcherhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10535892434954886185noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8159558359997817544.post-25174864909987295042024-02-23T08:24:00.000-08:002024-02-23T13:09:08.538-08:00An Encyclopaedic Website for Meccano Enthusiasts<div style="text-align: left;"><i><span style="color: red; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">Friday, February 23, 2024</span></span></i></div><div style="text-align: left;"><i><span style="color: red; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">3° Celcius / 37.4° Fahrenheit</span></span></i></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: red; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><i>Overcast</i></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: red; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><i><br /></i></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: red; font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i>An Encyclopaedic Website for</i></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: red; font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i>Meccano Enthusiasts</i></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: red; font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><br /></i></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: red; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><i>For those who don't know, my first post was about the great construction toy company -Meccano. </i></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: red; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><i><br /></i></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: red; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><i>I don't want to spoil the story, so please go to the first post, and you'll see</i></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: red; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><i>how I started to blog about toys.</i></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: red; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><i><br /></i></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: red; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><i>Getting back to today's post, I always wanted to write a Meccano post. I'd been searching and searching for a good Meccano website from which I'd be sourced with lots of information. Eventually, about 2 weeks ago, I found one.</i></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: red; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><i><br /></i></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: red; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><i>The website is by Mr. Timothy Edwards for Meccano.</i></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: red; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><i>It is one of the best websites that I have found, that exclusively contains</i></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: red; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><i>a tremendous amount of information about one company. A good portion of the website goes back in time right to the very beginning </i></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: red; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><i>when the Meccano company was created.</i></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: red; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><i><br /></i></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><i><a href="https://meccanoindex.co.uk/"><span style="color: #ff00fe;">Please click here to visit this exceptional website dedicated to Meccano</span></a><br /></i></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><i style="color: red; font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">The screen-captures below provide you with just 1 "tiny" bit of information.</i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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text-align: center;"><span style="color: red; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><i>Over the next couple of weeks, I'll be writing more blog posts about </i></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: red; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><i>Mr. Timothy Edwards fantastic website. I can't even begin to think just how much time and effort Timothy has put into this great resource.</i></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: red; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><i><br /></i></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: red; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><i>For those who ever had a Meccano set (myself included), Timothy's website brings me back more than 65 years ago (I'm 75 now), when my parents got me a Meccano set.</i></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: red; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><i><br /></i></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: red; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><i>The set that I had was a great set to spend time on, and to try and change </i></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: red; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><i>the designs and items that came with the kit. Of course, at that time, I only had one "basic" kit, so I was limited with only so much to build. Nevertheless, I was happy to have this kit. Moreover, there was the chemistry set, hockey equipment (for winter), puzzles, a small set of Lionel train cars and engine, and the carpentry kit. </i></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: red; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><i> </i></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: red; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><i>And of course, there was a lot of time spent with friends. </i></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: red; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><i><br /></i></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: red; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><i>Those times bring back good memories, and I'm sure many of you have</i></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: red; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><i>had the same feelings return due to the toys that your parents, aunts and uncles brought for you.</i></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: red; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><i><br /></i></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: red; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><i>Those were the days.....</i></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: red; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><i><br /></i></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: red; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><i><br /></i></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: red; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><i>As always, thanks for dropping by,</i></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: red; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><i>and have a great part of the day or night,</i></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: red; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><i>wherever you may be.</i></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: red; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><i><br /></i></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: red; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><i>My name is (Mr.) Stacey Bindman.</i></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: red; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><i>and I can always be reached at:</i></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: red; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><i><br /></i></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: red; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><i>toysearcher@gmail.com</i></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: red; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><i><br /></i></span></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br />toysearcherhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10535892434954886185noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8159558359997817544.post-23761218783544202762024-02-22T08:48:00.000-08:002024-03-02T15:18:57.465-08:00<div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: red;"><i>Thursday, February, 22, 2024</i></span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: red;"><i>2°</i></span> <i><span style="color: red;"> Celsius 35° Fahrenheit</span></i></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><i><span style="color: red;">Cloud with R</span></i></span><i style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: red;">ain</span></i></div><div style="text-align: left;"><i style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: red;"><br /></span></i></div><div style="text-align: left;"><i style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: red;"><br /></span></i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="color: red; font-size: large;">What Did You Say That Toy Type Was Called?</span></i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="color: red; font-size: large;"><br /></span></i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="color: red; font-size: medium;">I was searching for toys on LiveAuctioneers, when I found an interesting toy being auctioned by <u>Bertoia Auctions</u>. I decided have a look at a toy with a very interesting adjective (descriptive word) titled "perambulate". </span></i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="color: red; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="color: red; font-size: medium;">What? I never heard that word before! So I did a search on the Internet, and found this explanation of the word from the <b>Oxford</b> dictionary:</span></i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="color: red; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="color: red; font-size: medium;">"Walk or travel through or around a place or area, especially for pleasure </span></i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="color: red; font-size: medium;">and in a leisurely way"</span></i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="color: red; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="color: red; font-size: medium;">What also caught my attention was the description of the "Uncle Sam Perambulator"</span></i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="color: red; font-size: medium;">plus the rarity of the toy.</span></i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjd52m8GUYp5dSfnZ7NVZjcXTqYjD1jM3aVo-BF6h9AJepD3J6OUDIjrvq_XcQYvDLjC7N2hKYyTChcxRmXoCvxVODA84RlDXzJ1Bgn1VwUnedkfn2ENxMKDDXuh65R9JuJIDa49zW5mAr50Cny5FwK3CQqafCTW0rXDEdqIlvCZpIYS09ZjY04jk-0Q5E/s354/Bertoia%20Auctions%20Logo.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="151" data-original-width="354" height="136" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjd52m8GUYp5dSfnZ7NVZjcXTqYjD1jM3aVo-BF6h9AJepD3J6OUDIjrvq_XcQYvDLjC7N2hKYyTChcxRmXoCvxVODA84RlDXzJ1Bgn1VwUnedkfn2ENxMKDDXuh65R9JuJIDa49zW5mAr50Cny5FwK3CQqafCTW0rXDEdqIlvCZpIYS09ZjY04jk-0Q5E/s320/Bertoia%20Auctions%20Logo.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="color: red; font-size: medium;">Below is the Bertoia description for this very rare toy.</span></i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.2px; text-align: start; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span style="color: #f1c232; font-family: trebuchet; font-size: medium;">"UNCLE SAM PERAMBULATOR | Extremely rare piece, circa 1880, this is believed to be one of only two examples of this early American clockwork toy in existence, until recently this example was the only one known as pictured on page 131 in Blair Whitton's book "American Clockwork Toys" and hailing from the legendary Barenholtz Collection, also pictured in Barenholtz's book "American Tin Toys" page 71. Uncle Sam figure dressed in original red and white striped pants and a blue jacket with long coattails (one coattail is torn), this is as much a toy as a piece of historical Americana. | The Curtis & Linda Smith Collection. | 10" h. | Working, the brim of hat is replaced, (Excellent Condition) | $40,000 - $60,000"*</span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.2px; text-align: start; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span style="color: #f1c232; font-family: trebuchet; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.2px; text-align: start; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span style="color: #f1c232; font-family: trebuchet; font-size: medium;">* in US Dollars</span></span></div><p style="text-align: center;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEig3LWjjpTEKx74Uimmwfk5ub_b78C0tCFiE0Jh5d4vu-mqJD2_8syw6SUzaa57K9jYcP3da0SizmXfL0cyRypp6TcvwnTfoY1MBndFQNBtcj1dkHXM0VV1VrOMeoWK2WBcMZAEuPSMi3xl05N7bmQZ4jW_1nbWBu60PYxW173ixVsg2mLjEzIyCGwwQo8/s1294/Bertoia-Penumbulator-02-22-24-2.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; 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margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1247" data-original-width="1158" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi0WWfJPu1Pqptp1Euyly-0Qs0g9owjrxKA-9y05IcGjraBezJYwHwnSeMFXFCcE7R-qreD9LvXvTsYkWonPMe6PEDgZZEiF3TZasZIg3KagZ45R0eXrzde6EwBhC2v-MbJTzlbFY1JkuCTMsnGTnym2S9FgGdW7_Xs62RAlPjzafSRwVZpxMyvMfSrE2A/s320/Bertooia-Penumbulator-02-22-24-7.jpg" width="297" /></a></div><br /><span style="color: red; font-size: medium;"><i>"Circa 1880"</i></span><p></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: red; font-size: medium;"><i>The above caught my eye. </i></span><i style="color: red; font-size: large;">2024 - 1880 = 144 years old! You certainly don't see such an old toy and this type of toy being auctioned off everyday! The bidding on this toy should be interesting. When the auction is finished, you should be able to visit either the Bertoia Auctions website or LiveAuctioneers, and see what the final sold price was.</i></p><p style="text-align: center;"><i style="color: red; font-size: large;">So that's it for today.</i></p><p style="text-align: center;"><i style="color: red; font-size: large;">As always,</i></p><p style="text-align: center;"><i style="color: red; font-size: large;">Have a great part of the day or night wherever you may be.</i></p><p style="text-align: center;"><i style="color: red; font-size: large;">I can always be reached at </i></p><p style="text-align: center;"><i style="color: red; font-size: large;">toysearcher@gmail.com</i></p><p style="text-align: center;"><i style="color: red; font-size: large;">(Mr.) Stacey Bindman</i></p><p style="text-align: center;"><i style="color: red; font-size: large;"><br /></i></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: red; font-size: medium;"><i><br /></i></span></p>toysearcherhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10535892434954886185noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8159558359997817544.post-405984236313718252024-02-20T11:51:00.000-08:002024-02-20T11:51:47.427-08:00An RSL Exceptional American Mechanical Banks Auction<div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: red; font-size: medium;"><i>Monday, February 19, 2024</i></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: red; font-size: medium;"><i>-11° Celsius / 13° Fahrenheit</i></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: red; font-size: medium;"><i>Clear skies but very cold</i></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: red; font-size: medium;"><i><br /></i></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: red; font-size: large;"><i><br /></i></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: red; font-size: large;"><i>An RSL Exceptional American Banks Auction</i></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: red; font-size: large;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgbPpN_VTqrj8PzD3jpHRHOa5qszkT-8TKvk-M6My7MVLgfrJRyigmcx7gBqz80h0sGcE0QL7-83fd9UnIGn5CzrIXD_El7vUrunMP45NtAku0b6bYwJsYgtJiTAfcyA5_c0bu0P4ySMXmOT2CehaN1H2HiMoDRYBbAiIi8nt3CK7wQdjFIGMKstnB9_Vk/s549/RSL%20Logo-2.jpg" style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large; letter-spacing: 0.2px; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><img border="0" data-original-height="549" data-original-width="461" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgbPpN_VTqrj8PzD3jpHRHOa5qszkT-8TKvk-M6My7MVLgfrJRyigmcx7gBqz80h0sGcE0QL7-83fd9UnIGn5CzrIXD_El7vUrunMP45NtAku0b6bYwJsYgtJiTAfcyA5_c0bu0P4ySMXmOT2CehaN1H2HiMoDRYBbAiIi8nt3CK7wQdjFIGMKstnB9_Vk/s320/RSL%20Logo-2.jpg" width="269" /></a></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><a href="https://www.liveauctioneers.com/search/?keyword=RSL%20Auction%20Company&sort=-relevance&status=online"><i><span style="color: #990000; font-size: medium;">Please click here to visit this fine auction company on LiveAuctioneers </span></i></a><br /></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><a href="https://www.rslauctionco.com/"><span style="color: #990000; font-size: medium;"><i>Please click here to visit the RSL Auction Company website</i></span></a><br /></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: red; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><i>I've been posting <b>The RSL Auction Company</b> auctions beginning in 2018.</i></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: red; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><i>I had contacted the company and wrote to Mr. Ray Haredin by e-mail to ask for his permission to write some posts about him and his company. He replied right away, and thus began my blogging.</i></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: red; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><i><br /></i></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: red; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><i>I'll be adding a few more exceptional cast iron toy banks in the near future, but for now I chose this fine American cast iron American mechanical toy bank.</i></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: red; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><i><br /></i></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: red; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><i>If you visit either of the 2 websites that I mentioned, you will notice 2 characteristics of Ray Haredin's website that stand out. </i></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: red; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><i><br /></i></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: red; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><i>One is excellent photography with a large amount of photographs to have any bidder examine the toy.</i></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: red; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><i><br /></i></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: red; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><i>The second characteristic is the well-written description of the merchandise. With both toys, there is a well-written and lengthy amount of information for the bidder to read. This is a fine addition to any on-line item that goes to auction.</i></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: red; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><i><br /></i></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: red; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><i>When you are interested in bidding on any item from any auction company, you want to know as much as possible about the item being auctioned off. This also illustrates that the auction house is knowledgeable about the items going for sale.</i></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: red; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.2px; text-align: start; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><i>"Made by the Shepard Hardware Company. Buffalo, New York - Circa Early 1890's. The Circus Bank is from Shepard Hardware's renowned Excelsior Series of toy banks. When the crank is turned, we watch a clown and his pony circle the sawdust of the center ring. With each turn around the ring, the pony gallops up and down three times. As the clown approaches the penny, his left arm rises up to push the coin into the slot. Once the clown passes the deposit aperture, his arm snaps back down. 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For most children, their first ride on the wooden animals of the carousel represents a highly exhilarating, albeit, frightening experience. To stretch for the brass ring, they must overcome the dizzying forces of physics and conquer all their fears. But the chance of winning a prize certainly provided sufficient motivation for most. Kyser & Rex's Merry-Go_Round bank effectively captures the moment of transformative bliss. The ticket man, wand in hand, takes your penny for admission to the ride. 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text-align: center;"><i><br /></i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><i>I normally read the descriptions of toys going to auction, but whomever wrote these two descriptions, wrote them very well. Not only did I enjoy the excellent photography (I taught pro photography, as well as being a photographer), but the narratives were super!</i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><i><br /></i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><i>And the photography was also great!</i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><i><br /></i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><i>These 2 fine antique toys are exemplary (exceptional) from their era when they were made more that 100 years ago. If you went to Liveauctioneers, and the RSL Auction Company's listings, you'd see what the price of these 2 mechanical bank toys were selling for at the start of the auction. </i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><i>You'd be very surprised!</i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><i><br /></i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><i>Finally, what I have realized in writing over the last 12 years, is that</i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><i>it's really great to see these very old toys being passed on from generation to generation!</i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div>Thanks for dropping by,</span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: red; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.2px; text-align: start; white-space-collapse: preserve;">and as always,</span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: red; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.2px; text-align: start; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: red; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.2px; text-align: start; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Enjoy the day or night, wherever you may be.</span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: red; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.2px; text-align: start; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: red; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.2px; text-align: start; white-space-collapse: preserve;">My name is (Mr.) Stacey Bindman</span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: red; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.2px; text-align: start; white-space-collapse: preserve;">and I can always be reached at:</span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: red; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.2px; text-align: start; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: red; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.2px; text-align: start; white-space-collapse: preserve;">toysearcher@gmail.com<br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><i><br /></i></span></span></div>toysearcherhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10535892434954886185noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8159558359997817544.post-8308878228074572502024-02-19T09:14:00.000-08:002024-02-19T12:12:23.156-08:00It's Always Great to Discover Something New<div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: red; font-size: medium;"><i>Monday, February 19, 2024</i></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: red; font-size: medium;"><i>Clear and sunny skies</i></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: red; font-size: medium;"><i>-11° Celsius / 12° Fahrenheit</i></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: red; font-size: medium;"><i><br /></i></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: red; font-size: medium;"><i>It's Always Great to Discover Something New</i></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: red; font-size: medium;"><i><br /></i></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: red; font-size: medium;"><i>I'd like to begin by mentioning the weather. The weather this year, up here in Montreal Quebec,Canada, and many parts of the world has been very odd. In Montreal, the summer weather was "scattered", with cold and rain, and some warm days with no rain. Then winter came along, and we've had rain, snow, warm and cold. </i></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: red; font-size: medium;"><i><br /></i></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: red; font-size: medium;"><i>I think it must be my age when I mention the cold.