Mirror, Mirror, on the Wall....

Wednesday, January 10, 2018
Sunny with light winds
-3 C  26.6 F

Mirror, Mirror, on the Wall,

Who's the  Rarest of them All....

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Alps 1957 Chrysler New Yorker 

“Holy Grail” Japanese Tin Car

$16,000.00

Alps/Iwaya 1957 Chrysler New Yorker 4 Door– “Holy Grail” Japanese Tin Car

Length:  14"  356 mm

"There are tin cars and then there are those that just never come up for sale.  Here we have the “holy grail” of tin car collecting & truly a unique opportunity for a well researched collector.  It is an Alps/Iwaya Chrysler with ORIGINAL box, and in an unheard of color combination.  This is an incredible light blue/teal that is nearly a match to the box art.

Note that the box art actually illustrates a 1958 Chrysler.

Looking inside the window you can see the painstaking attention to woven lithograph seat patterns and realistic details.

The bottom is new new old stock clean and as close to perfect as you can find.  Looking at the top and sides of the car you can see factory uniquenesses and an unrestored near new old stock outside.  Chrome is incredibly shiny.  Windows show the slightest bit of amber, as expected with vintage plastic/celluloid.

This particular toy comes with premier collector provenance.  
Price reflects color, originality, condition, and box."*

*Description courtesy of Antique Toys

Another Old Kenton Toy from Antique Toys

Saturday, December 3, 2016
Sunny with some clouds
-1 C 30 F

Another Old Kenton Toy 

from Antique Toys

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Yesterday morning, I received several e-mails from Mr. J. Edward Sanford.Ed happens to be the owner of Antique Toys, and he and I communicate from time-to-time. In one of his e-mails he sent me photos of a beautiful 1923 Dodge open air touring car made by Kenton in 1923. 

Kenton Dodge Open Air Touring Ca

Painted cast iron with driver

Circa: 1923

Ed found a nice photo opt the "real" Dodge Touring Car from 1923.

If you visit Shorpy.com, you'll find lots of old photos that Shorpy specializes in selling.  Shorpy has purchased many exceptional large-format negatives from which they have made excellent prints from. Large-format negatives are 4" x5" up to 98" x 10". Talking megapixels, a 4" x 5"  scanned negative is probably at 300 dpi (dots per inch, a file size of 100 Mb, while the 8" x 10" @ 300 dpi is about 275-300 Mb. We're talking serious file sizes here, and the detail and quality of these negatives is unsurpassed! THe image below is a small fire screen-captured from their website.

Ed did the research  to find out that the Kenton toy was from a 1923 catalogue. I happen to have the old Kenton catalogues on a CD that I purchased fro ma website a while back. The touring car came in 2 sizes - 9 1/2" (240 mm) and 12" (305 mm).

The photo below is one of the smaller Kenton Dodge Open Air Touring Cars,

 measuring 9 1/2" ( 240 mm). I like this one better that the larger one, because of the nice colouring to it with the yellows, red and blue colours. Also, this one came with a passenger, as well as the chauffeur.

 So that's it for today, a short but sweet post on a nice toy from a fine

American antique toy merchant.

Thanks for  dropping by,

and as always,

Have a great part of the day or night,

Wherever you may be.

Stacey Bindman

toysearcher@gmail.com