</i></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: red; font-size: medium;"><i> </i></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: red; font-size: medium;"><i>I'm a "senior" up here in Canada, and cold weather seems to be very cold for me. </i></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: red; font-size: medium;"><i>A measly (meager, paltry, scant) temperature of -6° C (21.2° F), makes my toes cold, my nose red, and overall, I'm shivering!</i></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: red; font-size: medium;"><i><br /></i></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: red; font-size: medium;"><i>Oops, please excuse me, I deviated from writing this post!</i></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: red; font-size: medium;"><i><br /></i></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: red; font-size: medium;"><i>I was searching Bertoia Auctions, one of the fine toy auctioneers in the USA, when I saw this fantastic metal assembled seaplane. It most certainly looked like a British Meccano assembly. However, when I read the description, I was wonderfully surprised, and I instantly knew what today's post would be about.</i></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><i><span style="color: red;">Bertoia Auctions had described the airplane as an "Enormous Märklin Erector Seaplane", which caught me off-guard. The assembled airplane looked most recognizable as having been assembled from a Meccano set, but I know that Bertoia Auctions were 1000% correct, and I would describe this fantastic airplane (49" / 124.46 cm) wingspan from Bertoia Auctions description.</span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; color: red; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; color: red; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgy9x-gsLxG6g9Bc7dyT5iMMJbtRCVk93o7w79ls2Tqrk9musNqlK521LH6mao_F4uEThiK1G5zukRRw5sJnl8sk4l30e_TlesyINYb6FmLNOK4cv3lDQYWEQnDBWzqXBIDas0szYovm5mCgY8EgTANDntd1m9FX56nKmx4xF_LJIgNnIeT1Kx7uJZK02I" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="1301" data-original-width="1846" height="226" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgy9x-gsLxG6g9Bc7dyT5iMMJbtRCVk93o7w79ls2Tqrk9musNqlK521LH6mao_F4uEThiK1G5zukRRw5sJnl8sk4l30e_TlesyINYb6FmLNOK4cv3lDQYWEQnDBWzqXBIDas0szYovm5mCgY8EgTANDntd1m9FX56nKmx4xF_LJIgNnIeT1Kx7uJZK02I" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; color: red; text-align: center;"><span face="sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; text-align: start;">"In 1908, the English metal construction set Meccano appeared on the German market. In 1912 a German Meccano subsidiary for trading was established in Berlin. With the begin of World War I in August 1914 this German Meccano office, was considered enemy's property and therefore subdued to compulsory German administration. On 15th August 1917 the Märklin company acquired the stocks, protective rights and Meccano trademark from the German Reich government.</span><sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-fitting_1-0" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: sans-serif; font-style: normal; line-height: 1; text-align: start; text-wrap: nowrap; unicode-bidi: isolate;"><a href="https://www.metallbaukasten-wiki.de/From_Hornby's_Meccano_in_Germany_to_the_First_Sets_of_the_Metallbaukasten_M%c3%a4rklin#cite_note-fitting-1" style="background: none; color: #0645ad; text-decoration-line: none;">[1]</a></sup><span face="sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; text-align: start;"></span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; text-align: start;" /><span face="sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; text-align: start;">Märklin sold the Meccano sets until June 1919 still under the name Meccano.</span><sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-RMeMa_2-0" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: sans-serif; font-style: normal; line-height: 1; text-align: start; text-wrap: nowrap; unicode-bidi: isolate;"><a href="https://www.metallbaukasten-wiki.de/From_Hornby's_Meccano_in_Germany_to_the_First_Sets_of_the_Metallbaukasten_M%c3%a4rklin#cite_note-RMeMa-2" style="background: none; color: #0645ad; text-decoration-line: none;">[2]</a></sup><span face="sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; text-align: start;"> Then, from 25th June 1919 onward, they only used the name </span><b style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; text-align: start;">Metallbaukasten Märklin</b><span face="sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; text-align: start;">.</span><sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-RMa_3-0" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: sans-serif; font-style: normal; line-height: 1; text-align: start; text-wrap: nowrap; unicode-bidi: isolate;"><a href="https://www.metallbaukasten-wiki.de/From_Hornby's_Meccano_in_Germany_to_the_First_Sets_of_the_Metallbaukasten_M%c3%a4rklin#cite_note-RMa-3" style="background: none; color: #0645ad; text-decoration-line: none;">[3]</a>"</sup></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; color: red; text-align: center;">I'll have to do more research to see find out what happened after WWI was over and Germany surrendered. I'm sure there were war reparations, mandates, and restoration of the ownership and licensing of the Meccano brand. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; color: red; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; color: red; text-align: center;">I'll see what I can find out, so that I'll be able to write what happened to </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; color: red; text-align: center;">the use of the Meccano license in Germany, compared with what Germany did with "the enemy's property" during WWI.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; color: red; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; color: red; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; color: red; text-align: center;">Have a great part of the day or night, wherever you may be and</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; color: red; text-align: center;">please feel free to write me at </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; color: red; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; color: red; text-align: center;">toysearcher@gmail.com</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; color: red; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; color: red; text-align: center;">My name is (Mr.) Stacey Bindman</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; color: red; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; color: red; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; color: red; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; color: red; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; color: red; text-align: center;"> </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; color: red; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; color: red; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; color: red; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; color: red; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; color: red; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; color: red; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /></i><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: red; font-size: medium;"><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><i><br /></i></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: red; font-size: medium;"><i><br /></i></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: red; font-size: medium;"><i> </i></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: red; font-size: medium;"><i><br /></i></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div>toysearcherhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10535892434954886185noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8159558359997817544.post-89871262972091639842024-02-17T05:49:00.000-08:002024-02-17T05:59:48.192-08:00Mr. Christopher Ferrone to the Rescue<div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: red; font-size: medium;"><i>Saturday, February 17, 2024</i></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: red; font-size: medium;"><i>-6° Celsius / 21.2° F</i></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: red; font-size: medium;"><i>Overcast</i></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: red;"><i><br /></i></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: red; font-size: large;"><i>Mr. Christopher Ferrone To The Rescue</i></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: red; font-size: large;"><i><br /></i></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"> <i><span style="color: red; font-size: medium;"> Lately, I've been reconnecting with people and companies who have helped me write this block. If it wasn't for all of these contributors, my blog would not be what it is today. They have all most-generously taken the time to give me permission to write about them and their toys, as well as sending me their fine photos, or allowing me to screen-capture them.</span></i><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><i><span style="color: red; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></i></div><div style="text-align: left;"><i><span style="color: red; font-size: medium;"><span> Mr, Christopher Ferrone is one of the many people who has been so kind as to help me out. When he's not working very hard with his company, he enjoys restoring old toys. Restoring is not quite the word, because his toys start out in poor condition, and "magically" with the skill of an artist, a class I mechanic, and a Michelangelo of an artist, they are reincarnated to a new life. By the way, as I was searching how to spell Michelangelo, and I discovered that Michaelangelo (Michaelangelo di Lodovico Buonarroti Simoni, was an Italian sculptor, painter, architect, and poet of the High Renaissance). </span></span></i></div><div style="text-align: left;"><i><span style="color: red; font-size: medium;"><span><br /></span></span></i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="color: red; font-size: medium;"><span><span> Here is the background from Christopher on his latest masterpiece:</span></span></span></i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="color: red; font-size: medium;"><span><span><br /></span></span></span></i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="color: red; font-size: medium;"><span><span>"Here are a few pix from a truck I completed since we last spoke.</span></span></span></i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="color: red; font-size: medium;"><span><span><br /></span></span></span></i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="color: red; font-size: medium;"><span><span>It is a composite formerly a Keystone dump truck, </span></span></span></i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="color: red; font-size: medium;"><span><span>with additional customized pieces, such as a front rescue,</span></span></span></i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="color: red; font-size: medium;"><span><span>winch, recovery, crane, and standard toe boom on the back.</span></span></span></i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="color: red; font-size: medium;"><span><span><br /></span></span></span></i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="color: red; font-size: medium;"><span><span>This is to create a rescue style tow</span></span></span></i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="color: red; font-size: medium;"><span><span> truck, in case my other toys break down on the road"</span></span></span></i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="color: red; font-size: medium;"><span><span><br /></span></span></span></i></div><div style="text-align: left;"><i><span style="color: red; font-size: medium;"><span><span><br /></span></span></span></i></div><div style="text-align: left;"><i><span style="color: red; font-size: medium;"><span><span><span> Not only does Chris have a mastery of toy resto</span></span></span></span></i><i><span style="color: red; font-size: medium;">ration, but he has a great sense of humour!</span></i></div><div style="text-align: left;"><i><span style="color: red; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgWh-61LJHlmB7zQDbaFEfkMtjjkHNKjPoGzo6mpYID6jh-Rry9hwDYbJ3jGFRlv3YCh0m57aKNG5IWQchTiFYYrpsXHYK_amft6gxpFLt8OX5uGhdQWxk8TbH09ggU68ftC8tNxu4qwn-zU_0LtfPam8KtcEi9NVYGvfite1yuyl2owgDQuq4cr9NVndo/s748/0-1.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="588" data-original-width="748" height="252" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgWh-61LJHlmB7zQDbaFEfkMtjjkHNKjPoGzo6mpYID6jh-Rry9hwDYbJ3jGFRlv3YCh0m57aKNG5IWQchTiFYYrpsXHYK_amft6gxpFLt8OX5uGhdQWxk8TbH09ggU68ftC8tNxu4qwn-zU_0LtfPam8KtcEi9NVYGvfite1yuyl2owgDQuq4cr9NVndo/s320/0-1.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: red;">What can I say? When I look at these photos that Chris sent me, I'm astounded! Not only does he restore them back to a new condition, but he's able to create parts that were missing. His masterpieces are truly amazing!</span><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: red; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: red; font-size: medium;">I've been up very early today, and after finishing writing this post, I'm all set for this day. It's a great feeling to see someone so talented having the skills, talent and ability to bring these toys back to live.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: red; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: red; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: red; font-size: medium;">As always,</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: red; font-size: medium;">thanks to everyone for visiting, </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: red; font-size: medium;">and have a great day,</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: red; font-size: medium;">wherever you may be.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: red; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: red; font-size: medium;">(Mr.) Stacey Bindman</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: red; font-size: medium;">toysearcher@gmail.com </span></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><span style="color: red; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="color: red; font-size: medium;"><span><span><br /></span></span></span></i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="color: red; font-size: medium;"><span><span> </span></span></span></i></div>toysearcherhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10535892434954886185noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8159558359997817544.post-5549671115129356302024-02-13T20:09:00.000-08:002024-02-13T20:36:28.938-08:00Some of the Most-Visited Blog Posts<div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: red;"><i>Tuesday, February 13, 2024</i></span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: red;"><i>Sunny and no wind</i></span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><i><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: red;">0° Celsius / 32° F</span></span><span style="color: red; font-size: large;">ahrenheit</span></i></div><div style="text-align: left;"><i><span style="color: red; font-size: large;"><br /></span></i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="color: red;"><span style="font-size: large;">Some of the Most-Visited Blog Posts</span></span></i></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: red; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"> <span style="color: red; font-size: medium;"><i>I was browsing through my 1543 posts when I came across one post that has been viewed more than 1500 times. I wondered why that one would have been so popular. From there, I then searched through the entire number of posts, and found other posts that also were more-frequented that all of the others. And so, that's how I cam to write this blog post.</i></span><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; color: red; font-style: italic; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; color: red; font-style: italic; text-align: center;">I am very grateful to all of the people and companies who have helped me with my blog.I placed the 7 toy sellers in alphabetical order, with no favouritism to anyone.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; color: red; font-style: italic; text-align: center;">They all are my favourites!</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; color: red; font-style: italic; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; color: red; font-style: italic; text-align: center;">If you look at the writing below each company's logo, you will</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; color: red; font-style: italic; text-align: center;">see the date that the post was published.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; color: red; font-style: italic; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; color: red; font-style: italic; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; color: red; font-style: italic; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjosM9Pilwz-oyB67TsyElgg9YDH9848vakVnx4LWkLrM9oov_CzHYmHWXCTufX-3pYHW7-TcAuknmWLFoc9jch3EOSYNrGX2DMkv0MY2q4D-yLx0tvtcFxNvIiEdcjNLGDLThCDJmMHfTaRbRhdUd1ZqB0ltS6GEauu1__FFoNXWX6LUo2XD04vGn5cD0/s1144/Bertoia%20Auctions-Post%20Data-%20%232.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="332" data-original-width="1144" height="93" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjosM9Pilwz-oyB67TsyElgg9YDH9848vakVnx4LWkLrM9oov_CzHYmHWXCTufX-3pYHW7-TcAuknmWLFoc9jch3EOSYNrGX2DMkv0MY2q4D-yLx0tvtcFxNvIiEdcjNLGDLThCDJmMHfTaRbRhdUd1ZqB0ltS6GEauu1__FFoNXWX6LUo2XD04vGn5cD0/s320/Bertoia%20Auctions-Post%20Data-%20%232.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.bertoiaauctions.com/"><span style="color: #ffa400;"><i>Please click here to visit this fine company</i></span></a><br /></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; color: red; font-style: italic; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; color: red; font-style: italic; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjH6kOLSoMFTHpRof6W02MqXcA4QryMF8MN98qg6g4FhVz3HyV_vp4zBPNpjdrv9We7AYHpzNGstH5GQSGlw9QZb2ovYamvsQkBRwd0-AMieGr_l-k0QZR_1ykZyWoqzou0U2x9dz5NYpZ4KzQaIUevq6ok_o_zK3H93rjK6T7vcTffq2EmlW-Xt9j-O_I/s1338/Buddy%20L.%20Museum-Post%20Data.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="517" data-original-width="1338" height="124" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjH6kOLSoMFTHpRof6W02MqXcA4QryMF8MN98qg6g4FhVz3HyV_vp4zBPNpjdrv9We7AYHpzNGstH5GQSGlw9QZb2ovYamvsQkBRwd0-AMieGr_l-k0QZR_1ykZyWoqzou0U2x9dz5NYpZ4KzQaIUevq6ok_o_zK3H93rjK6T7vcTffq2EmlW-Xt9j-O_I/s320/Buddy%20L.%20Museum-Post%20Data.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.buddylmuseum.com/"><i><span style="color: #e69138;">Please click here to visit his fine company</span></i></a><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-style: italic; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #a64d79;"><br /></span></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; color: red; font-style: italic; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjISLeBrVRWvnVJIS3Nt4jH2-az9uV84Jgvb2rJjfsi6uNT8WhCJS3GdxyJxqhL6Q1roH8jRPxznKmacPOVNeGXeb38iju1odffhgx_n8gJLSx6EQQFCJIOgmXaIXW6U5GLefnJ4cXwSu06kBUid0AuCz5Cl1lCFMHsymdQJxOQeoa6t3Gl9wUzSzjg_lg/s1509/James%20D.%20Julia-Morphy%20Auctions%20-Post%20Data.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="328" data-original-width="1509" height="70" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjISLeBrVRWvnVJIS3Nt4jH2-az9uV84Jgvb2rJjfsi6uNT8WhCJS3GdxyJxqhL6Q1roH8jRPxznKmacPOVNeGXeb38iju1odffhgx_n8gJLSx6EQQFCJIOgmXaIXW6U5GLefnJ4cXwSu06kBUid0AuCz5Cl1lCFMHsymdQJxOQeoa6t3Gl9wUzSzjg_lg/s320/James%20D.%20Julia-Morphy%20Auctions%20-Post%20Data.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-style: italic; text-align: center;"><a href="https://jamesdjulia.com/"><span style="color: #ffa400;">Please click here to visit this fine company</span></a><br /></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; color: red; font-style: italic; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; color: red; font-style: italic; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh1-zOaBiGaryOXjmg6dg39LpA6rEmRSI8eQozbf6SfANq6gjIKST4ubJzWwHRSac1onH4kfK0sfKCye4IrmfSeCQwEI_JnGHdAqSdalCNqeIdiZWByGtxerp-4myKAwPI6LOSom-ty51ajiR1XiSPLPELs34iV6xLKnKQSa9P1cP9PbMnNSkjfjN0qmcs/s1375/Lloyd%20Ralston-Post%20Data.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="328" data-original-width="1375" height="76" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh1-zOaBiGaryOXjmg6dg39LpA6rEmRSI8eQozbf6SfANq6gjIKST4ubJzWwHRSac1onH4kfK0sfKCye4IrmfSeCQwEI_JnGHdAqSdalCNqeIdiZWByGtxerp-4myKAwPI6LOSom-ty51ajiR1XiSPLPELs34iV6xLKnKQSa9P1cP9PbMnNSkjfjN0qmcs/s320/Lloyd%20Ralston-Post%20Data.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-style: italic; text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.lloydralstontoys.com/"><span style="color: #ffa400;">Please click here to visit this fine company</span></a><br /></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; color: red; font-style: italic; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; color: red; font-style: italic; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjI3NmOl-S5xLooWx4YGT24o5WZOcEZdqEErq8PpMjNlxB9O2y9j2etPDSpPSZSp2a6te-iVHWvxIkXsREZNfu4Lfz9VWKGqE1e7QlaWHh0SHSPccqs0pp1tRmOnxyvL5MVqEr-80WP1hxuGUsWHAj35UnYfM0AlauSRwyUuO1X3Z9ce9bP36sAW7VeD90/s1544/Morphy%20Auctions-Post%20Data.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="342" data-original-width="1544" height="71" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjI3NmOl-S5xLooWx4YGT24o5WZOcEZdqEErq8PpMjNlxB9O2y9j2etPDSpPSZSp2a6te-iVHWvxIkXsREZNfu4Lfz9VWKGqE1e7QlaWHh0SHSPccqs0pp1tRmOnxyvL5MVqEr-80WP1hxuGUsWHAj35UnYfM0AlauSRwyUuO1X3Z9ce9bP36sAW7VeD90/s320/Morphy%20Auctions-Post%20Data.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><a href="https://morphyauctions.com/" style="font-style: italic;"><span style="color: #ffa400;">Please click here to visit this fine company</span></a><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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color: red; font-style: italic; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; color: red; font-style: italic; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; color: red; font-style: italic; text-align: center;">All of the links above these toy sellers and buyers will redirect you to their websites.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; color: red; font-style: italic; text-align: center;">You can also view view all of the posts that I have written about any of the above people and companies by entering their name in the white space (where the arrow is pointing).</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; color: red; font-style: italic; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; color: red; font-style: italic; text-align: center;">Also, if you enter the title of the words of the blog posts above, </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; color: red; font-style: italic; text-align: center;">that will get you to the original blog post. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; color: red; font-style: italic; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; color: red; font-style: italic; text-align: center;">But don't forget to click on the photo or screen-capture of the company</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; color: red; font-style: italic; text-align: center;">or person that you are interested in reading their original post. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; color: red; font-style: italic; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; color: red; font-style: italic; text-align: center;">Clicking on any photo in a blog post will enlarge the image for a</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; color: red; font-style: italic; text-align: center;">nicely-enlarged photo, as well as easily seeing and reading any writing.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; color: red; font-style: italic; text-align: center;"> </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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color: red; font-style: italic; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; color: red; font-style: italic; text-align: center;">I hope that you'll enjoy these posts that were written a while back.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; color: red; font-style: italic; text-align: center;"> If you ever want to have a post written about your toy collection, </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; color: red; font-style: italic; text-align: center;">please feel free to write to me.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; color: red; font-style: italic; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; color: red; font-style: italic; text-align: center;">I'm (Mr.) Stacey Bindman</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; color: red; font-style: italic; text-align: center;">and I can always be reached at:</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; color: red; font-style: italic; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; color: red; font-style: italic; text-align: center;">toysearcher@gmail.com</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; color: red; font-style: italic; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; color: red; font-style: italic; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; color: red; font-style: italic; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; color: red; font-style: italic; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; color: red; font-style: italic; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; color: red; font-style: italic; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; color: red; font-style: italic; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; color: red; font-style: italic; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; color: red; font-style: italic; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: red; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: red;"><br /></span></span></p>toysearcherhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10535892434954886185noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8159558359997817544.post-78262614084833073912024-02-07T10:56:00.000-08:002024-02-08T03:29:48.637-08:00A Fabulous 2-Day Auction of Toys (and Collectibles) by Dan Morphy Auctions <div style="text-align: left;"><i><span style="color: red; font-size: medium;">Wednesday, February 7, 2024</span></i></div><div style="text-align: left;"><i><span style="color: red; font-size: medium;">Mostly Clear Skies</span></i></div><div style="text-align: left;"><i><span style="color: red; font-size: medium;">-4° C / 24° F</span></i><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div><i><span style="color: red; font-size: large;">A Fabulous 2-Day Auction of Toys (and Collectibles) </span></i></div><div><i><span style="color: red; font-size: large;">from Dan Morphy Auctions </span></i></div></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: red; font-size: medium;"><i>A most-interesting 3-day auction is coming up February 14-16, 2024. </i></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: red; font-size: medium;"><i>Since Dan Morphy Auctions has joined LiveAuctioneers, I rarely visit his website. However, when I just visited today, I was very impressed with his new website. A good number of American toy auctioneers have joined LiveAuctioneers to show and auction their collections of toys. </i></span><i style="color: red; font-size: large;">You can still visit Dan Morphy's website or you can visit Dan Morphy's auctions on Liveauctioneers. </i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><i style="color: red; font-size: large;"><br /></i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><i style="color: red; font-size: large;">What I've noticed in the last several years is the change of toy photography. When I started to blog, I would photograph my toys on different colours on brown burlap or grey seamless paper. After a few years of buying and selling toys to write about them on my blog, I decided go in a different direction. I would ask toy sellers all over the USA if I could write about them and their toys. Initially, I would take their photos and in the software "Photoshop",</i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><i style="color: red; font-size: large;">I would remove whatever background the toy was placed on, and place the toy on white.</i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><i style="color: red; font-size: large;">In the last couple of years, I've noticed there has been a big change in toy photography for auctions. Toys are now placed on a white background. The toys present themselves much better than on different backgrounds. As well, photographic lighting has been simplified. Soft lighting, most probably though the use of "softboxes" from studio electronic flash units,</i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><i style="color: red; font-size: large;">has made photography easier, faster, and most of all, a much better showing and lighting of the items going for sale at the many different auction companies in the USA. </i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><i style="color: red; font-size: large;"><br /></i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><i style="color: red; font-size: large;">As you can clearly see below, Dan Morphy's photographers have done a great job in photographing his many toys going to auction. </i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><i style="color: red; font-size: large;"><br /></i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.liveauctioneers.com/auctioneer/249/dan-morphy-auctions/"><i><b><span style="color: #f1c232;">Please click here to visit Dan Morphy's February 14-16, 2024 auction</span></b></i></a><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: red; font-size: medium;">So that's it for another day.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: red; font-size: medium;">Thanks for dropping by,</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: red; font-size: medium;">And as always, have a great part of the day or nigh,</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: red; font-size: medium;">wherever you may be.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: red; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: red; font-size: medium;">I can always be reached at</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: red; font-size: medium;">toysearcher@gmail.com</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: red; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: red; font-size: medium;"> (Mr.) Stacey Bindman</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: red; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><span style="color: red; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></i></div><div style="text-align: left;"><i><span style="color: red; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><i><span style="color: red; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></i></div>toysearcherhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10535892434954886185noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8159558359997817544.post-29464565105558043982024-02-05T10:05:00.000-08:002024-02-06T06:36:36.039-08:00Revisiting the Lloyd Ralston Gallery<div style="text-align: left;"><span><i style="color: red; font-size: large;"> Tuesday, February 5, 2024</i></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: red; font-size: medium;"><i>Sun with Clear Skies</i></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: red; font-size: medium;"><i>-12C° / 10 F</i></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: red; font-size: medium;"><i><br /></i></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: red; font-size: large;"><i>Revisiting the Lloyd Ralston Gallery</i></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: red;"><i><span style="font-size: large;"> </span><span style="font-size: medium;">If you've been a follower of this blog, you'll have read that I have been revisiting people and companies who helped me, when I first started this blog. I first got permission from Mr. Lloyd Ralston about 12 years ago. Lloyd started with his wife Ruth their first auction of an antique toy collection in 1978, and as the saying goes, "the rest is history". Today, in 2024, Glenn and Liane Ralston manage the company, which is located in Shelton, Connecticut, USA. They are members of the Antique Toy Collectors of America, the Train Collectors Association, and the Mechanical Bank Collectors of America. With the company now 46 years "young", and with lots of experience and being members of various collector associations, they are quite knowledgeable about toys and other collectibles.</span></i></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span><i><br /></i></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span><i><span style="font-size: medium;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dinky_Toys#:~:text=Dinky%20Toys%20was%20the%20brand,in%20Binns%20Road%20in%20Liverpool."><span style="color: #ff00fe;"><b>Please Click Here to Visit Wikipedia and the History of the Dinky Toy Company</b></span></a><br /></span></i></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: red;"><i><span style="font-size: medium;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">** I keep having trouble trying to create larger-sized photos for my blogs.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Currently, the photos are small-sized. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">However, if you click on any photo, it will enlarge to an excellent size to view that photo, and every other photo on the blog. <u>The screen-capture below illustrates what I mean</u>.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhYpO791xMQ03sjp2jH9QY8D44gMFoBdTlUt5oPzYEn4MkAzGsxYSndeuoLEXs7jYV_1XXD89Rws2Wknv4wZlB5AzUnrfrlwval6hCR1GMHOt0jqJIlkDzSaMC4A7nKWF3NvDWRN3TxzI-XFgIsoIC0AQ_kb6gYybFuiYDD_yAFXHbapbEsHcBcU62Zztw/s1412/Lloyd%20Ralston%20Gallery-02-05-24-9.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1412" data-original-width="1217" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhYpO791xMQ03sjp2jH9QY8D44gMFoBdTlUt5oPzYEn4MkAzGsxYSndeuoLEXs7jYV_1XXD89Rws2Wknv4wZlB5AzUnrfrlwval6hCR1GMHOt0jqJIlkDzSaMC4A7nKWF3NvDWRN3TxzI-XFgIsoIC0AQ_kb6gYybFuiYDD_yAFXHbapbEsHcBcU62Zztw/s320/Lloyd%20Ralston%20Gallery-02-05-24-9.jpg" width="276" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><u>If anyone can help me present a larger size without losing the sharpness of the writing, </u></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><u>that would be a great help for me.</u></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><u><br /></u></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Below are a sampling of some of the toys being sold by the </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Lloyd Ralston Gallery on Liveauctioneers.com</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">You might want to visit there just to see the nice grouping of Dinky toys there.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhHN0wDKLhxiyNyBVuyea9iEdl0q0zTeYag7pB8ZRkIXh4BBi47yf0nMV7MBTBi_w55Qh4nHt6u-TjF2c_bYWCbiA5MPXK5SQNBTGgvJj9zljYlUWYVjKAcPfpcMWl3EkOw1qe2i5oOKXfACzV7vawATZ37MnX8qCZEHsWiI59QFZWlDDTM2b3Y74xVWYA/s1406/Lloyd%20Ralston%20Gallery-02-05-24-1.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; 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text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">So that's it for today.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Thanks for dropping by.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">As always have a great day wherever you may be,</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">and feel free to contact me at</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">toysearcher@gmail.com</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">(Mr. Stacey Bindman) </div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /> </span><br /></i></span></div><p><span style="color: red; font-size: medium;"><i><br /></i></span></p>toysearcherhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10535892434954886185noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8159558359997817544.post-32099922377700063432024-01-27T08:41:00.000-08:002024-01-27T22:20:49.830-08:00An Ancestor of George Levy Asks for Help<div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: red; font-family: georgia;"><i>Saturday, January 27, 2024</i></span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: red; font-family: georgia;"><i>Overcast </i></span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: red; font-family: georgia;"><i>-2° Celsius / 28.4° Fahrenheit</i></span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: red; font-family: georgia;"><i><br /></i></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span><span style="color: red; font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i>An Ancestor of George Levi Asks for Help</i></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: red; font-family: georgia;"><i><br /></i></span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: red; font-family: georgia;"><i><span> E-mail from readers of my blog is like the famous line in the movie "Forrest Gump". That was a great movie in 1994, starring Tom Hanks as a very kind and simple man. Forrest sits down next to a lady, and as he starts to talk to the lady, he later says:</span></i></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: red; font-family: georgia;"><i><span>"Life was like a box of chocolates,</span></i></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: red; font-family: georgia;"><i><span>You never know what you're going to get"</span></i></span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: red; font-family: georgia;"><i><span><br /></span></i></span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: red; font-family: georgia;"><i><span><span> And so it is in blogging. I never know what readers will write to me, and I always try and find answers to their questions. In today's post, I received an </span></span></i></span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: red; font-family: georgia;"><i><span><span>e-mail from </span></span></i></span></span><i style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><span style="color: red;">Mr. Adrian Mattes, who happens to be a distant relative (great-grandfather) of the famous German toy manufacturer, Mr. Georg Levy who owned the GELY toy company.</span></i></div><div style="text-align: left;"><i style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><span style="color: red;"><br /></span></i></div><div style="text-align: left;"><i style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><span style="color: red;"><span><span> </span>Adrian had personal information about his relatives, and was kind enough to share some information about them below:</span></span></i></div><div style="text-align: left;"><i style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><span style="color: red;"><span> </span></span></i></div><div style="text-align: left;"><i style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><span style="color: red;"><span> "The company name </span></span></i><i style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><span style="color: red;">GELY</span></i><i style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><span style="color: red;"> was a combination of GE from Georg, and LE </span></i></div><div style="text-align: left;"><i style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><span style="color: red;">from the family name Levy. Mr. Georg Levy first worked for the famous company HUKI. The name derived from a combination of the owner - Mr. Hubert Kienberger. "HU" from Hubert, and KI from his family name Kienberger." </span></i></div><div style="text-align: left;"><i style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><span style="color: red;">The company was in Germany.</span></i></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><i style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><span style="color: red;"><span> Adrian's great-uncle Kurt Levy and his family moved to Argentina in the mid 1930's in order to escape from the Nazis. The Levis were Jewish, and thankfully escaped from a potentially horrific end.</span><br /></span></i></div><div style="text-align: left;"><i style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><span style="color: red;"><br /></span></i></div><div style="text-align: left;"><i style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><span style="color: red;"><i style="color: black;"><span style="color: red;"> "Georg and his wife Johanna fled Germany in 1938 and lived out their days in England. Their sons Alfred Levy and Kurt Levy also had worked in the toy factory in </span></i><i style="color: black;"><span style="color: red;">Nürenberg. Alfred went to work for the Mettoy/Corgi toy company in Northhampton, England. It was Kurt who went to Argentina and we believe worked in the toy business there."</span></i></span></i></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><i><span style="color: red;"><br /></span></i></span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><i><span style="color: red;"><span> </span>Adrian had seen some toys manufactured by the Argentinian Toy Company -</span></i></span></span><i style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><span style="color: red;"> </span><u><span style="color: #fcff01;">Matarrazo</span></u><span style="color: red;">.</span></i><i style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><span style="color: red;"> (1930's and later)</span><span style="color: red;"> Adrian's great-grandparents moved to Argentina in the early 1930's in order to escape from the Nazis. They were Jewish, and thankfully escaped from a potentially horrific end.</span></i></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><i><span style="color: red;"><span> Adrian wrote to me and asked a question.</span></span></i></span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><i><span style="color: red;"><span><br /></span></span></i></span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><i><span style="color: red;"><span> 1.Did Kurt Levy had worked with the </span></span></i></span></span><i style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><u><span style="color: #fcff01;">Matarrazo</span><span style="color: red;">toy company</span></u></i><i style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><span style="color: red;"> in Argentina?</span></i></div><div style="text-align: left;"><i style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><span style="color: red;"><br /></span></i></div><div style="text-align: left;"><i style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><span style="color: red;"><br /></span></i></div><div style="text-align: left;"><i style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><span style="color: red;"> The reason for his question was because he observed similarities of the design </span></i></div><div style="text-align: left;"><i style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><span style="color: red;"> and type of toys between GELY and Matarazzo.</span></i></div><div style="text-align: left;"><i style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><span style="color: red;"><br /></span></i></div><div style="text-align: left;"><i style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><span style="color: red;"><span> I wrote back to Adrian, and said that I would try and find an answer to his question.</span> I wrote to someone on ebay, who then answered that another person would be more knowledgeable that he. My question was the same as Adrian had written me. </span></i></div><div style="text-align: left;"><i style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><span style="color: red;"><br /></span></i></div><div style="text-align: left;"><i style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><span style="color: red;">So far, I have not heard back from the ebay seller.</span></i></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: red; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><i><br /></i></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><div style="text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: red; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><i>Below: </i></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: red; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><i>A photograph of Adrian's Great-Grand-Parents</i></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjc8WFffbEOkv7lLlpX5QswrpAFRUbkLY3jArIRSd8UzNCqCkCRYoaYBqshHZ-Y-p1UmOoJ-4-hFbwsUT08l-kKCi231ML7qc09bK5mOQWs1ojjzh0xUsJLbkmcz6po4iXQzofDWrq5EIgO0JE26p5JJbSnngGLG2w8f8tpNeZHquC51eMwMQAoJtB1bTw/s2063/Adrian%20Mattes-1.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2063" data-original-width="1620" height="435" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjc8WFffbEOkv7lLlpX5QswrpAFRUbkLY3jArIRSd8UzNCqCkCRYoaYBqshHZ-Y-p1UmOoJ-4-hFbwsUT08l-kKCi231ML7qc09bK5mOQWs1ojjzh0xUsJLbkmcz6po4iXQzofDWrq5EIgO0JE26p5JJbSnngGLG2w8f8tpNeZHquC51eMwMQAoJtB1bTw/w341-h435/Adrian%20Mattes-1.jpg" width="341" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><i style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large; text-align: left;"><span style="color: red;">Below:</span></i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><i style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large; text-align: left;"><span style="color: red;">A photograph of the original building where Georg Levy </span></i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><i style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large; text-align: left;"><span style="color: red;">(Gely toy company) </span></i><i style="color: red; font-family: georgia; font-size: large; text-align: left;">manufactured his toys in Germany.</i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><i style="color: red; font-family: georgia; font-size: large; text-align: left;">The young child is Georg's grandson, and his name is John.</i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><i style="color: red; font-family: georgia; font-size: large; text-align: left;"><br /></i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEilGHkdLsu7NGHXCq4sFYO079PiefhgmDJpN2WhYE9f6OZ-xcUT-zrN9mGHQMs4wa5OqqGMKpcJNg64fKMOmUM_vaNlEqeUq5zWXDsKpA-FHfZrHVGVY7aSKKr1blSCpom5gZKUySEPeCEUYD0kB8ly9Z6nwl_MnovnPm7K1RoOYtBb9pyi2hXY74lonc0" style="margin-left: 1em; 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text-align: center;"><span style="color: red; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><i>Thanks for dropping by,</i></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: red; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><i>and have a great part of the day or night,</i></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: red; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><i>wherever you may be.</i></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: red; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><i><br /></i></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: red; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><i>As always,</i></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: red; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><i>I can be reached at :</i></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: red; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><i><br /></i></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: red; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><i>toysearcher@gmail.com</i></span></div><span style="color: red; font-family: georgia; font-size: large; font-style: italic;">(Mr.) Stacey Bindman</span></div><i style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><span style="color: red;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /></span></i></div><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: red; font-family: georgia;"><i><br /></i></span></span></p>toysearcherhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10535892434954886185noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8159558359997817544.post-38532832467924141592024-01-23T10:42:00.000-08:002024-01-23T14:03:48.872-08:00oldworldtoys- A Very Interesting Website (Part 2)<div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><i><span style="color: red;">Tuesday January 23, 2024</span></i></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><i><span style="color: red;">Some sun with mostly clouds</span></i></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><i><span style="color: red;">-4° Celsius / 25° Fahrenheit</span></i></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><i><span style="color: red;"><br /></span></i></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><i><span style="color: red;"><br /></span></i></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><div><span style="color: red; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><i>All About Old Toys</i></span></div><div><span style="color: red; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><i>(A Very Interesting website)</i></span></div><div><i style="color: red; font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: large;">(Part II)</span></i></div><div><br /></div><div><a href="https://www.oldwoodtoys.com/"><span style="color: #e69138; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><i>Please click here to visit this fine website</i></span></a><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><i><span style="color: red;">This post is the second of 2 posts presenting to everyone</span></i></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><i><span style="color: red;">this excellent and very resourceful toy website.</span></i></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><i><span style="color: red;"><br /></span></i></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><i><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: red;">Within the website is a section that sells toys from a circus.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: red;"><br />The images below are from a collector who collected over time.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: red;">He happens to live in the Carolinas (in the USA),</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: red;">hence the name of this group of toys. being called</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: red;">"The Carolinas".</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjO-OYAs6UXG1VP4wL20SvOmZqpI6VvhXGI_e1EugKlZK3PH8RUhFDAPrz1rzJGtOdxBfjhLu4RUNGvZm69wYS9v0ZwT2Iz6MYNyOOfsHvVGbCKaPBfYtrbDS2M5ouMElo733DJUeKeGU0MW8Nuh1eqoyayshDJV74Ew-itZmQoehK1mddIExQbD1gAQwA" style="margin-left: 1em; 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margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="1902" data-original-width="830" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhWKR3ub3xKo55X4PcJG0lw9pxWZK8b_xqqKkq4s8wWSkj3bTVFOn8TscskovkgKgpL3X5PN0rtxS-C3g2NGfrCvXIMzgOlKR0O2c8wZEQsWttuotWUn9ptF0N1LSy2JVTOnztLU7YmZQRPA5bPc6rWpMireNjFxj6logAmqaRmIyEdcEqNJurv7lMiNWc=w280-h640" width="280" /></a></div><br /></div><span style="color: red;">I've barely shown much of this exceptional website.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: red;">Not only are is there information about circus toys, but there are</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: red;">lots of photos, as well as sections of toys for sale, besides these fine circus toys. </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: red;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: red;">Jim Sneed</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: red;">most certainly has spent lots of time over the years to create</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: red;">such a wonderful website.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: red;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: red;">Not only is the photography superb, but the information on this </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: red;">website is "superlative". I've been blogging for since January 19, 2011,</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: red;">and I can't even imagine the time and effort that has gone into this unique and encyclopedic website! </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: red;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: red;">Thank you, Jim </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: red;">for this wonderful website.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: red;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: red;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: red;">As always,</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: red;">Thanks for visiting,</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: red;">And have a great part of the day or night,</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: red;">wherever you may be.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: red;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: red;">I can always be reached at toysearcher@gmail.com</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: red;">and my name is (Mr.) Stacey Bindman<br /></span><br /><br /></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><span style="color: red;"><br /></span></i></span></div></div></div>toysearcherhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10535892434954886185noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8159558359997817544.post-9882900957698157762024-01-19T18:02:00.000-08:002024-01-23T14:02:11.511-08:00oldwoodtoys - A Very Interesting Website (Part 1)<div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: red; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><i><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Sunday, January 21, 2024</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Overcast (clouds) with no wind</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">-16° Celsius / 3.2° Fahrenheit</div></i></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: red; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><i><br /></i></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: red; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><i><br /></i></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: red; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><i>All About Old Toys"</i></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: red; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><i>(A Very Interesting website)</i></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i style="color: red; font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: large;">(Part I)</span></i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i style="color: red; font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><i><a href="https://www.oldwoodtoys.com/"><span style="color: #e69138;">Please click here to visit Mr. Jim Sneer's Fine website</span></a><br /></i></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><i><span style="color: red;">This post is the first of 2 that will introduce readers to </span><u><span style="color: #ffa400;">Old Wood Toys</span></u></i></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: red; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><i>I'll be writing the next post soon.</i></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: red; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><i><br /></i></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: red; font-family: georgia;"><i><span><span style="font-size: medium;"> A few weeks ago, I came up with an idea. I would contact people and write new blog posts about them. I've been blogging since 2011, and I thought I'd reconnect with people and see how they're doing.</span></span><br /></i></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: red; font-family: georgia;"><i><span><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span></i></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: red; font-family: georgia;"><i><span><span style="font-size: medium;"><span> </span>Old Wood Toys is a very interesting website. The creator of this website is Mr. Jim Sneed, and he is very directed to learning, selling, and buying toys. Also there is a membership for those who would like to join. This website is an excellent resource for finding information about the Schoenhut toy company. As well, there are other companies that you have been written about for everyone to leanr and discover te many toy companies that once existed.</span></span></i></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><i><span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; color: red; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; color: red; text-align: center;">The screen-capture below introduces you to the website. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; color: red; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; color: red; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #ffa400;">**If you double-click on any image, you will be able to magnify (enlarge) it**</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; color: red; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEioi85a3y9oKcWk3E9vy49Q49fUA7YQFAhgp_X_exJiWNZkqmjRU5vHxmObXDqYVJ-Hx4aqAeuy3C4W76Kf2mjDVj2zUrtWpR3tT_ed9hY-ddc2R3_O67sk4ORIHlFYsLFyt3fZ2b5yDsM2V7bJjjMMPk18umYgv6XTCldwPONl2aLq0fo53uJjgTsn9QQ" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="1218" data-original-width="1600" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEioi85a3y9oKcWk3E9vy49Q49fUA7YQFAhgp_X_exJiWNZkqmjRU5vHxmObXDqYVJ-Hx4aqAeuy3C4W76Kf2mjDVj2zUrtWpR3tT_ed9hY-ddc2R3_O67sk4ORIHlFYsLFyt3fZ2b5yDsM2V7bJjjMMPk18umYgv6XTCldwPONl2aLq0fo53uJjgTsn9QQ" width="315" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div></div></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; color: red; text-align: center;">There is a very informative and interesting part of the website with regard </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; color: red; text-align: center;">to the company Schoenhut. When you visit the Oldworldtoys website, you will immediately notice the high quality of photography.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; color: red; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><i><span><br /></span></i></span></div><span style="color: red;">Below is a screen-capture that shows you some of the sections</span></span></i></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><i><span><span style="color: red;">of the website. This website is quite a resource for those wanting to learn about toys, and especially about the Schoenhut company.</span></span></i></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><i><span><span style="color: red;"><br /></span></span></i></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><i><span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #ff00fe;">If you click on any photo, you will be able to enlarge it</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><i><span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjtzEsf_NessJ0MjPK1SJqflSIIVBUw9_emEUg4JmLkEPsp-9v8E4EpLj5ZMZE_WA0qKjWDAhfMX9FBMZFp5_UH5GMiyDd6T9T8ZLqLWdRPQUL_gY7Xzbc2C59MnRLUPbNLjzfRqzYNK8G0XE835lOFPr71AbIk9SatqR0xGpyJ0sof6wUnIHqHxneRGE0" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="306" data-original-width="1048" height="93" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjtzEsf_NessJ0MjPK1SJqflSIIVBUw9_emEUg4JmLkEPsp-9v8E4EpLj5ZMZE_WA0qKjWDAhfMX9FBMZFp5_UH5GMiyDd6T9T8ZLqLWdRPQUL_gY7Xzbc2C59MnRLUPbNLjzfRqzYNK8G0XE835lOFPr71AbIk9SatqR0xGpyJ0sof6wUnIHqHxneRGE0" width="320" /></a></div><br /><span style="color: red;">Below is a screen-capture introducing the reader to the </span></span></i></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><i><span><span style="color: red;">"Schoenhut Collectors' Club"</span></span></i></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><i><span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgXmqP5FY978_q5cSUJTsn8ZZIDPxA6TcgD-kV1ME50EAYa2NRw-zDDu-ptuH6YCrNahGjqD_zB0m7x1375Vj9FPAFvQmdSXmXY87OWu1gM0lzfnGrR0ntG1Aqdfy5HK8h7Uf9U1-awmBCZ6cuwVCO1nneXhIjGhD5SLDF9uiRiOnFJendCqZr_mmGfGF8" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="1051" data-original-width="1169" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgXmqP5FY978_q5cSUJTsn8ZZIDPxA6TcgD-kV1ME50EAYa2NRw-zDDu-ptuH6YCrNahGjqD_zB0m7x1375Vj9FPAFvQmdSXmXY87OWu1gM0lzfnGrR0ntG1Aqdfy5HK8h7Uf9U1-awmBCZ6cuwVCO1nneXhIjGhD5SLDF9uiRiOnFJendCqZr_mmGfGF8" width="267" /></a></div><br /><br /></span></i></span></div><span style="color: red;">Below is the Home Page for Club members</span><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; color: red; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhmVO1r0uzPQJcy4U7p4xx-rSr89l6-kGa_vlrkh1EaB9hizTKfnFjdL394w5Mks_b4AO7FASEReuEGFpY-dtwk0XJM1NQefM7THKPt8ndcHM7iz93O20OZAgOOoVoM8T2H4zESHJlZKDganP88vGM4T3O0NAq59XQR1NohRNimSKKxLkV5POhZdScjAks" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="1501" data-original-width="1500" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhmVO1r0uzPQJcy4U7p4xx-rSr89l6-kGa_vlrkh1EaB9hizTKfnFjdL394w5Mks_b4AO7FASEReuEGFpY-dtwk0XJM1NQefM7THKPt8ndcHM7iz93O20OZAgOOoVoM8T2H4zESHJlZKDganP88vGM4T3O0NAq59XQR1NohRNimSKKxLkV5POhZdScjAks" width="240" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; color: red; text-align: center;"><br /></div><span style="color: red;">Below is the section to view interesting toys, </span></span></i></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span><span style="color: red; font-style: italic;">as well as purchase toys that you might be interested in.</span><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEimQlNNKErGmlE15FR87NM3eRSn2UEH_BxYzK20aqfD-oIgvK8Qiyj1oaz-mDMyraaEGp_lg003enpQCC0TLmcTJ1-M_xzY3h2m8OHw6MyNOKxT3P1EaimfxQz3DjypHM6sqE2rvQgsy36gPXjM48uWLRCMR7bRMxeiBaDrbPFL7M0sCeZj4L3A9GhNUiY" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><i><img alt="" data-original-height="1204" data-original-width="1485" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEimQlNNKErGmlE15FR87NM3eRSn2UEH_BxYzK20aqfD-oIgvK8Qiyj1oaz-mDMyraaEGp_lg003enpQCC0TLmcTJ1-M_xzY3h2m8OHw6MyNOKxT3P1EaimfxQz3DjypHM6sqE2rvQgsy36gPXjM48uWLRCMR7bRMxeiBaDrbPFL7M0sCeZj4L3A9GhNUiY" width="296" /></i><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-style: italic; text-align: center;"><br /></div></a><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEimQlNNKErGmlE15FR87NM3eRSn2UEH_BxYzK20aqfD-oIgvK8Qiyj1oaz-mDMyraaEGp_lg003enpQCC0TLmcTJ1-M_xzY3h2m8OHw6MyNOKxT3P1EaimfxQz3DjypHM6sqE2rvQgsy36gPXjM48uWLRCMR7bRMxeiBaDrbPFL7M0sCeZj4L3A9GhNUiY" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="color: red;"><i></i></span></a><span style="color: red;"><i><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEimQlNNKErGmlE15FR87NM3eRSn2UEH_BxYzK20aqfD-oIgvK8Qiyj1oaz-mDMyraaEGp_lg003enpQCC0TLmcTJ1-M_xzY3h2m8OHw6MyNOKxT3P1EaimfxQz3DjypHM6sqE2rvQgsy36gPXjM48uWLRCMR7bRMxeiBaDrbPFL7M0sCeZj4L3A9GhNUiY" style="margin-left: 1em; 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margin-right: 1em;"></a><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEg2lZi1asLKRQWGDoqsfq3lxc01GcPxg15KyzjhPfqvfhudAKbXizRJ3tcnv5vYNr43YR3sJ8BIzGVxxs9464EwAorMUKjpQTvx8z85p7NcxWFPqW1VEWR_Ad15k58ZF3dJWIDDRqf5EDkBz-Xk9oB6HNSvN7ME0j3NOfBTSXmXLOE8EIbRB-CaxWIOGnk" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="1422" data-original-width="1500" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEg2lZi1asLKRQWGDoqsfq3lxc01GcPxg15KyzjhPfqvfhudAKbXizRJ3tcnv5vYNr43YR3sJ8BIzGVxxs9464EwAorMUKjpQTvx8z85p7NcxWFPqW1VEWR_Ad15k58ZF3dJWIDDRqf5EDkBz-Xk9oB6HNSvN7ME0j3NOfBTSXmXLOE8EIbRB-CaxWIOGnk" width="253" /></a></div></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-style: italic; text-align: center;"><br /></div></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; color: red; font-style: italic; text-align: center;">The Chad Valley screen-capture presents</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; color: red; font-style: italic; text-align: center;">the viewer with the opportunity to see interesting toys, </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; color: red; font-style: italic; text-align: center;">and to buy them as well.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; color: red; font-style: italic; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgP8I9Jd1gbbE4W1uVOtu0qiYE2yVoqO_FwUqkCRzlJ0_0H6EBYiPEP_Y6zOP2grJiiahEHZRsETkPjbm-iAl-FbF2NVofCwDgxlqtpzDhCEIXY6usQj2Yn1UVUAGw1J48_xUFS8W2dm9rZXQtukCOLtT06Lg9BC4BH2HFliaQ2P0_tpn1z3EoR5n3fBD4" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="1305" data-original-width="1316" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgP8I9Jd1gbbE4W1uVOtu0qiYE2yVoqO_FwUqkCRzlJ0_0H6EBYiPEP_Y6zOP2grJiiahEHZRsETkPjbm-iAl-FbF2NVofCwDgxlqtpzDhCEIXY6usQj2Yn1UVUAGw1J48_xUFS8W2dm9rZXQtukCOLtT06Lg9BC4BH2HFliaQ2P0_tpn1z3EoR5n3fBD4" width="242" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">There are "Restoration Services" for those interested </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">in having their collectibles cleaned</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEidHAneefw-sc-yPm-tZNgE2pH0pR_RwdfPnlUDySTi5Y4dfsbGZGGNpWpKlQIoRFXJK0LGjc_S-n25eRDOS4JiyiFKbnFCS3LxWoAKUvpGNReWcOpgo3lHipTuEV8Se-NerZmy6RlyTm8MpiyJAro7LTbXL1XHL8o363z8BReBLR7l83W1GLrEI-IExDs" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="797" data-original-width="1200" height="213" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEidHAneefw-sc-yPm-tZNgE2pH0pR_RwdfPnlUDySTi5Y4dfsbGZGGNpWpKlQIoRFXJK0LGjc_S-n25eRDOS4JiyiFKbnFCS3LxWoAKUvpGNReWcOpgo3lHipTuEV8Se-NerZmy6RlyTm8MpiyJAro7LTbXL1XHL8o363z8BReBLR7l83W1GLrEI-IExDs" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">The screen-capture above shows advertising pages </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">in the years that the toys were actually sold</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEigplKlXP5GgWZPzda7k70HxXmspPAuvWax4rjEga4zeNg878c5j91vmKH1_Dole7LvMVK0TRNv28kjoCzxbYN7YbqKL1ABpkMLYOgAMZhzzh-gJYB6hNuzGc4HKjG-a7f213i_pFulEv8Gll6n9q0wpokMw0bOYY4tL811UNPxNGBOLQTJqlnRofCnHHc" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="748" data-original-width="1152" height="208" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEigplKlXP5GgWZPzda7k70HxXmspPAuvWax4rjEga4zeNg878c5j91vmKH1_Dole7LvMVK0TRNv28kjoCzxbYN7YbqKL1ABpkMLYOgAMZhzzh-gJYB6hNuzGc4HKjG-a7f213i_pFulEv8Gll6n9q0wpokMw0bOYY4tL811UNPxNGBOLQTJqlnRofCnHHc" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">This screen-capture (above) shows the many</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">toy companies that were around "way back" in those days! </div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgIRF7RUFTrJZqOqukm2uRtCnTCWF6qNmhDAn4wwfQihCC2XZK63nOEN0ZBOigP9eP1y4becAp5ZKBxoiVjkQ-tyxxayrVIVuN66AbqUH6UrQw_NAKqrfEHCEx0pqDx1hs0ayZjzDRYqXI2FOxlNq7EYKT1R9-yI6Qf4LjajVA06jBqv1MU7PbV-s63nps" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="744" data-original-width="1144" height="208" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgIRF7RUFTrJZqOqukm2uRtCnTCWF6qNmhDAn4wwfQihCC2XZK63nOEN0ZBOigP9eP1y4becAp5ZKBxoiVjkQ-tyxxayrVIVuN66AbqUH6UrQw_NAKqrfEHCEx0pqDx1hs0ayZjzDRYqXI2FOxlNq7EYKT1R9-yI6Qf4LjajVA06jBqv1MU7PbV-s63nps" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">This screen-capture (above) shows a great reference of</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">toy catalogues</div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">The screen-capture below is a sample page</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">of a Gong Bell 1940 catalogue</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">What a great reference and resource Oldwoodtoys.com is!</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjbUNE1aVk4_SCUD3TjKh_Zlj8deFffSAScBxiYyNeCVITk6kUqrHFlc3sE6xt-q-xBgR5QWYh5vJ1H_x4cfNQNkdV5nV8hfdVj4tExBZfwzPoT3nTvAiBEERIhkxmbe3GvsFfQvYEZtzYCMnbaLRHCL5YntcU36-68GznEkp1oQlXabq__D6coxhmZxIM" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="1101" data-original-width="1173" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjbUNE1aVk4_SCUD3TjKh_Zlj8deFffSAScBxiYyNeCVITk6kUqrHFlc3sE6xt-q-xBgR5QWYh5vJ1H_x4cfNQNkdV5nV8hfdVj4tExBZfwzPoT3nTvAiBEERIhkxmbe3GvsFfQvYEZtzYCMnbaLRHCL5YntcU36-68GznEkp1oQlXabq__D6coxhmZxIM" width="256" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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text-align: center;">You can contact Mr. Jim Sneed by clicking below:</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="mailto:jlsneed2@bellsouth.net">Contact by clicking this</a><br /></div></div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">To be continued.............</div><br /><br />Thanks for dropping by,</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">And as always,</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Have a great part of the day or night, </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Wherever you may be.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">My name is (Mr.) Stacey Bindman</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">and I can always be reached at:</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">toysearcher@gmail.com<br /><br /></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><br /></div><br /><br /></div><br /><br /></div><br /><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; color: red; font-style: italic; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; color: red; font-style: italic; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; color: red; font-style: italic; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><span style="color: red; font-size: medium; font-style: italic;"><br /></span></span></span></div>toysearcherhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10535892434954886185noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8159558359997817544.post-13700395696314887802024-01-16T09:12:00.000-08:002024-01-16T09:35:15.409-08:00An Exceptional Seller on LiveAuctioneers<div style="text-align: left;"><i><span style="color: red; font-size: medium;">Tuesday January 16, 2024</span></i></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: red; font-size: medium;"><i>-6° Celsius / 21.2° Fahrenheit</i></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: red; font-size: medium;"><i>Overcast</i></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: red; font-size: medium;"><i><br /></i></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: red; font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i>An Exceptional Toy Seller on</i></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjKq-B4yQTtRURmjJnM8ZUQFdom7vt3IdMIzw-GptXVQwuQGJilREV6TBBQp4IrMmr5n2eX0IlaK91v_JFETg85XbUvMv16g_Ix_Fa1ArMnNdLeytf0lDB64VCHZJAvogKezk1os4BaIt6YoOc6N6pMF-Wg10_1GCQHtYn6y9xI1r6nKblZSzrR1LLS2PA" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="79" data-original-width="600" height="22" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjKq-B4yQTtRURmjJnM8ZUQFdom7vt3IdMIzw-GptXVQwuQGJilREV6TBBQp4IrMmr5n2eX0IlaK91v_JFETg85XbUvMv16g_Ix_Fa1ArMnNdLeytf0lDB64VCHZJAvogKezk1os4BaIt6YoOc6N6pMF-Wg10_1GCQHtYn6y9xI1r6nKblZSzrR1LLS2PA=w166-h22" width="166" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjssW1fg4EEDSdfj7sMiJpD3VdPjqZkl_HJlscxrl1fXWC-w0D2hdvNbWBxv4BdORRW31ra-RHLajvysI95lCkspl9Uza4nDj9GAGGgGX0PL5cQluJ1H4HHHLm8AV0QqsSW69oFnPjPmdgbs8VmPPZLofYlK4_UYkqfRhuyzwfPf-BMzV56ET0sCWud2pw" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="165" data-original-width="751" height="70" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjssW1fg4EEDSdfj7sMiJpD3VdPjqZkl_HJlscxrl1fXWC-w0D2hdvNbWBxv4BdORRW31ra-RHLajvysI95lCkspl9Uza4nDj9GAGGgGX0PL5cQluJ1H4HHHLm8AV0QqsSW69oFnPjPmdgbs8VmPPZLofYlK4_UYkqfRhuyzwfPf-BMzV56ET0sCWud2pw" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.liveauctioneers.com/auctioneer/8851/marz-auctions/"><i><span style="color: #ff00fe; font-size: medium;">Please click here to visit Marz Auctions on liveauctioneers</span></i></a><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.marzauctions.com/"><span style="color: #ff00fe; font-size: medium;"><i>Please click here to visit Marz Auctions website</i></span></a><br /></div><br /><br /></div><span style="color: red;"><i><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">After a long time, I've been trying to get back into writing again. So, a few days ago, I went to visit the </span></i></span><b style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><span style="color: #cccccc;">Live</span></b><span style="color: #666666; font-family: arial; font-size: large;">auctioneers</span><span style="color: red; font-family: arial; font-size: large;"> </span><span style="color: red; font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i>websites to</i></span><span style="color: red; font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i> 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 </i></span><b style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><span style="color: #cccccc;">Live</span></b><span style="color: #666666; font-family: arial; font-size: large;">auctioneers</span><span style="color: red; font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: arial;"> </span><i><span style="font-family: arial;">to sell their toys, </span><span style="font-family: georgia;">but still maintain their own websites.</span></i></span><i style="color: red; font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"> </i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i style="color: red; font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><br /></i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i style="color: red; font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">Sure enough, as I was perusing through the many toy sellers, one vendor attracted my attention. </i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i style="color: red; font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><br /></i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i style="color: red; font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">Their description was very well written, but the last sentence caught my attention.</i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i style="color: red; font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><br /></i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i style="color: red; font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">**We don't just shoot for the Moon, we overachieve and shoot for Marz**</i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i style="color: red; font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><br /></i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i style="color: red; font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">The play on words of their company name "Marz" was comical and brilliant!</i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i style="color: red; font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><br /></i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: red; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><i>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.</i></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: red; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><i><br /></i></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: red; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><i>Naturally, I wrote to the company, and I got a reply allowing me to use their fine photos, as well as their descriptions.</i></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: red; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><i><br /></i></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><i><span style="color: #f1c232; font-family: trebuchet; font-size: medium;"> 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.</span></i></div><div><i><span style="color: #f1c232; font-family: trebuchet; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></i></div></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgATUomaJxRF2XqiKZWLVVY8j9CnVRnbUCDMRGHo9_gXgBGkTZjGlgL8jwP8qIzaNJwojH04b9EWVdjJGu_MaFTVV-sYI51sqMHywPE67GQx6a_C0PyspNoFwdrx0-mCAtVYxZdHSQrfsCqxi4oPTbOyEAAp2iZw0YzL_fvt47QVp9PEOEcLSgjjztvtaI" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="2572" data-original-width="1374" height="764" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgATUomaJxRF2XqiKZWLVVY8j9CnVRnbUCDMRGHo9_gXgBGkTZjGlgL8jwP8qIzaNJwojH04b9EWVdjJGu_MaFTVV-sYI51sqMHywPE67GQx6a_C0PyspNoFwdrx0-mCAtVYxZdHSQrfsCqxi4oPTbOyEAAp2iZw0YzL_fvt47QVp9PEOEcLSgjjztvtaI=w407-h764" width="407" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><i><span style="color: #f1c232; font-family: trebuchet; font-size: medium;">Item details:</span></i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><i><span style="color: #f1c232; font-family: trebuchet; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><i><span style="color: #f1c232; font-family: trebuchet; font-size: medium;">"Iconic Althof Bergmann Key Wind Fire Pumper with deluxe key wind mechanism.</span></i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><i><span style="color: #f1c232; font-family: trebuchet; font-size: medium;">Toy circa 1885 from New York, NY form Bergmann top features of the day for toys.</span></i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><i><span style="color: #f1c232; font-family: trebuchet; font-size: medium;">The fire engine is drawn by two horses.</span></i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><i><span style="color: #f1c232; font-family: trebuchet; font-size: medium;">16" long x 7" high.</span></i></div></div></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhJlETjG-B1LfS8jIzoso6EZy7qSmKg4INbuMifAee_0bhXYdfQANpioI4Jy4K_VuG0IuD6aOPDLghXKuFc3GVHt6_OSzfdPDjgu_mlyvRdysJZ09wGRrxgzZKH6p09AncTuCQ1miWYiyFY02YfvKQaIo_5z8rHwdRm7cKGj_MjMak8KtYyna6rMg5DcXw" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="3774" data-original-width="1093" height="1135" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhJlETjG-B1LfS8jIzoso6EZy7qSmKg4INbuMifAee_0bhXYdfQANpioI4Jy4K_VuG0IuD6aOPDLghXKuFc3GVHt6_OSzfdPDjgu_mlyvRdysJZ09wGRrxgzZKH6p09AncTuCQ1miWYiyFY02YfvKQaIo_5z8rHwdRm7cKGj_MjMak8KtYyna6rMg5DcXw=w328-h1135" width="328" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f1c232; font-size: medium;"><i>Extra large J.E.P. Seaplane F260 with pontoons and windup key.</i></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f1c232; font-size: medium;"><i>Nice original plane with strong windup motor and pilot.</i></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f1c232; font-size: medium;"><i>Large wingspan 18" x 12.5" length.</i></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f1c232; font-size: medium;"><i>(45.72 cm x 31.75 cm)</i></span></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEienWAIEl9t-bKUtxpU3lpri3rahLviw3sx_3eEJ_5OXZ9Qr3kRJmyTyNe571fiHEJ9ehpPqIJicSHmJZPevWVgjbE3meuSp72ypPQb65cgtu5LcJiFXzUZA9QfS6YTJItepiRLLHIOA-ltfezaIEhElstzx8PdcvxpsptR_uvC7WO56BE8R_AKI0RlAys" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="2022" data-original-width="713" height="890" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEienWAIEl9t-bKUtxpU3lpri3rahLviw3sx_3eEJ_5OXZ9Qr3kRJmyTyNe571fiHEJ9ehpPqIJicSHmJZPevWVgjbE3meuSp72ypPQb65cgtu5LcJiFXzUZA9QfS6YTJItepiRLLHIOA-ltfezaIEhElstzx8PdcvxpsptR_uvC7WO56BE8R_AKI0RlAys=w316-h890" width="316" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><i style="color: #f1c232; font-size: large;">Giant Buddy L Wrecker toy truck.</i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><i style="color: #f1c232; font-size: large;">Circa 1928 with a working winch.</i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><i style="color: #f1c232; font-size: large;">28" long x 10" tall (71.12 cm x 25.4 cm)</i></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEg6eLy6tw36cfIWxWkT4DF7ZA7Kb1MB4Y49MYuJe7i62O2wko5D6mQDmTLlYFXsMDYG84FOkyKhP-za6NszUy9R1v7aOTEoQPPP4cGWmZnQLbP64zFEgo8G0SJ6VjBOnohBSRxztb1axsXN4iIFQ4ichN7_2Y4v6WhOxhWUAL8TRYo_naXTKv9zD-6Du7o" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="2807" data-original-width="1380" height="748" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEg6eLy6tw36cfIWxWkT4DF7ZA7Kb1MB4Y49MYuJe7i62O2wko5D6mQDmTLlYFXsMDYG84FOkyKhP-za6NszUy9R1v7aOTEoQPPP4cGWmZnQLbP64zFEgo8G0SJ6VjBOnohBSRxztb1axsXN4iIFQ4ichN7_2Y4v6WhOxhWUAL8TRYo_naXTKv9zD-6Du7o=w368-h748" width="368" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><i style="color: #f1c232; font-size: large;">"Tin Windup Delahane Open Touring sedan in Largest Size.</i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><i style="color: #f1c232; font-size: large;">Likely by Pinard of France, as it is the largest in a flight of 3 cars offered circa 1918.</i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><i style="color: #f1c232; font-size: large;">Attributed to Pinard, but we have seen it also J.E.P. of France.</i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><i style="color: #f1c232; font-size: large;">Hand wrought in tin. </i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><i style="color: #f1c232; font-size: large;">Approximately 19" (48.26 cm) in length"</i></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiT_j17Ql0Qm6cvEVzzbwBIRxQYRlt9-0JKBLX_wDRrwhtmTNMlTiJt9HPWKQcMHaGiiRpqawSbXHbM2ZuIBNzIeABBMHbUMlaROeZ6PHDXehl7wESxg2N8my48njYxqBhtDS-si_NQZW-HTD5_O_eIFCAiBjC83w5i3M93Mw3ux9nWddP8AJuhCOGE5mw" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="1120" data-original-width="1600" height="448" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiT_j17Ql0Qm6cvEVzzbwBIRxQYRlt9-0JKBLX_wDRrwhtmTNMlTiJt9HPWKQcMHaGiiRpqawSbXHbM2ZuIBNzIeABBMHbUMlaROeZ6PHDXehl7wESxg2N8my48njYxqBhtDS-si_NQZW-HTD5_O_eIFCAiBjC83w5i3M93Mw3ux9nWddP8AJuhCOGE5mw=w640-h448" width="640" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><span style="color: #f1c232; font-size: medium;"><i>"Althof Bergmann Key Wind Fire Pumper with deluxe clockwork key wind mechanism". </i></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f1c232; font-size: medium;"><i>Toy circa 1885 from New York, NY firm Bergmann.</i></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f1c232; font-size: medium;"><i>16" long x 7" high (40.64 cm x 17.78 cm)"</i></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f1c232; font-size: medium;"><i><br /></i></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgYR3aj04qQOlMZv6Sjbk-cW6Ylk6sAQ8kKifsCWBFUn1g_UkhfrD3v0-FeWiIbCL7Q5hfVtr5Sv9SL2QQdCXQA-ajMpaDPYBuqJH1Pollh1Ig6PsaWSZQz6p0JAlD9b1Odsid7_yol0CR4eg5dkiCev2ftmzMen4KKG1Y6fQRw7Zsv5mjQ4Mz7HHhSNqE" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="1170" data-original-width="1600" height="468" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgYR3aj04qQOlMZv6Sjbk-cW6Ylk6sAQ8kKifsCWBFUn1g_UkhfrD3v0-FeWiIbCL7Q5hfVtr5Sv9SL2QQdCXQA-ajMpaDPYBuqJH1Pollh1Ig6PsaWSZQz6p0JAlD9b1Odsid7_yol0CR4eg5dkiCev2ftmzMen4KKG1Y6fQRw7Zsv5mjQ4Mz7HHhSNqE=w640-h468" width="640" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f1c232; font-size: medium;"><i>"Deluxe" service airplane</i></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f1c232; font-size: medium;"><i>22" ( 55.88 cm) wingspan" </i></span></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjZ8nM5218--ZOUK5IH296Ihr-eiFXcU9cFbTu06jbw9iVd4Yt8NRF5T9t5MbPzK-Vz3sE68HXWeqeuQGbGB-Y3ifrYvGTAkrbCiZR8kTp1idzk7JssuwzZEJ2hT3GonGrJXb-NR8Xb-9QscjHlxh5MYtSbCLPfhTi-oPhTwHnUWqHNgSvEJSWn_XHbNJg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="1726" data-original-width="1300" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjZ8nM5218--ZOUK5IH296Ihr-eiFXcU9cFbTu06jbw9iVd4Yt8NRF5T9t5MbPzK-Vz3sE68HXWeqeuQGbGB-Y3ifrYvGTAkrbCiZR8kTp1idzk7JssuwzZEJ2hT3GonGrJXb-NR8Xb-9QscjHlxh5MYtSbCLPfhTi-oPhTwHnUWqHNgSvEJSWn_XHbNJg=w483-h640" width="483" /></a></div><br /><span style="color: #f1c232; font-size: medium;"><i>" Large Fleishmann / Carette Battleship of this series at 21" (53.34 cm)</i></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f1c232; font-size: medium;"><i>Eight single barrel guns. Twin smoke stacks with twin towers and pennant flags."</i></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f1c232; font-size: medium;"><i>Original tin battleship with German navy flag and anchor. Windup with original key."</i></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f1c232; font-size: medium;"><i><br /></i></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f1c232; font-size: medium;"><i><br /></i></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f1c232; font-size: medium;"><i style="color: red; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">You might want to visit the Marz Auctions website either at their website or on </span></i></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f1c232; font-size: x-small;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjKq-B4yQTtRURmjJnM8ZUQFdom7vt3IdMIzw-GptXVQwuQGJilREV6TBBQp4IrMmr5n2eX0IlaK91v_JFETg85XbUvMv16g_Ix_Fa1ArMnNdLeytf0lDB64VCHZJAvogKezk1os4BaIt6YoOc6N6pMF-Wg10_1GCQHtYn6y9xI1r6nKblZSzrR1LLS2PA" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="79" data-original-width="600" height="22" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjKq-B4yQTtRURmjJnM8ZUQFdom7vt3IdMIzw-GptXVQwuQGJilREV6TBBQp4IrMmr5n2eX0IlaK91v_JFETg85XbUvMv16g_Ix_Fa1ArMnNdLeytf0lDB64VCHZJAvogKezk1os4BaIt6YoOc6N6pMF-Wg10_1GCQHtYn6y9xI1r6nKblZSzrR1LLS2PA=w166-h22" width="166" /></a></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i style="color: red;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">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.</span></i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i style="color: red;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i style="color: red;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">So that's it for today, on a cloudy, cold, and snowy day </span></i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i style="color: red;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">here in Montreal,Quebec (canada).</span></i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f1c232;"><i style="color: red;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">As always, </span></i></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f1c232;"><i style="color: red;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Thanks for dropping by, </span></i></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f1c232;"><i style="color: red;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">and have a great part of the day or night, wherever you may be.</span></i></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f1c232;"><i style="color: red;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></i></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f1c232;"><i style="color: red;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">I can always be reached at:</span></i></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f1c232;"><i style="color: red;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></i></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f1c232;"><i style="color: red;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">toysearcher@gmail.com</span></i></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f1c232;"><i style="color: red;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></i></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f1c232;"><i style="color: red;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">and my name is (Mr.) Stacey Bindman</span></i></span></div>toysearcherhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10535892434954886185noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8159558359997817544.post-12087606478967785512024-01-14T14:23:00.000-08:002024-01-15T09:34:38.371-08:00<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="color: red; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><i>Sunday, January 14, 2024</i></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="color: red; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><i>Cloudy with sunny periods</i></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="color: red; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><i>-3° Çelsius / 26.6° Fahrenheit</i></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="color: red; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><i><br /></i></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: red; font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i>Going Back to Old Auctions</i></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: red; font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i>with Dan Morphy Auctions</i></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: red; font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i>on LiveAuctioneers</i></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: red; font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><br /></i></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; color: red; font-size: x-large; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjXlSEr2VHhP9z0KQqMe5-ZYYZz3a7ngo62cZ3c1-gjf60ATpTfqfckFDHYck1yA05r4M-EgUoooGaaGHnvRMouuxbHBHCqKHCOE4JuTxqA9kcrSzlQfPiBSAW769bxEjriyZSji9Furxjs9De7oB1aS3bsUDVvNBPA2izczNY9FfgBLyDhkLkM5VcroJY/s473/Screen%20Shot%202024-01-14%20at%2015.42.09.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="251" data-original-width="473" height="170" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjXlSEr2VHhP9z0KQqMe5-ZYYZz3a7ngo62cZ3c1-gjf60ATpTfqfckFDHYck1yA05r4M-EgUoooGaaGHnvRMouuxbHBHCqKHCOE4JuTxqA9kcrSzlQfPiBSAW769bxEjriyZSji9Furxjs9De7oB1aS3bsUDVvNBPA2izczNY9FfgBLyDhkLkM5VcroJY/s320/Screen%20Shot%202024-01-14%20at%2015.42.09.png" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://morphyauctions.com/auctions/"><span style="color: #ff00fe; font-size: medium;"><i>Please click here to visit Morphy Auctions website</i></span></a><br /></div><br /><span style="color: red; font-size: medium;"><i>I started to blog in 2013, which seems like so long ago. I didn't know where I would be going with writing a blog post on old and antique toys, but having retired from teaching, it was a start. You can visit my first post, to see how I started writing about toys.</i></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: red; font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><i><br /></i></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: red; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><i>Initially. I was buying and selling toys, but that was expensive. Unlike the USA, up here in Canada, and specifically in Montreal (where I live) there are not many old and antique toys to be found. I searched and did find some toys, but not the ones that I had seen in the USA. </i></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: red; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><i><br /></i></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><i><span style="color: red;">I started buying and selling, with American toy sellers and individuals on e</span><span style="color: #3d85c6;">b</span><span style="color: #ffd966;">a</span><span style="color: #6aa84f;">y</span><span style="color: red;">,</span></i></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span style="color: red;"><i>but with the exchange rate with the Canadian dollar and the US dollar, and shipping, I was losing money! So what I decided to do, is to ask American toy sellers if I might use their photos, and write about </i><b style="font-style: italic; text-decoration-line: underline;">their</b> <i>toys. Sure enough, most of the people that I wrote to gave me their permission, and I was on journey to write about toys.</i></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span style="color: red;"><i><br /></i></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><i><span style="color: red;">One of the people the I wrote to was Mr. Dan Morphy and his company </span></i></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><i><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #1f79ee;">Morphy</span><span style="color: red;"> </span><span style="color: #990000;">Auctions</span></span><span style="color: red; font-size: large;">.</span></i></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><i><span style="color: red; font-size: large;"><br /></span></i></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><i><span style="color: red; font-size: medium;">Even way back in 2013, Dan Morphy was an excellent seller. He had a very good staff, and he sold lots of toys, among other merchandise. I always got the sense that he would do very well in the future, and so he has. </span></i></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><i><span style="color: red; font-size: medium;">Bravo, to Dan!</span></i></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><i><span style="color: red; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></i></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><i><span style="color: red; font-size: medium;">My purpose today wasn't just to write about Dan Morphy and his excellent company, but to write about what I discovered only just yesterday. I was visiting</span></i></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #6fa8dc; font-family: georgia;">live</span><span><span style="color: red; font-family: georgia; font-style: italic;"> </span><span style="color: #ffa400; font-family: courier;">Auctioneers</span><span style="color: #01ffff; font-family: courier;">©</span><span style="color: red; font-family: courier;"> </span><span style="color: red; font-family: georgia;"><i>and decided to see if I could find auctions from a long way back (10 years or more). And sure enough, I made that "discovery"!</i></span></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span><span style="color: red; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><i><br /></i></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span><span style="color: red; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><i>I was able to find a Dan Morphy Auction from June 24, 2016!</i></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span><span style="color: red; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><i><br /></i></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span><span style="color: red; font-family: georgia;"><i><span style="font-size: medium;">And so, all of the presentations today are in fact from that auction, that is still recorded in a giant computer database</span><span style="font-size: large;"> at </span></i></span></span><span style="color: #6fa8dc; font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">live</span><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: red; font-family: georgia; font-style: italic;"> </span><span style="color: #ffa400; font-family: courier;">Auctioneers</span><span style="color: #01ffff; font-family: courier;">©</span></span><i style="color: red; font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"> headquarters,</i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><i style="color: red; font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">and can be accessed by anyone.</i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><i style="color: red; font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"> </i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjrtM_hlasVLviSBSopx7pbFAJjbiBGkmCjnbe_SwUyDd2KSxp0KyeN3qXileTB61Mmvk49eTTujSGZPRRkbb87khB2fDidWX173MO09wc9bw-iSyJFg3aJFmr3yjg6lty82gwo2e0bnZ-PC60OzYHWj48iaxxz37cVQDvDHKa5Mowjht_RiiqizWB4W6Y/s1755/1-%20Dated%202016.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; 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text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><i style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="color: red; font-size: medium;">Length: 24 1/4" (61.195 cm)</span></i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><i style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="color: red; font-size: medium;">Name on back is "Comet"</span></i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiR_nC2GmEklwhFmiBtgbMyRTtzkoN7xJ5ShSS4l0q2Z9wngdHBdL5NfKdAvLGdQg4YRAWRH7rWK2xe_3uzutd3EldcHI3Y35AMb5sAvV50qPCvUw1LUQcCnDWC75ahOLdkhsi1rVEsJu3ZYHvC9O7ctDc1ZLKC0vKFNJTjc2iaKFnHIoWuRE1JTiMZQEs/s1495/3.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1034" data-original-width="1495" height="221" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiR_nC2GmEklwhFmiBtgbMyRTtzkoN7xJ5ShSS4l0q2Z9wngdHBdL5NfKdAvLGdQg4YRAWRH7rWK2xe_3uzutd3EldcHI3Y35AMb5sAvV50qPCvUw1LUQcCnDWC75ahOLdkhsi1rVEsJu3ZYHvC9O7ctDc1ZLKC0vKFNJTjc2iaKFnHIoWuRE1JTiMZQEs/s320/3.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><i><span style="color: red; font-size: medium;">Circa late 19th century</span></i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><i><span style="color: red; font-size: medium;">Size: 22"/ 55.88 cm</span></i></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh3zgXp90iUhdjwJVh-lJhP6nVSktGSuFAF9aXsFNcKRRnJkVfkmc-o8HXS0SGWoCQ5QFI6poI5XB4vZ0I7whVs2-5wYexQLenLusgRcrBzQKtBQuRMhxHxFThBlTGQcCQEQ3mvHwlxYMa5fhnB1nzG0GQS5Nzub76Xv0Zz-HKgQC6za2ZYuXu02w6hovY/s1495/4.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1021" data-original-width="1495" height="219" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh3zgXp90iUhdjwJVh-lJhP6nVSktGSuFAF9aXsFNcKRRnJkVfkmc-o8HXS0SGWoCQ5QFI6poI5XB4vZ0I7whVs2-5wYexQLenLusgRcrBzQKtBQuRMhxHxFThBlTGQcCQEQ3mvHwlxYMa5fhnB1nzG0GQS5Nzub76Xv0Zz-HKgQC6za2ZYuXu02w6hovY/s320/4.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: red; font-size: medium;"><i>Attributed to W.S.Reed Company, this is a toy</i></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: red; font-size: medium;"><i>simulating the type of ferry that was utilized between Staten Island </i></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: red; font-size: medium;"><i>and lower Manhattan along with several other larger</i></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: red; font-size: medium;"><i>metropolitan cites. Featured in Antique Toy World Article. July 1991</i></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: red; font-size: medium;"><i>Page 90 </i></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: red; font-size: medium;"><i>Size 13 1/2" / 34.29 cm</i></span></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEilw6qPE2zTX2woFaQgTF-40mLM4NUJ60FsfAAYNTEpubQs0E_8-zvvJPXE9FthRWR_pxC2ZpZL2naVraMHrTanoNSNujuQ2Mh5TLQWVYNtGTRXhZs-dUPBtVMBTWeyXQ1J2QlXlk_I3YW0RGz8uBelIL4mqHd4-RjWT3ZtZRS3-pc6atqSmfJz-fqbTGg/s1495/5.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="685" data-original-width="1495" height="147" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEilw6qPE2zTX2woFaQgTF-40mLM4NUJ60FsfAAYNTEpubQs0E_8-zvvJPXE9FthRWR_pxC2ZpZL2naVraMHrTanoNSNujuQ2Mh5TLQWVYNtGTRXhZs-dUPBtVMBTWeyXQ1J2QlXlk_I3YW0RGz8uBelIL4mqHd4-RjWT3ZtZRS3-pc6atqSmfJz-fqbTGg/s320/5.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: red; font-size: medium;"><i>Circa 1890. Pul toy on wheels.</i></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: red; font-size: medium;"><i>Marked "Pilgrim" on both sides.</i></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: red; font-size: medium;"><i>Simulated (Painted) waves on the bottomsides of the boat.</i></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: red; font-size: medium;"><i>Length: 28" / 71.12 cm</i></span></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgPncmlDfdB-c8CL1RA5SVoFuXbedV1AL-2aYM8sk0a7DE7yLvZUQeRgw6r1PaCs6snI7SUc3HI6kigkyTwAlspufERlJuHBGVns9LL-IJCI7tbUgGfNlS9imFdOW7fcj1Q-ukC4ALZfzw3pnq4yz2yE87vdwpUdzoTNbL6SJVfH8o9nYecGRwwolzEPFg/s1495/6.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="803" data-original-width="1495" height="172" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgPncmlDfdB-c8CL1RA5SVoFuXbedV1AL-2aYM8sk0a7DE7yLvZUQeRgw6r1PaCs6snI7SUc3HI6kigkyTwAlspufERlJuHBGVns9LL-IJCI7tbUgGfNlS9imFdOW7fcj1Q-ukC4ALZfzw3pnq4yz2yE87vdwpUdzoTNbL6SJVfH8o9nYecGRwwolzEPFg/s320/6.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: red; font-size: medium;"><i>Late 19th century. Unmarked, but probably Bliss or Reed.</i></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: red; font-size: medium;"><i>Length: 36" / 91.44 cm</i></span></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjGkrLhIKCod5wfZ1nWJ4tGP_CFPQNEsPm9bmgZPFrwvTHQ6Gf8jD9hfNj69LpjQzPTAjAiUnCU4ZnoWF2_LN9WiAGztPVRKNcsGIIOi8qV7jK9mRFY-JasOVhiN-srRkDyo9nPqDj9VZGqBwvDkqDOuXu8fmqL8jW3XHdbdpxAt5iba818EaUfVMBMwqM/s1495/7.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1113" data-original-width="1495" height="238" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjGkrLhIKCod5wfZ1nWJ4tGP_CFPQNEsPm9bmgZPFrwvTHQ6Gf8jD9hfNj69LpjQzPTAjAiUnCU4ZnoWF2_LN9WiAGztPVRKNcsGIIOi8qV7jK9mRFY-JasOVhiN-srRkDyo9nPqDj9VZGqBwvDkqDOuXu8fmqL8jW3XHdbdpxAt5iba818EaUfVMBMwqM/s320/7.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: red; font-size: medium;"><i>Circa 1908</i></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: red; font-size: medium;"><i>Wind-up motor on the bottom. Has been finished in maroon.</i></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: red; font-size: medium;"><i>Length: 15 1/2" / 39.37 cm</i></span></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #a64d79; font-size: large;"><i>How to search for past auctions of a seller:</i></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><i><div class="separator" style="clear: both; color: #a64d79; font-size: x-large; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; color: #a64d79; font-size: x-large; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEg8xCeX6IcTu8jes4Id9SIFBO7ULtGfO9jF4AtgZmJkJD28ObdWjI7TDdsVKq-r7uzRdbOQQYFNeNpfDiYhJJqP3FZ6WpLpTqoiIz9ZD7f1BezHfjs0Sp_GcDcUJtL8E3PAGQZh3t9GwEpOu4luczQoi6EUJr3aaqwCyM7IbEM6iRGLXfDFE1la1ekfWyQ" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="1053" data-original-width="1430" height="236" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEg8xCeX6IcTu8jes4Id9SIFBO7ULtGfO9jF4AtgZmJkJD28ObdWjI7TDdsVKq-r7uzRdbOQQYFNeNpfDiYhJJqP3FZ6WpLpTqoiIz9ZD7f1BezHfjs0Sp_GcDcUJtL8E3PAGQZh3t9GwEpOu4luczQoi6EUJr3aaqwCyM7IbEM6iRGLXfDFE1la1ekfWyQ" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; color: #a64d79; font-size: x-large; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: red; font-size: medium;">Above:</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: red;">1. Go to </span><span style="color: #6fa8dc; font-family: georgia;">live</span><span><span style="color: red; font-family: georgia;"> </span><span style="color: #ffa400; font-family: courier;">Auctioneers</span><span style="color: #01ffff; font-family: courier;">©</span></span><span style="color: red;"> </span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: red;"><span style="font-size: medium;">2. Search for your auctioneer and enter the name and the year</span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: red;"><span style="font-size: medium;">3. You will see results that vary in content and years</span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: red;"><span style="font-size: medium;">4. Among the results, you will see a range of different years</span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: red;"><span style="font-size: medium;">5. Search for the year that you want</span></span></div></i><i><div class="separator" style="clear: both; color: #a64d79; font-size: x-large; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; color: #a64d79; font-size: x-large; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjaV1_PATBsmRilamkOKEKOF6Nv06VUtWvbb1-WgUg48iFuJmrfOj65xmdrXc1CKx3LhIuALU698COsbsbbNWm1PpLyRlMc2o1j7sV-nYTPPhkwK5YTOSzjZmUoLmp8NkxC1JfqRzT-tn1dqynKptVf3sgahbHMCOpqDq1IfXAeol-t-KCpcLry2batriA" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="1467" data-original-width="1495" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjaV1_PATBsmRilamkOKEKOF6Nv06VUtWvbb1-WgUg48iFuJmrfOj65xmdrXc1CKx3LhIuALU698COsbsbbNWm1PpLyRlMc2o1j7sV-nYTPPhkwK5YTOSzjZmUoLmp8NkxC1JfqRzT-tn1dqynKptVf3sgahbHMCOpqDq1IfXAeol-t-KCpcLry2batriA" width="245" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; color: #a64d79; font-size: x-large; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: red; font-size: medium;">Above:</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: red; font-size: medium;">The arrow is pointing to the year 2016</span></div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: red; font-size: medium;">The interesting points that I was making, is that you will find:</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: red; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: red; font-size: medium;">1. The prices of auctions from the past.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: red; font-size: medium;">2. Find toys that may not be selling right now because </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: red; font-size: medium;">they were very collectible at the time, and now</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: red; font-size: medium;">they are not showing because of their increased value.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; color: #a64d79; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div></i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><i style="color: red;"><span style="font-size: medium;">So that's all for today.</span></i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><i style="color: red;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><i style="color: red;"><span style="font-size: medium;">As always, have a great time of the day or night,</span></i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><i style="color: red;"><span style="font-size: medium;">wherever you may be.</span></i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><i style="color: red;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><i style="color: red;"><span style="font-size: large;">I can always be reached at:</span></i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><i><span style="color: #ffa400; font-size: large;">toysearcher@gmail.com</span></i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><i><span style="color: red; font-size: large;">(my name is Mr. Stacey Bindman)</span></i></div><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><p><span style="color: red; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet;"><i><br /></i></span></span></p>toysearcherhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10535892434954886185noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8159558359997817544.post-24812592855407185802024-01-13T12:57:00.000-08:002024-01-15T11:11:30.168-08:00Revisiting Emerald City Toys<div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #04ff00; font-family: Kalam;">Saturday, January 13, 2024</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #04ff00; font-family: Kalam;">2° Celsius / 35.6° Fahrenheit</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span><span style="color: #04ff00; font-family: Kalam;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span><span style="color: #04ff00; font-family: Kalam;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #04ff00; font-family: Kalam; font-size: large;">A Revisit to Emerald City Toys</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #04ff00; font-family: Kalam; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Kalam;"><span style="color: #04ff00;">A while back, I wrote that I'd be returning to past people and companies to write about them again. And so for today, I'm writing about Emerald City Toys. I'm a few months early for St. Patrick's Day, but I was "itching" to return to writing and blocking. I checked back in my archives, and I first wrote about this fine company back on April 24, 2013. </span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #04ff00; font-family: Kalam;">So for this post, I decided to contact (Mr.) Brooke Larrson to see how he was doing, and mention to him that I would be writing a new post for him.<br /></span><span style="font-family: Kalam;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; color: #04ff00; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; color: #04ff00; text-align: center;">Wow, how the time flies!!!!</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEj5V5JZfHY3_Rq2mlvH7bykbldBsOyhK_RHPE0-lRuvZ-Di5sHw3m1JTyW2MZqI_NyBKFbKuDpe_Bz5vakz3cAI8fOlgxK_MnPaGUz76B_cqoM0HIwLf0scMEFZcZIkpRMEpIOBZkWbwxhU1ynjPuJ0qLedt6_EXLpGm6PkF55rSov7dtzdryy9vbUfPuY" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="269" data-original-width="600" height="143" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEj5V5JZfHY3_Rq2mlvH7bykbldBsOyhK_RHPE0-lRuvZ-Di5sHw3m1JTyW2MZqI_NyBKFbKuDpe_Bz5vakz3cAI8fOlgxK_MnPaGUz76B_cqoM0HIwLf0scMEFZcZIkpRMEpIOBZkWbwxhU1ynjPuJ0qLedt6_EXLpGm6PkF55rSov7dtzdryy9vbUfPuY" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://emeraldcitytoys.com/"><span style="color: red;">Please click here to visit this excellent toy seller</span></a><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; color: #04ff00; text-align: center;">Brooke's website has changed. There are lots of toys for sale, and the photography and descriptions are excellent. It's a great place not only for buying toys, but also for researching for information about toys.</div><br /><br /></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi2-0B9ppWiC28n6rFi94JtOlmsxKY2DitSl7gD1UT9NXgKzA3oXf9RUbCSbQJe8xSwxo-T5Nj8fZjcXVFZykZibBYyt1igVMzLu9N8vH6GNU98WLf3lcGGhS3CL7pAFakLcD-e4RsgTaPk1uT6QPlK5KNUCdYO6vxZ7aeryFlfhZrp-HkacL_VJR9Cg4I/s1200/Screen%20Shot%202024-01-13%20at%2014.08.35.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="903" data-original-width="1200" height="241" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi2-0B9ppWiC28n6rFi94JtOlmsxKY2DitSl7gD1UT9NXgKzA3oXf9RUbCSbQJe8xSwxo-T5Nj8fZjcXVFZykZibBYyt1igVMzLu9N8vH6GNU98WLf3lcGGhS3CL7pAFakLcD-e4RsgTaPk1uT6QPlK5KNUCdYO6vxZ7aeryFlfhZrp-HkacL_VJR9Cg4I/s320/Screen%20Shot%202024-01-13%20at%2014.08.35.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="color: #04ff00; font-family: Kalam;">Above: </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="color: #04ff00; font-family: Kalam;">Manufacturer: JNF (Western Germany) </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="color: #04ff00; font-family: Kalam;">Circa: 1950's</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="color: #04ff00; font-family: Kalam;">"It's a tin friction operated toy. This is a fairly scarce toy in this size, </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="color: #04ff00; font-family: Kalam;">and is not to be confused with the more common 9" version"<br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="color: #04ff00; font-family: Kalam;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="color: #04ff00; font-family: Kalam;">length: 13.25" / 33.65cm</span></div></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjBITZ0xA0-S24BB9aH5-lC36f638HVkvRpo-Fm3F8IQHaK8rHoSG-WYIXgi1w7thADFMRjoqltpn0Xnx3AD_2XHK0sBvgX405xbHw7L1xYdGiQyP-irOQmnxOp1SOI0YhEA-Y7Te56fETaLsaIdk4PfYXuTd6iUX9B2-YzFIByxOZ-r27OqBOZaGByoGA/s1200/Screen%20Shot%202024-01-13%20at%2014.06.21.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="900" data-original-width="1200" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjBITZ0xA0-S24BB9aH5-lC36f638HVkvRpo-Fm3F8IQHaK8rHoSG-WYIXgi1w7thADFMRjoqltpn0Xnx3AD_2XHK0sBvgX405xbHw7L1xYdGiQyP-irOQmnxOp1SOI0YhEA-Y7Te56fETaLsaIdk4PfYXuTd6iUX9B2-YzFIByxOZ-r27OqBOZaGByoGA/s320/Screen%20Shot%202024-01-13%20at%2014.06.21.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #04ff00; font-family: Kalam;">Above: </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #04ff00; font-family: Kalam;">Manufacturer: Lehman (Germany)</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #04ff00; font-family: Kalam;">Circa: 1900's</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #04ff00; font-family: Kalam;">"Clockwork tin toy that propels the cycle while the rider jerks the steering wheel back and forth."</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #04ff00; font-family: Kalam;">Length x height (4.5" x 5" / 11.43 cm x 12.7 cm)</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhcWOzrbHIAGW9ZXDKvVlu5uTyGyGfBHHN5IYUeQSVa_ND0gm5pdC9_2R7dKSghbD2xyf_T_Vrtm_qhEIAk53vewrpF3nQG3quaPMrCc0tI8QGLD06Q_aumyHfTXVo3dS9aw4lvo4V2rJdhlZSrkgqGPMUlLpO0Z5at300RtjpL2J1tInttnUxZj2vcu6c/s1200/Screen%20Shot%202024-01-13%20at%2014.03.08.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="740" data-original-width="1200" height="197" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhcWOzrbHIAGW9ZXDKvVlu5uTyGyGfBHHN5IYUeQSVa_ND0gm5pdC9_2R7dKSghbD2xyf_T_Vrtm_qhEIAk53vewrpF3nQG3quaPMrCc0tI8QGLD06Q_aumyHfTXVo3dS9aw4lvo4V2rJdhlZSrkgqGPMUlLpO0Z5at300RtjpL2J1tInttnUxZj2vcu6c/s320/Screen%20Shot%202024-01-13%20at%2014.03.08.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="color: #04ff00; font-family: Kalam;">Above: </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="color: #04ff00; font-family: Kalam;">Manufacturer: Arcade (USA)</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="color: #04ff00; font-family: Kalam;">Circa: 1930's</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="color: #04ff00; font-family: Kalam;">"Clockwork tin toy that propels the cycle while the rider jerks the steering wheel back and forth."</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="color: #04ff00; font-family: Kalam;">Length: 13" / 33.02 cm</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="color: #04ff00; font-family: Kalam;">"It's an impressive piece of iron and it's a little harder to find than the generic Arcade Mack gasoline truck"</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgB5GFYfcoPLA6OlyutHlIY1k-OSBHAYETUVsm0FW9dCBNjSlNY5uUGKsNAJL340WTvtecJzlBTGHC7XMfhsiuS0CExFA94uWQDFS8CUBRhDwrv9iqukXi0F_6wz6LtFBoC8Hq3sd_yFlQdAC4wz6sai8TVUXwI3zlOu0cAyzGT5m7cqjH-ejqnMae0_y0/s1318/Nomura%20Kosage%201936%20.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="931" data-original-width="1318" height="226" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgB5GFYfcoPLA6OlyutHlIY1k-OSBHAYETUVsm0FW9dCBNjSlNY5uUGKsNAJL340WTvtecJzlBTGHC7XMfhsiuS0CExFA94uWQDFS8CUBRhDwrv9iqukXi0F_6wz6LtFBoC8Hq3sd_yFlQdAC4wz6sai8TVUXwI3zlOu0cAyzGT5m7cqjH-ejqnMae0_y0/s320/Nomura%20Kosage%201936%20.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #04ff00; font-family: Kalam;">Above: </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #04ff00; font-family: Kalam;">Manufacturer: Nomura/Kosuge. </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #04ff00; font-family: Kalam;">1936 Packard four door tin sedan was made in prewar Japan</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #04ff00; font-family: Kalam;">Circa 1936</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #04ff00; font-family: Kalam;">Length: 11" / 27.94 cm</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #04ff00; font-family: Kalam;">"This toy under went a professional, and an absolutely gorgeous restoration many years ago."</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhyfnDW4EYYnX6xegIPx-wN09AiacXPyaAWx55kT5jL1EdJts7IvM-GMeoEK2HzmAEtFvbV9m87eOloZh6SqS6I9ZNyB0ooZgqq3FJJ8prfK2y7A5YA5InRS62B5vCLT1kLNSKtQonLXeM07OhuQ5-iJZO8q7wmkEJ1mhL6t2s7sEdvD2IJkyhpWIXE6c4/s1380/Marx%201932%20tin%20clockwork.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1031" data-original-width="1380" height="239" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhyfnDW4EYYnX6xegIPx-wN09AiacXPyaAWx55kT5jL1EdJts7IvM-GMeoEK2HzmAEtFvbV9m87eOloZh6SqS6I9ZNyB0ooZgqq3FJJ8prfK2y7A5YA5InRS62B5vCLT1kLNSKtQonLXeM07OhuQ5-iJZO8q7wmkEJ1mhL6t2s7sEdvD2IJkyhpWIXE6c4/s320/Marx%201932%20tin%20clockwork.jpg" width="320" /></a></div></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; color: black; font-family: Times;"><span style="color: #04ff00; font-family: Kalam;">Above: </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; color: black; font-family: Times;"><span style="color: #04ff00; font-family: Kalam;">Manufacturer: Marx (USA)</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; color: black; font-family: Times;"><span style="color: #04ff00; font-family: Kalam;">Made in 1932</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; color: black; font-family: Times;"><span style="color: #04ff00; font-family: Kalam;">Lithographed tin clockwork Cadillac</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; color: black; font-family: Times;"><span style="color: #04ff00; font-family: Kalam;">Length: 12"/ 30.48 cm</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; color: black; font-family: Times;"><span style="color: #04ff00; font-family: Kalam;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="color: #04ff00; font-family: Kalam;">So that's it for today. </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="color: #04ff00; font-family: Kalam;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="color: #04ff00; font-family: Kalam;">The weather up here in Montreal,Quebec, Canada has been warmer for December, and it's only snowed heavily twice in 2 months. It's been raining and snowing, so one never knows how to dress!</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="color: #04ff00; font-family: Kalam;">As for the rest of the world, this winter season has been hard! Heavy rains, and </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="color: #04ff00; font-family: Kalam;">below -40° F to -50° C in the Northern Climates of North America.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="color: #04ff00; font-family: Kalam;">In some places, there was lots of rain and even lava flows (Iceland).</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="color: #04ff00; font-family: Kalam;">Take care, and have a great part of the day wherever you may be. </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="color: #04ff00; font-family: Kalam;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="color: #04ff00; font-family: Kalam;">(Mr.) Stacey Bindman</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="color: #04ff00; font-family: Kalam;">I can always be reached at toysearcher@gmail.com</span></div></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #38761d;"><br /></span></div>toysearcherhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10535892434954886185noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8159558359997817544.post-84665537918783627772023-12-31T10:42:00.000-08:002023-12-31T11:26:01.623-08:00The Times They Are a-Changin'<div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: red; font-family: arial;"> </span><span style="color: red; font-family: arial;">Sunday, December 31, 2023</span><span style="color: red; font-family: arial;"> </span></div><div><span style="color: red; font-family: arial;">-3 Celcius / 26.6 F</span></div><div><span style="color: red; font-family: arial;">Overcast with some flurries</span></div><div><span style="color: red; font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhPICG7AH_fCoYfKFdE6AG_kfpt1P_DrO1ZVeeagnc9uHrcMVAEjM8fVM3Ki76OYzk4ioYNPVek7uSgOA8MLRd_l8T4Ga-Nf-oSWOgl3QbSQHof-7IPFMDm3ysTSnPWVzbqTSwqPZ1R58vnLF_E_As7ws7YBMKGKA9io_BL2ILGLZaz27Ib5ShBARdaXiU/s1000/LiveAuctioneersLogo.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="331" data-original-width="1000" height="106" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhPICG7AH_fCoYfKFdE6AG_kfpt1P_DrO1ZVeeagnc9uHrcMVAEjM8fVM3Ki76OYzk4ioYNPVek7uSgOA8MLRd_l8T4Ga-Nf-oSWOgl3QbSQHof-7IPFMDm3ysTSnPWVzbqTSwqPZ1R58vnLF_E_As7ws7YBMKGKA9io_BL2ILGLZaz27Ib5ShBARdaXiU/s320/LiveAuctioneersLogo.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <span style="color: red;">There's a song title by the famous American folk singer, Bob Dylan. The name of the song is</span><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #3d85c6; font-style: italic;">"The Times They Are a-Changin"</span><span style="color: red;">. And so it goes with toys and toy auctions. In the last couple of years, well-known American toy auctioneers have joined an ever-growing auction website by the name </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #eeeeee;">live</span><span style="color: #01ffff;">auctioneers</span><span style="color: red;">. </span><span style="color: red;"> </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: red;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: red;"><span> I haven't contacted the many auctioneers whom have allowed me to write about them, and of course use their excellently-photographed toys at their auction websites. But in the last 2 years, I've noticed that several respected and renowned auctioneers have joined </span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #eeeeee;">live</span><span style="color: #01ffff;">auctioneers</span><span style="color: red;">.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: red;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: red;"><span> Interestingly, many of them still retain and maintain their websites, along with the ability to view their auctions. Bidding takes place on LiveAuctioneers, and I'll have to contact one of the fine American toy auctioneers to see if bidders can still bid on both their websites, as well as on</span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: red;"><span> </span></span><span style="color: #eeeeee;">live</span><span style="color: #01ffff;">auctioneers</span><span style="color: red;">.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: red;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: red;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #eeeeee;">Live</span><span style="color: #01ffff;">auctioneers</span><span style="color: red;"> is a website that has become very popular and has got quite large. It's a website that allows all kinds of different types of auctioneer companies to present their merchandise and auctions there. If you go there, you will see all kinds of different types of merchandise. Naturally, I've only written and presented old and antique toy auctioneers. I've only presented a small number of companies that I've written about, but there are also, many more that you will find on this website.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgjisPUy3IgB3GtNbgJmRZNn0kOwKCpAvW9KanblNjw9SHNLyY3Fd1UV-6MjoJRIwv7qprvfxKp82Z81GNJLYGuB_m9ATA0UITlLKsVd5CH8DuEQwVb0CPiWPJef-ALMXkWeBJtoKtmKYDfKFxaB_D6rqF52SSAXFBEXa80c9E8RfFbAvkIp__P8Jjmqw0/s1280/Bertoia%20Auction%20Logo.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="854" data-original-width="1280" height="214" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgjisPUy3IgB3GtNbgJmRZNn0kOwKCpAvW9KanblNjw9SHNLyY3Fd1UV-6MjoJRIwv7qprvfxKp82Z81GNJLYGuB_m9ATA0UITlLKsVd5CH8DuEQwVb0CPiWPJef-ALMXkWeBJtoKtmKYDfKFxaB_D6rqF52SSAXFBEXa80c9E8RfFbAvkIp__P8Jjmqw0/s320/Bertoia%20Auction%20Logo.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="970" data-original-width="1216" height="255" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjOHEEL1WdIjpO48UVqdZ8hy4diHPluYJ1rxC_9HRGE7rnT3ubTIP2YaqoN9vVIWmsflSypipZyDTmqxmsD-kk5CNH6jy7lEUgNcqBXhh7gmRX4HJtXhggzDw6rw_QF3BkrQtfcj_tgo_7JW5mt0NGVSTB4WjVrCe831Lu0W-WD2R1uVllODpy58cRcqrc/s320/The%20RSL%20Auctions.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #6fa8dc;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #6fa8dc;">CYBER</span><span style="color: white;">TOY</span><span style="color: #6fa8dc;">AUCTIONS</span><span style="color: red;"> is another well-known American auction company that now can be found on </span><span style="color: #eeeeee;">live</span><span style="color: #01ffff;">auctioneers</span><span style="color: red;">. </span><span style="color: red;"> </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh2Td47EmTTCNayWBFW7rYOnTvL5olXQPEvsSIPwUs7OwQ7MB9quVR06M4QSPHH4VzADApROvvCeeWXhogh5Sr0N3d3GHxV-ZD5eDsSDuyMEtRLQ6DOmp3-SKrNaCKmC4Uov7PuLvdp9G1ao7L5qgwErYaLT-06pLC3XPr3x_DV3Wj2CyPHA7is8OtVBWw/s1000/CyberToysAuction.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="982" data-original-width="1000" height="314" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh2Td47EmTTCNayWBFW7rYOnTvL5olXQPEvsSIPwUs7OwQ7MB9quVR06M4QSPHH4VzADApROvvCeeWXhogh5Sr0N3d3GHxV-ZD5eDsSDuyMEtRLQ6DOmp3-SKrNaCKmC4Uov7PuLvdp9G1ao7L5qgwErYaLT-06pLC3XPr3x_DV3Wj2CyPHA7is8OtVBWw/s320/CyberToysAuction.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: red;">The 3 companies shown below happen to be owned by </span><span style="color: #6fa8dc;">CYBER</span><span style="color: white;">TOY</span><span style="color: #6fa8dc;">AUCTIONS</span><span style="color: red;">. </span><span style="color: white;">Old Toy Soldier Auctions USA</span><span style="color: red;">, is a special auction company that specializes in "old toy soldiers". </span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgGbkHXkhgcZr45haidFB_1xLNI5QtkptOMPA16548YlOtqw_8cFx4neX8GMFYlC3a04xrWCRRxW2AiD9FOK5IJdsiyAv-TETorA3ShJdxj874g-01iCnPHvWg9IN5KkDtfHwhXWMSG9cVJmFzdQMoWqC1e2FrTh0SoYNW7-3SUOmov9mS-4n8n0Q82NBE/s1000/OldToySoldiers%20of%20CyberToys.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="790" data-original-width="1000" height="253" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgGbkHXkhgcZr45haidFB_1xLNI5QtkptOMPA16548YlOtqw_8cFx4neX8GMFYlC3a04xrWCRRxW2AiD9FOK5IJdsiyAv-TETorA3ShJdxj874g-01iCnPHvWg9IN5KkDtfHwhXWMSG9cVJmFzdQMoWqC1e2FrTh0SoYNW7-3SUOmov9mS-4n8n0Q82NBE/s320/OldToySoldiers%20of%20CyberToys.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjreMFhJflOnC9Um0ysjhd5g_qbNDJl_Gep-Sqa19EVdlsUul7omVSuCr4MePKCVhRDqhcNXvbsP1bseXtAUpinCibFVHAv8T5uBOkl4Qevm21oXBUgIkwFZeUhGKpeC-shd6dayADVgb7rAIDBe7z_U-0g1ZNNPTjCwOUOh-q-v8mr6owZku6ABxjv6i4/s1000/Ray%20Haradin%20of%20CyberToyAuctions.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="884" data-original-width="1000" height="283" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjreMFhJflOnC9Um0ysjhd5g_qbNDJl_Gep-Sqa19EVdlsUul7omVSuCr4MePKCVhRDqhcNXvbsP1bseXtAUpinCibFVHAv8T5uBOkl4Qevm21oXBUgIkwFZeUhGKpeC-shd6dayADVgb7rAIDBe7z_U-0g1ZNNPTjCwOUOh-q-v8mr6owZku6ABxjv6i4/s320/Ray%20Haradin%20of%20CyberToyAuctions.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi1r_xOfXLCQl-bpi-IIUlNVrXeNMSJ3vYvOkqPHWEppQr4aNsGEFa5SFhftuLQGgMFmzKvaEeM8Z1El5HKiH0vqWIwqlf_t2GH91KZeybnSAdnb0P27RfTMhiiKjtN7ouYai72o-PPSeI3jKDJ8d4kHcSfOvKgoECezH2RjitLxBT5S2zfG6SkKrFEz50/s1000/The%20RSL%20Auction%20of%20CyberToysAuction.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="994" data-original-width="1000" height="318" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi1r_xOfXLCQl-bpi-IIUlNVrXeNMSJ3vYvOkqPHWEppQr4aNsGEFa5SFhftuLQGgMFmzKvaEeM8Z1El5HKiH0vqWIwqlf_t2GH91KZeybnSAdnb0P27RfTMhiiKjtN7ouYai72o-PPSeI3jKDJ8d4kHcSfOvKgoECezH2RjitLxBT5S2zfG6SkKrFEz50/s320/The%20RSL%20Auction%20of%20CyberToysAuction.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: red;">You can go to the </span><span style="color: #eeeeee;">live</span><span style="color: #01ffff;">auctioneers</span><span style="color: red;"> website by clicking on the link below:</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span><a href="https://www.liveauctioneers.com/"><span style="color: #ff00fe;">https://www.liveauctioneers.com/</span></a><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="color: red;">Once you are on the </span><span style="color: #eeeeee;">live</span><span style="color: #01ffff;">auctioneers</span><span style="color: red;"> opening page, you can search for the auctioneers that I've</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="color: red;">listed today, and you will be redirected to any of the companies that I've added to this post today. </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="color: red;">You will also be able to search out for other toy auctioneer companies.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="color: red;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: red;">As always,</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: red;">Thanks for dropping by.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: red;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: red;">Have a great part of the day or night.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: red;">My name is (Mr.) Stacey Bindman</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: red;">and I can always be reached at:</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: red;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: red; font-size: medium;"><i><b>toysearcher@gmail.com</b></i></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: red;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: red;">And one final note:</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: red;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: red;">To all of my readers, thanks for dropping by,</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: red;">and have a Healthy and Happy New Year.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: red;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: red;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><span style="color: red;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="color: red;"><span> </span><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="color: red;"><br /></span></div><br /><span style="color: red; font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="color: red; font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: red; font-family: arial;"> </span><span style="color: red; font-family: arial;"> </span></div><p><span style="color: red; font-family: arial;"><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span></span></p><p><span style="color: red; font-family: arial;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="color: red; font-family: arial;"><br /></span></p>toysearcherhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10535892434954886185noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8159558359997817544.post-60552542414848579772023-12-20T12:29:00.000-08:002023-12-20T12:29:51.234-08:00Blogger Isn't So Hard To Learn<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="color: red; font-family: trebuchet;"><i>Wednesday, December 20, 2023</i></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="color: red; font-family: trebuchet;"><i>32° F / 0° C</i></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="color: red; font-family: trebuchet;"><i>Cloudy</i></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="color: red; font-family: trebuchet;"><i><br /></i></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: red; font-family: trebuchet;"><i><br /></i></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: red; font-family: trebuchet; font-size: large;"><i><b>Why Not Create Your Own Blog?</b></i></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: red; font-family: trebuchet; font-size: large;"><i><b><br /></b></i></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: red; font-family: trebuchet;"><i><b><span> </span>I thought that I would write a different post today. So, today's post is about Blogger and its' parts. </b></i></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: red; font-family: trebuchet;"><i><b>It's quite user-friendly, although it will take you some time to eventually use it. I haven't searched out any websites that have learning how to use Blogger, but I'm sure there are.</b></i></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet;"><i><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; color: red; text-align: center;"><b>You'll have to excuse the quality of my screen-captures. I don't know what's happening, but</b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; color: red; text-align: center;"><b>the quality of the captures is very soft, and you won'y be able to read any writing easily on some screen-captures.</b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; color: red; text-align: center;"><b><br /></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; color: red; text-align: center;"><b>All of the screen-captures are from the first year (2011) </b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; color: red; text-align: center;"><b>August 25, 2011</b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; color: red; text-align: center;"><b><br /></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; color: red; text-align: center;"><b>How the time flies!</b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; color: red; text-align: center;"><b><br /></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; color: red; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; color: red; font-size: x-large; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; color: red; font-size: x-large; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjMO-0nqYFd4e9WeMR714TEUPjzJ7ODiVSHW7ti0MkISUddqzete98A_fUFYuYYuvIfbXSUYsWXAvnmOZEf2NdnRqH3FQvPSwFvbMQ3mtCg6fsH-lSEsSOes-SR2kqp9GmGZDBR3IAVcRFLhl_dzh5Jd5z19PXoDyVX1Sqe4el08zxtmosX20Lpql7RDJA" style="font-family: Times; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="1029" data-original-width="1200" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjMO-0nqYFd4e9WeMR714TEUPjzJ7ODiVSHW7ti0MkISUddqzete98A_fUFYuYYuvIfbXSUYsWXAvnmOZEf2NdnRqH3FQvPSwFvbMQ3mtCg6fsH-lSEsSOes-SR2kqp9GmGZDBR3IAVcRFLhl_dzh5Jd5z19PXoDyVX1Sqe4el08zxtmosX20Lpql7RDJA" width="280" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; color: red; font-size: x-large; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; color: red; text-align: center;"><b>The above image is the opening page of a post.</b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; color: red; text-align: center;"><b><br /></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; color: red; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; color: red; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiMfgrBwtsq2Q1Ky1MZkAqDmp3Xa7w_iNVun06ghzpl0HFZnC7z1nvhK42TdtjppSrCYMNUp4TP-jhErciZcQcsExhGgXTYl1B3PKKu_KGDrJEDXxIsfcoz7uTecbmBMzSjeL8oBM2FILiLuR3qNHVqId5gIqEGFH5H3Plf7t51YB_qNfDcRp5eFp_HgT8/s959/HowtoBlog-4.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="959" data-original-width="610" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiMfgrBwtsq2Q1Ky1MZkAqDmp3Xa7w_iNVun06ghzpl0HFZnC7z1nvhK42TdtjppSrCYMNUp4TP-jhErciZcQcsExhGgXTYl1B3PKKu_KGDrJEDXxIsfcoz7uTecbmBMzSjeL8oBM2FILiLuR3qNHVqId5gIqEGFH5H3Plf7t51YB_qNfDcRp5eFp_HgT8/w255-h400/HowtoBlog-4.jpg" width="255" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; color: red; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; color: red; text-align: center;"><b>The letters and symbols at the top of the above image</b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; color: red; text-align: center;"><b>are the components for writing. </b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; color: red; text-align: center;"><b>You have choices for letters of:</b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; color: red; text-align: center;"><b>1. size</b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; color: red; text-align: center;"><b>2. colour</b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; color: red; text-align: center;"><b>3. Italic or normal</b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; color: red; text-align: center;"><b>4. Bold or normal letter</b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; color: red; text-align: center;"><b>5. Underline</b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; color: red; text-align: center;"><b><br /></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; color: red; text-align: center;"><b>The list to the left of the photos shows you all kinds</b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; color: red; text-align: center;"><b>of different type that you can use.</b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; color: red; text-align: center;"><b><br /></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; color: red; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEge86Uk45_cjnsFSCWL5wjaGHm1iHT5ZpUX5PWWQkCYry452IdNfsEADdEwFo0oGQZY9aMi2QNF97pliqT5y0DRl5kMLtuWHAbcHiv42YekGDMPnTDpmKeG_J1xYP8_zgZV5v9snZVQez42Bf-dyIqX6laVvpPAZcwGmPAQkAwqp_n2IrhfEX5-cXfmvc8/s525/HowtoBlog-3.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="525" data-original-width="279" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEge86Uk45_cjnsFSCWL5wjaGHm1iHT5ZpUX5PWWQkCYry452IdNfsEADdEwFo0oGQZY9aMi2QNF97pliqT5y0DRl5kMLtuWHAbcHiv42YekGDMPnTDpmKeG_J1xYP8_zgZV5v9snZVQez42Bf-dyIqX6laVvpPAZcwGmPAQkAwqp_n2IrhfEX5-cXfmvc8/s320/HowtoBlog-3.jpg" width="170" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; color: red; text-align: center;"><b>Above:</b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; color: red; text-align: center;"><b><br /></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; color: red; text-align: center;"><b>Your choice of the size of the type that you'd like</b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; color: red; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; color: red; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhQIKteXVTrH83sm9pgxMkhrnIUHFHZpI6E9k5tVAZyckLf2Uyko1j94f2H6b9Mkna0hiysyCwFCXg-VDxP0u0ytMqufW2_hDgIe368hNo5ZbZfyi4VVHwFgitnYu8N9FFnQ2uV-4p-dXoROnO_JXAd3zJJ5NN_f_BdT5Viq_128qvyeesV1DpfBvmsY74/s1072/HowtoBlog-5.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1072" data-original-width="714" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhQIKteXVTrH83sm9pgxMkhrnIUHFHZpI6E9k5tVAZyckLf2Uyko1j94f2H6b9Mkna0hiysyCwFCXg-VDxP0u0ytMqufW2_hDgIe368hNo5ZbZfyi4VVHwFgitnYu8N9FFnQ2uV-4p-dXoROnO_JXAd3zJJ5NN_f_BdT5Viq_128qvyeesV1DpfBvmsY74/s320/HowtoBlog-5.jpg" width="213" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; color: red; text-align: center;"><b>The colour (color) selection that</b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; color: red; text-align: center;"><b>you have at your disposal for your type (writing)</b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; color: red; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; color: red; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj9ZODFYeXmVydlJnAZVMPAhweC_anLOlPdD5Fm7YKJSCh9IXtBKPWGJy0I-xWcAaUbtDn_nu82QVYUJhkEGEuh7kiyB8qG5ciGrcsqXGJb7-zNTy40Ac8KYjkaE8ynLeveOZSqgSD33DTG4xZYQ9bBtZRlp04KXIRvUr5R0uGyf_f-fLbKYnq8Cw50JAQ/s1169/HowtoBlog-6.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1025" data-original-width="1169" height="281" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj9ZODFYeXmVydlJnAZVMPAhweC_anLOlPdD5Fm7YKJSCh9IXtBKPWGJy0I-xWcAaUbtDn_nu82QVYUJhkEGEuh7kiyB8qG5ciGrcsqXGJb7-zNTy40Ac8KYjkaE8ynLeveOZSqgSD33DTG4xZYQ9bBtZRlp04KXIRvUr5R0uGyf_f-fLbKYnq8Cw50JAQ/s320/HowtoBlog-6.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; color: red; text-align: center;"><b>Places where you can upload photos from.</b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; color: red; text-align: center;"><b>Of course, I always ask for permission from whomever or wherever</b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; color: red; text-align: center;"><b> I'm going to use their photos.</b></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; color: red; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgHYwwMyt0XJhm-XkqC60kjphtXTItofSU_SP7cIeDwe9l_YUfD2HPbU_8EZQ8twDfCxOCZfi6k2jzkYotu1-ysGIQItONlw-DG3pL99oiUck2ymuhvshkY8jVpT7KobptqdQu4AMJMAL6CXURXTVlgAbQlYpH5H2luX48DwtQvjTXcVcHGve4KmTgUHHU/s794/HowtoBlog-7.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="794" data-original-width="675" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgHYwwMyt0XJhm-XkqC60kjphtXTItofSU_SP7cIeDwe9l_YUfD2HPbU_8EZQ8twDfCxOCZfi6k2jzkYotu1-ysGIQItONlw-DG3pL99oiUck2ymuhvshkY8jVpT7KobptqdQu4AMJMAL6CXURXTVlgAbQlYpH5H2luX48DwtQvjTXcVcHGve4KmTgUHHU/s320/HowtoBlog-7.jpg" width="272" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; color: red; text-align: center;"><b>Above:</b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; color: red; text-align: center;"><b><br /></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; color: red; text-align: center;"><b>This screen-capture shows you how you might want your writing to be position.</b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; color: red; text-align: center;"><b>For today, I selected "Center align"</b></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; color: red; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; color: red; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh16G9lXJPh0VcStc6l0tLwF4aRJOiOlWdhUz-fgbafInKtuhcSoMEDpWY0bERJebRmsak-DIOlILKPrfcG1I8x1sJlhyrczbD4F-UCmfoL39HFhU6Mi98aE-yr1Ia_YWMWNR8G64szV_Z5jBA0SZsNXngqheq5Dy3sFr9jqAoPGJabRC5APLz_lcgcqNU/s1653/HowtoBlog-9.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="858" data-original-width="1653" height="166" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh16G9lXJPh0VcStc6l0tLwF4aRJOiOlWdhUz-fgbafInKtuhcSoMEDpWY0bERJebRmsak-DIOlILKPrfcG1I8x1sJlhyrczbD4F-UCmfoL39HFhU6Mi98aE-yr1Ia_YWMWNR8G64szV_Z5jBA0SZsNXngqheq5Dy3sFr9jqAoPGJabRC5APLz_lcgcqNU/s320/HowtoBlog-9.jpg" width="320" /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: red;">Above: More Options</span></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: red;">The globe (world) icon allows you to select</span></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: red;">all kinds of languages (see below some of these languages)</span></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: red;">to write your blog post.</span></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #0000ee;"><u><br /></u></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; color: red; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh16G9lXJPh0VcStc6l0tLwF4aRJOiOlWdhUz-fgbafInKtuhcSoMEDpWY0bERJebRmsak-DIOlILKPrfcG1I8x1sJlhyrczbD4F-UCmfoL39HFhU6Mi98aE-yr1Ia_YWMWNR8G64szV_Z5jBA0SZsNXngqheq5Dy3sFr9jqAoPGJabRC5APLz_lcgcqNU/s1653/HowtoBlog-9.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"></a><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiqQfCZr_9frZoIzgxcIXEiC0ZS-iHsHjpTdjaC5DjbxE4iWZXS9ugsYJvm6Q2kDkujXS0dz2uOS3k6oJe-2Z3yoq-X7UfiUXVZQsXMPp4qNLCbu5x7O0ZAatpyfdXR-lymW7CvyrdRCU8AKHO4N6OsQkZVMb3GQ2xgyFSqcnpK7wcYZdlsOiLITT1vPeA" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="1497" data-original-width="693" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiqQfCZr_9frZoIzgxcIXEiC0ZS-iHsHjpTdjaC5DjbxE4iWZXS9ugsYJvm6Q2kDkujXS0dz2uOS3k6oJe-2Z3yoq-X7UfiUXVZQsXMPp4qNLCbu5x7O0ZAatpyfdXR-lymW7CvyrdRCU8AKHO4N6OsQkZVMb3GQ2xgyFSqcnpK7wcYZdlsOiLITT1vPeA" width="111" /></a></div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; color: red; text-align: center;"><b>Above:</b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; color: red; text-align: center;"><b>Some of the many different language options to be used</b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; color: red; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; color: red; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh8KgOsgeEExbqqqcLWTvtOUlgHjtlOWEtrIol3lhVXfbVcr-pIMY9wD-blMBqRYzyHKhQXmPUoOFOKCgh6NmS189XWox4smQlG7KzuiXGKEeB7DyB3wfWzEA3TgsF4JmXg5AD7LJ0coxZvchS8jiOXNHdA6lTH72vPisMPfe98BrHIkouaBcoXUDBYvcE/s1258/HowtoBlog-10.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="886" data-original-width="1258" height="225" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh8KgOsgeEExbqqqcLWTvtOUlgHjtlOWEtrIol3lhVXfbVcr-pIMY9wD-blMBqRYzyHKhQXmPUoOFOKCgh6NmS189XWox4smQlG7KzuiXGKEeB7DyB3wfWzEA3TgsF4JmXg5AD7LJ0coxZvchS8jiOXNHdA6lTH72vPisMPfe98BrHIkouaBcoXUDBYvcE/s320/HowtoBlog-10.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; color: red; text-align: center;"><b>Above:</b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; color: red; text-align: center;"><b>I Photoshop all of my images, and those of people </b><b>who allow me to use their photos.</b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; color: red; text-align: center;"><b>Sometimes however, I need to enlarge a photo. So rather than rezie in Photoshop, </b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; color: red; text-align: center;"><b>I can "capture (or highlight in blue) a photo, by then stretch and enlarge it, </b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; color: red; text-align: center;"><b>by placing the arrow or crosshairs anywhere at the pictures sides or </b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; color: red; text-align: center;"><b>bottoms and stretching out the image to a new size.</b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; color: red; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; color: red; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; color: red; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; color: red; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjB2Q4u8jGOnHNu_cBxzeuNR26FuMXq5_9FHs6BEs_8IdVEsq1kc0xuZLLrrvBVuRSEmov2aKxyfS1hsC7CliDFddLKsH_NZZWUeJ7T4nAVvv25CyLYir17UaO7FJ5sufNUZ7o4Nc4sJ2TZvgNYLq0vqxosUA1V6Pl9GYkcSH2tggxageR0X-m2q4MAHvg/s800/HowtoBlog-15.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="713" data-original-width="800" height="285" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjB2Q4u8jGOnHNu_cBxzeuNR26FuMXq5_9FHs6BEs_8IdVEsq1kc0xuZLLrrvBVuRSEmov2aKxyfS1hsC7CliDFddLKsH_NZZWUeJ7T4nAVvv25CyLYir17UaO7FJ5sufNUZ7o4Nc4sJ2TZvgNYLq0vqxosUA1V6Pl9GYkcSH2tggxageR0X-m2q4MAHvg/s320/HowtoBlog-15.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; color: red; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; color: red; text-align: center;"><b>Above: </b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; color: red; text-align: center;"><b>This screen-capture shows you 3 things:</b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; color: red; text-align: center;"><b>1. Pressing "Preview post" allows you to see how the post will look on the Net</b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; color: red; text-align: center;"><b>2. Pressing update saves your content at any point in time. It's a good idea to save</b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; color: red; text-align: center;"><b>your writing several times during any post, in case there's a power failure or any other disruption.</b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; color: red; text-align: center;"><b><br /></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; color: red; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgqnZKifkZ33jTPRU33vY2cTWyyZ_lc9bcgHhVdgLVVIkGRXTp3Ei1pUzS63GIf2s-pe53_3-IYvvNIH4Fx6K7f15s_Y92nUB5eH6YsnquXoQ4Q9fdea1Rr4L3G2iFrvNT7fMe4syu97c2PTnzqZy069YMGZiCfYoLa1z90eWEOgsAm487KkC0dYi6I8c8" style="font-weight: 700; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="313" data-original-width="436" height="230" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgqnZKifkZ33jTPRU33vY2cTWyyZ_lc9bcgHhVdgLVVIkGRXTp3Ei1pUzS63GIf2s-pe53_3-IYvvNIH4Fx6K7f15s_Y92nUB5eH6YsnquXoQ4Q9fdea1Rr4L3G2iFrvNT7fMe4syu97c2PTnzqZy069YMGZiCfYoLa1z90eWEOgsAm487KkC0dYi6I8c8" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; color: red; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; color: red; text-align: center;"><b>Above:</b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; color: red; text-align: center;"><b>Pressing another button will allow you to save your content</b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; color: red; text-align: center;"><b><br /></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; color: red; text-align: center;"><b><br /></b></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; color: red; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhOqUU-uw4JNkFxaRYAs3qiQtG8ZWmqiEsurS0LuYSxeJDZhLvf_j7Wsdbcqs7_UZ2Jot6w8g9-S69uJXvhMJV66T9AOcLUCwPNX7as8FsZZ-pzHCSNrpPcxJQyK-Ln0dp0bZpEyuEACn3D2SaTNj3hEHiZbOHmED_Tlk3tYaIHKXbq-kqfekXSKMNgicw/s604/HowtoBlog-16.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="382" data-original-width="604" height="202" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhOqUU-uw4JNkFxaRYAs3qiQtG8ZWmqiEsurS0LuYSxeJDZhLvf_j7Wsdbcqs7_UZ2Jot6w8g9-S69uJXvhMJV66T9AOcLUCwPNX7as8FsZZ-pzHCSNrpPcxJQyK-Ln0dp0bZpEyuEACn3D2SaTNj3hEHiZbOHmED_Tlk3tYaIHKXbq-kqfekXSKMNgicw/s320/HowtoBlog-16.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; color: red; text-align: center;"><b>Above:</b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; color: red; text-align: center;"><b><br /></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; color: red; text-align: center;"><b>You can upload content from your computer</b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; color: red; text-align: center;"><b>or from Youtube. Of course, you'd need the permission</b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; color: red; text-align: center;"><b>of the person's content on YouTube!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /></b></div><span style="color: #3d85c6; font-size: large;"><b>Speling words wrong will be pickked up by Blogger</b></span><br /><b style="color: red;"><br /></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; color: red; text-align: center;"><b>Blogger also has a "spell-checker".</b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; color: red; text-align: center;"><b>The small red-dotted lines under 2 misspelled words</b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; color: red; text-align: center;"><b>illustrates that I have made 2 spelling errors.</b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; color: red; text-align: center;"><b><br /></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; color: red; text-align: center;"><b><br /></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; color: red; text-align: center;"><b>I'll try and work on another post on Blogger on the weekend.</b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; color: red; text-align: center;"><b><br /></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; color: red; text-align: center;"><b>If you have any suggestions or questions on today's post,</b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; color: red; text-align: center;"><b>please feel free to write to me.</b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; color: red; text-align: center;"><b><br /></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: red;">My e-mail address is </span><span style="color: #3d85c6;">toysearcher@gmail.com</span></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; color: red; font-size: x-large; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; color: red; text-align: center;"><b>As always, thanks for dropping by,</b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; color: red; text-align: center;"><b>And have a great part of the day or </b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; color: red; text-align: center;"><b>night wherever you may be.</b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; color: red; text-align: center;"><b><br /></b></div><b><span style="color: red;">(Mr.) Stacey Bindman</span></b><br /><b style="color: red; font-size: x-large;"><br /></b></i></span></div><br /> <p></p>toysearcherhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10535892434954886185noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8159558359997817544.post-11333817456537246542023-12-04T15:01:00.000-08:002023-12-08T10:14:18.500-08:00Those Magnificent Machines from a Long Time Ago<div style="text-align: justify;"><i><span style="color: red; font-family: georgia;"> Monday, December 4, 2023</span></i></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><i><span style="color: red; font-family: georgia;"> Overcast,</span></i></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><i><span style="color: red; font-family: georgia;"> 27 F -2.77 C</span></i></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><i><span style="color: red; font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="color: red; font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><br /></span></i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="color: red; font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">Those Magnificent Steam Engine Machines</span></i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="color: red; font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">from a Long Time Ago</span></i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="color: red; font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><br /></span></i></div><div style="text-align: left;"><i><span style="color: red; font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: large;"> </span>Whenever I get an e-mail from a reader, I'm always reminded of the 1995 Tom Hanks movie Forrest Gump, for which Tom won an Oscar award for <u>Best Actor</u>. I still remember that famous line in the movie where Forrest is seated at a bus stop and says to the lady seated next to him, "Life is like a box of chocolates, you never know what you are going to get". <br /></span></i></div><div style="text-align: left;"><i><span style="color: red; font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></i></div><div style="text-align: left;"><i><span style="color: red; font-family: georgia;"><span> And so it was with today's post. I received an e-mail from Mr. Richard Rominger, III, asking if I knew something about a specific type of steam engine. The engine was an Empire B-44 D-Cell Electric Engine that would have been produced between 1933-1938.</span><br /></span></i></div><div style="text-align: left;"><i><span style="color: red; font-family: georgia;"><span><br /></span></span></i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span><span style="color: red;"> </span><span style="color: #01ffff;">Richard is searching for that rare B-44 Engine. So if there is anyone out there who has one or knows of someone who has one for sale, could you please contact me. </span></span></span></i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span><span style="color: #01ffff;">I'll then forward the information to Richard.</span><br /></span></span></i></div><div style="text-align: left;"><i><span style="color: red; font-family: georgia;"><span><br /></span></span></i></div><div style="text-align: left;"><i><span style="color: red; font-family: georgia;"><span><span> Unfortunately, I am 99.9% sure that I never ever wrote a post about these most-interesting machines. I called these engines machines because in my humble opinion, I felt that they were made for older children due to their complexity, and their needing care and caution when "working" with them.</span><br /></span></span></i></div><div style="text-align: left;"><i><span style="color: red; font-family: georgia;"><span><span><br /></span></span></span></i></div><div style="text-align: left;"><i><span style="color: red; font-family: georgia;"><span><span><span> Naturally, I wrote Richard back, and said that I did not know anything about these special class of machines, but if he could send me some photos, I would gladly write a post about them.</span><br /></span></span></span></i></div><div style="text-align: left;"><i><span style="color: red; font-family: georgia;"><span><span><span><br /></span></span></span></span></i></div><div style="text-align: left;"><i><span style="color: red; font-family: georgia;"><span><span><span><span> These machines ran on electricity, and would produce heat (steam) by heating up water in an enclosed system.</span></span></span></span></span></i></div><div style="text-align: left;"><i><span style="color: red; font-family: georgia;"><span><span><span><span><br /></span></span></span></span></span></i></div><div style="text-align: left;"><i><span style="color: red; font-family: georgia;"><span><span><span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Below is the cover page of a 1935 Empire</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">(The Metal Ware Corporation) Catalogue</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> <span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span></span></span></span></span></span></i></div><div style="text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgDIl1ivWycCmJ4R6HGqsjC2u6dl_Xz64Ka8Fzz4qy0k38FcHxWgoMSulbw6gsTdjlwyzEXbDoeNr4Pfnf51P6AOlSkwV-YriHzLD2LrwkRf4MqvPdHWjQ8Z_XVM2k3d2iVx8KIyAzuAqzE9X6A3X9zhcSFXjxvvAeSQmpCdoV33qL0bsMeWY7TZ7trWAQ/s1035/NO%20COPYRIGHT-Empire%20Catalogue%20Engine%20Cover-RR3.jpg" style="font-family: georgia; font-style: italic; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1035" data-original-width="798" height="399" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgDIl1ivWycCmJ4R6HGqsjC2u6dl_Xz64Ka8Fzz4qy0k38FcHxWgoMSulbw6gsTdjlwyzEXbDoeNr4Pfnf51P6AOlSkwV-YriHzLD2LrwkRf4MqvPdHWjQ8Z_XVM2k3d2iVx8KIyAzuAqzE9X6A3X9zhcSFXjxvvAeSQmpCdoV33qL0bsMeWY7TZ7trWAQ/w308-h399/NO%20COPYRIGHT-Empire%20Catalogue%20Engine%20Cover-RR3.jpg" width="308" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div><i><span style="color: red; font-family: georgia;">Below are 5 pages from this </span></i></div><div><i><span style="color: red; font-family: georgia;"> excellent catalogue </span></i></div></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiJqw3PAH5PHIxa2QhMycHbUAfcRnhu8dvuhW11YkbpKI4ZZtsmMBUxHCm61fWQ8hyI5G2zqQemTYC7F17rw-08x6cRZguyWcAL4qS4QA-gCjH-2ycun3HXP7LWqiC-o1YW4sCL_n5aPj5eAJFXTX-irReHPAm2nDGZJQqEpWsHFzxhGQZiRyKYrhPgjf0/s1005/NO%20COPYRIGHT-Engine-RR3-P13.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; 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text-align: center;"><span style="color: red; font-size: medium;"><u>I normally add a copyright notice to each and every photo that</u></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: red; font-size: medium;"><u>I use. However, in this case, Richard is not the owner of the of the copyright, and the manufacturer has not been in business for a long time.</u></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: red; font-size: medium;"><u><br /></u></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: red; font-size: medium;"><u>If anyone knows about what happens to copyrights when a company or publisher closes down, please write to me, and give me the information, so that I </u></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: red; font-size: medium;"><u>can share it with others.</u></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: red; font-size: medium;"><u><br /></u></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div></span></span></span></span></i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><b><span style="color: #3d85c6; font-size: x-small;">Above: Dry Cell B32</span></b></i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i><b><span style="color: #3d85c6; font-size: x-small;">1930-1942</span></b></i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="color: #3d85c6; font-size: x-small;"><b>8"x 6"x 6" (20.32 cm x 15.4 cm x 15.4 cm)</b></span></i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="color: #3d85c6;"><b><span style="font-size: x-small;">Dry Cell Battery Supplied Power (4 Volts)</span><br /></b></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiqHJWJjbs1g3ean9JBgdsTOLkc_rOxEtPad0UPE3tcItEwm25_Dc9-fVdJ2kzL_0E92vraq5ebFsFg82BkVCj5FaT0p9MWAOkJeCK5RRzHaqNT8ioxn608d78Vz0CTOMc4C2gFUHCX6303tucn9tVWZQMrCP_oukLWtshUgGwhzfNux8NO98pWKHHW0TE/s1600/Hot%20Air%20B40.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1250" data-original-width="1600" height="439" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiqHJWJjbs1g3ean9JBgdsTOLkc_rOxEtPad0UPE3tcItEwm25_Dc9-fVdJ2kzL_0E92vraq5ebFsFg82BkVCj5FaT0p9MWAOkJeCK5RRzHaqNT8ioxn608d78Vz0CTOMc4C2gFUHCX6303tucn9tVWZQMrCP_oukLWtshUgGwhzfNux8NO98pWKHHW0TE/w563-h439/Hot%20Air%20B40.jpg" width="563" /></a></div></i><i><b><span style="color: #3d85c6; font-size: x-small;">Above: Hot Air B40</span></b></i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="color: #3d85c6; font-size: x-small;"><b>1924-1941</b></span></i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="color: #3d85c6;"><b><span style="font-size: x-small;">12 1/8" x 6 1/4" x 5" (30.8 cm x 15.8.75 cm x12.7 cm)</span><br /></b></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjHWtF832b7NqvkFeF8o_3ASHff6WkGldVvWv7R1YpvsdFLURdgN1hPP3lyDRe75wWczVnOl948yfdRU7JLvLz94oBNDDjNi9sQqN4e8qSrPnDhgfe-DzOPeQZyMYgjkBj5-Gz_FZu6O-tFw6iwYV8weGGn7-KOIVxcpavfraK3txQUei31HGFjl6yjmjM/s1840/Large%20Wheel%20B37.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1840" data-original-width="1400" height="502" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjHWtF832b7NqvkFeF8o_3ASHff6WkGldVvWv7R1YpvsdFLURdgN1hPP3lyDRe75wWczVnOl948yfdRU7JLvLz94oBNDDjNi9sQqN4e8qSrPnDhgfe-DzOPeQZyMYgjkBj5-Gz_FZu6O-tFw6iwYV8weGGn7-KOIVxcpavfraK3txQUei31HGFjl6yjmjM/w382-h502/Large%20Wheel%20B37.jpg" width="382" /></a></div></i><i><b><span style="color: #3d85c6; font-size: x-small;">Above: Large Wheel </span></b></i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="color: #3d85c6; font-size: x-small;"><b>1930-1933</b></span></i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="color: #3d85c6;"><b><span style="font-size: x-small;">15" x 14" x 6" ( 38.1 cm x 35.5 cm x 15.24 cm)</span><br /></b></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiIGYL8gTZelwmW3t_yuTCggGen-r9HODA_AdInL5eKNHPMVB53qpBphO5RZHy58RDR8MIRs1ay7BBlQAfTkfoyCzgUYALHx_g9yDciUGMCDo4AmpGZXSDZp-ObVyw0dlLk6HU3C8elzqn12XrRTvpCt_cWq4Qp5JwL6AjJZGUobEaRF6C-6bQELQJfM-M/s1600/Water%20B43.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1250" data-original-width="1600" height="464" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiIGYL8gTZelwmW3t_yuTCggGen-r9HODA_AdInL5eKNHPMVB53qpBphO5RZHy58RDR8MIRs1ay7BBlQAfTkfoyCzgUYALHx_g9yDciUGMCDo4AmpGZXSDZp-ObVyw0dlLk6HU3C8elzqn12XrRTvpCt_cWq4Qp5JwL6AjJZGUobEaRF6C-6bQELQJfM-M/w594-h464/Water%20B43.jpg" width="594" /></a></div></i><i><b><span style="color: #3d85c6; font-size: x-small;">Above: Dry Cell B32</span></b></i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i><b><span style="color: #3d85c6; font-size: x-small;">1930 - 1942</span></b></i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i><b><span style="color: #3d85c6; font-size: x-small;">8" x 6" x 6" (20.32 cm x 15.25 cmx 15.24 cm </span></b></i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i><b><span style="color: #3d85c6; font-size: x-small;">2 lbs (.907 Kg)</span></b></i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiKkj89zZcZZnv-O_f2sGc8XSCWY6gtQT8x84d-XJbU_SgItzgNGfqYDmHt_p15gGZB5ao2vPqpEdDlDGwyEYKOMnMmEoDo0T06qYu0izbanKWXogMsWm6xwVO2E-A2orsNNCYP7Wr_89eJf-kb7RY1JqNZCXnQAiWyAb6MJc1B_kRWTWa6JeBYtTyjdFE/s1800/Water%20Twin%20B42.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1400" data-original-width="1800" height="352" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiKkj89zZcZZnv-O_f2sGc8XSCWY6gtQT8x84d-XJbU_SgItzgNGfqYDmHt_p15gGZB5ao2vPqpEdDlDGwyEYKOMnMmEoDo0T06qYu0izbanKWXogMsWm6xwVO2E-A2orsNNCYP7Wr_89eJf-kb7RY1JqNZCXnQAiWyAb6MJc1B_kRWTWa6JeBYtTyjdFE/w453-h352/Water%20Twin%20B42.jpg" width="453" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><div style="font-style: normal;"><i><b><span style="color: #3d85c6; font-size: x-small;">Above: Water Twin B42</span></b></i></div><div style="font-style: normal;"><i><b><span style="color: #3d85c6; font-size: x-small;">1926 -1930</span></b></i></div><div style="font-style: normal;"><i><b><span style="color: #3d85c6; font-size: x-small;">9" x 8" x 7" (20.32 cm x 15.25 cmx 15.24 cm </span></b></i></div><div style="font-style: normal;"><i><b><span style="color: #3d85c6; font-size: x-small;">12 lbs (5.44 Kg)</span></b></i></div></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgGZYoGxMLiTnHBpkSe4NYjXhQjqbHBLJwLSs6yZwibb4Wd_jtGFZMcVRAu_QUJ2d8EqWMl1G3B1XDEBVJfNlAuVNZvHFa4GDKZnNI9U6KC57__MYhdKamo6kyxfbQDIhq4pVadlrlec2kk637CFuAwUTd8M6HsZC_Md7_oAld6oaKdpDZEziJavkNfZjM/s1800/Accessories.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1339" data-original-width="1800" height="345" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgGZYoGxMLiTnHBpkSe4NYjXhQjqbHBLJwLSs6yZwibb4Wd_jtGFZMcVRAu_QUJ2d8EqWMl1G3B1XDEBVJfNlAuVNZvHFa4GDKZnNI9U6KC57__MYhdKamo6kyxfbQDIhq4pVadlrlec2kk637CFuAwUTd8M6HsZC_Md7_oAld6oaKdpDZEziJavkNfZjM/w465-h345/Accessories.jpg" width="465" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #3d85c6; font-size: x-small;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #3d85c6; font-size: x-small;"><b>Accessories</b></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #3d85c6; font-size: x-small;"><b>Top Left: 6 1/4" x 4 1/4"</b></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #3d85c6; font-size: x-small;"><b>No. 32 Variable Speed Unit </b></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #3d85c6; font-size: x-small;"><b>1930-1935</b></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #3d85c6; font-size: x-small;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #3d85c6; font-size: x-small;"><b>Top Right:</b></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #3d85c6; font-size: x-small;"><b>6 1/4" x 4 3/4"</b></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #3d85c6; font-size: x-small;"><b>No.50 Water Pump</b></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #3d85c6; font-size: x-small;"><b>1939-?</b></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #3d85c6; font-size: x-small;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #3d85c6; font-size: x-small;"><b>Bottom Middle:</b></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #3d85c6; font-size: x-small;"><b>7" x 5" x 4"</b></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #3d85c6; font-size: x-small;"><b>1/8 scale B34 Windlass Variable Speed Unit</b></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #3d85c6; font-size: x-small;"><b>1930 - 1935</b></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #3d85c6; font-size: x-small;"><b><br /></b></span></div></i><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj3sI5owrLMwPW90W27C8TC_uRHHPp-qW0A7rxDObNWHcxLD8yn1kPl0x5nAsmov7Av9NWmkk906IxkHo1_wFTIwf-29Yh5vpT5lPmyZ7L7oyyju3C-F2qUL1a190zv_LwIuphstLoz6HMVEwt6O-XD99FIqOQY7JmES78J0H-lOFCjpbqOpjBoAfuQsPE/s1640/Water-B31.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1640" data-original-width="1250" height="418" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj3sI5owrLMwPW90W27C8TC_uRHHPp-qW0A7rxDObNWHcxLD8yn1kPl0x5nAsmov7Av9NWmkk906IxkHo1_wFTIwf-29Yh5vpT5lPmyZ7L7oyyju3C-F2qUL1a190zv_LwIuphstLoz6HMVEwt6O-XD99FIqOQY7JmES78J0H-lOFCjpbqOpjBoAfuQsPE/w319-h418/Water-B31.jpg" width="319" /></a></div></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="color: #3d85c6; font-family: georgia; font-size: x-small;"><b>Water B31</b></span></i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="color: #3d85c6; font-family: georgia; font-size: x-small;"><b>1921-1931</b></span></i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="color: #3d85c6; font-family: georgia; font-size: x-small;"><b>7" x 6" x 10" ( 17.8 cm x 14.25 cm x 25.4 cm</b></span></i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="color: #3d85c6; font-family: georgia; font-size: x-small;"><b><br /></b></span></i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #ffa400; font-family: georgia; font-size: x-small;"><b><i>If you want to see one of these machines working, </i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #ffa400; font-family: georgia; font-size: x-small;"><b><i>please go to the address below:</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #ffa400; font-family: georgia; font-size: x-small;"><b><i><br /></i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #ffa400; font-family: georgia; font-size: x-small;"><b><i>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gwQ4umV7rBs</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #ffa400; font-family: georgia; font-size: x-small;"><b><i><br /></i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #ffa400; font-family: georgia; font-size: x-small;"><b><i>Just copy and paste the youtube address,</i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><i><span style="color: red;">Below are 2 additional images that Richard sent me </span></i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><i><span style="color: red;">after he had proofread his post.</span></i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; color: #ffa400; font-size: small; font-weight: bold; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1600" data-original-width="1094" height="374" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjprmzA5tQs8deLaBTyIq1Prit8B21MRp3Vc6NYYEdkJxouxsfE_9tpGTv2uvHQjK1gQVTSolTCIA90hvIfbPBYDo9fY_IGwpdrtPf03YlTmiFJLjlJiLQOtxnHmkReZzgXzRJbdPwH8W_VEY01KB4BuNsxK0x8mzs8WNUQbQ_2YZFpmAAUCfPJJwagXk8/w256-h374/B-32%20Steam%20Engine%20-%20Playthings%20Catalogue.jpg" width="256" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; color: #ffa400; font-size: small; font-weight: bold; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><i style="color: #ffa400; font-size: small; font-weight: bold;"><br /></i></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #ffa400; font-family: georgia; font-size: x-small;"><b><i><br /></i></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: red; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><i>I would like to personally thank Richard for</i></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: red; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><i>sending me so many images and taking the time to scan </i></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: red; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><i>or photograph those 1935 catalogue pages.</i></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: red; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><i><br /></i></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: red; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><i>What an effort!</i></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i style="color: red; font-family: georgia;">In closing,</i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i style="color: red; font-family: georgia;">Have a great part of the day or night wherever you may be,</i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i style="color: red; font-family: georgia;">and by all means, feel free to contact me anytime.</i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i style="color: red; font-family: georgia;"><br /></i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i style="color: red; font-family: georgia;">I can always be reached at:</i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i style="color: red; font-family: georgia;"><br /></i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i style="color: red; font-family: georgia;">toysearcher@gmail.com</i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i style="color: red; font-family: georgia;">and my name is (Mr.) Stacey Bindman</i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><p style="text-align: center;"><br /></p>toysearcherhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10535892434954886185noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8159558359997817544.post-8364164865874414642023-11-24T14:53:00.000-08:002023-11-24T14:53:42.093-08:00A Few Suffragate Toys<div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: red; font-size: medium;">Friday, November 24, 2023</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: red; font-size: medium;">Cloudy and Cold</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: red; font-size: medium;">-6 Celsius / 21.2 Fahrenheit </span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: red; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: red; font-size: medium;"> </span></div><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: red; font-size: large;"> Some Suffragette Toys</span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: red;"><span style="font-size: large;"> </span><span style="font-size: medium;">The Suffragette movement was a movement in the early 20th century that related to women who wanted the right to vote. At the time, women were <b style="font-style: italic; text-decoration-line: underline;">not</b> allowed to vote. The first country to allow women to vote was New Zealand. That was in 1893. Eventually many women in countries worldwide started to march, protest, and pressure legislatures to allow women to vote. The USA Congress passed legislation on June 4, 1919. On August 18, 1920, the legislation was ratified, and the 19th amendment was ratified, granting women in America to vote.</span></span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: red;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span> I was searching the Internet for a topic to write about today, and decided to search out Althof </span></span></span><span style="color: red; font-size: large;">Bergman Bell Toys. I came across one website, and lo and behold, there were several of their toys described as "Patriotic Suffragette toys".</span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: red; font-size: large;"><span> Whoa! Did I just read that? That toys were made to honour women who fought for the right to be allowed to vote? And that's how today's post evolved! I was euphoric, and I learned a great history lesson!! </span><br /></span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: red; font-size: large;"><span><br /></span></span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: large;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; color: red; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiLbiNyVx4w7AVP5O77z1cAHEDSc5ljFoDd2wwLltRKiz__w_MMDefQmlkMrCgGokuqf5rpsRoP017WWRVqROaBvpQCdKQS9HgIZS1N-H2Tm1nceM_gqSzfulQvSkrO-ViJwHShoeBnfO1xgOp-1_XX3sdyunuZvtpdZIALHI2QAIUaLf9VW5ETN9TFB10/s1365/Bertoia.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1256" data-original-width="1365" height="368" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiLbiNyVx4w7AVP5O77z1cAHEDSc5ljFoDd2wwLltRKiz__w_MMDefQmlkMrCgGokuqf5rpsRoP017WWRVqROaBvpQCdKQS9HgIZS1N-H2Tm1nceM_gqSzfulQvSkrO-ViJwHShoeBnfO1xgOp-1_XX3sdyunuZvtpdZIALHI2QAIUaLf9VW5ETN9TFB10/w400-h368/Bertoia.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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There are a few more that were made at the time, and when I have more time, I will look for them.</span><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; color: red; text-align: left;"><span><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; color: red; text-align: center;"><span>So thanks for dropping by,</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; color: red; text-align: center;"><span>And as always,</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; color: red; text-align: center;">have a great part of the day or night,</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; color: red; text-align: center;">wherever you may be.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; color: red; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; color: red; text-align: center;">I can always be reached at:</div><i><b><span style="color: #6fa8dc;">toysearcher@gmail.com</span></b></i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #6fa8dc;"><b><i><br /></i></b></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: red;">My name is (Mr.) Stacey Bindman,</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: red;">and you are always welcome </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: red;">to send questions, or even send me photos of your</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: red;">special toys, that you might want me to write a post.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: red;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: red;"><br /></span><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; color: red; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; color: red; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; color: red; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /></div><br /><br /></div><br /><br /></div><br /><br /></div><br /><br /><p></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span> </span><br /></p><p style="text-align: left;"><br /></p>toysearcherhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10535892434954886185noreply@blogger.com0