Antique Toy Cars

Friday, December 8, 2017
Cloudy with sunny periods
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Antique Toy Cars

Please click here to see these wonderful old toy cars

The upcoming auction on December 16-17, 2017 from Morphy Auctions is going to be very interesting in terms of how these old toy  cars are going to be bid upon. Already, some of these  cars have been bid in the 1000's of U.S. dollars. 

I've recently added a few posts about old toy cars from the New Cavendish Books book about 

The 1912 Bing Toy Catalogue.  The reason for those posts was to be able to cross-reference some of today's Bing toy cars with those from the book.

What's interesting to note recently, is that several toy auctioneers have changed their photography style. They've changed from  presenting their toys on a dark background to white. A few years ago, I started to take auctioneer's photos and remove dark backgrounds, and replace them with a white background. I found that this presented toys in their best way, without amy distractions. Bravo to the auctioneers who have refine their photography. 

Below:

German Marklin Hand Painted Open Two Seat Roadster

From the Collection of Investment Rarities Inc. Circa 1905. Blueish green enameled color with excellent accented striping. Open rear tool compartment and a leather-strapped-down rubber spare tire. Original nickel finished lamps and clockwork mechanism. Original driver has a broken and missing left hand. Some flattening and wear to tires. Provenance: Donald Kaufman Collection. A great addition for the serious collector.

Condition: (Excellent-Near Mint).

Below:

German Bing Hand Painted Taxi

From the Collection of Investment Rarities Inc. Very scarce car. Dark maroon coloring with red and black striping. Taxi meter on right side next to the original driver. Original side and front lamps. Nice roof rack and the Bing Bavaria mark on the back. Only the slightest minor wear. 
Condition: (Near Mint).
Item Dimensions: 12 -1/2" x 5 -1/4" (L x H)  /  318 mm x 313 mm

Below:

German Carette Tin Litho Wind up Limousine

From the Collection of Investment Rarities Inc. Circa 1910. Unusually large size variation. Opening doors, nickel head and side lamps, beautifully hand painted original chauffeur and ornate roof rack. Some slight paint loss to wheel spokes. Provenance: Donald Kaufman Collection. 
Condition: (Excellent-Near Mint).
Item Dimensions: 16"  /  405 L.

 Below:

German Bing Hand Painted Clockwork FOur-Seat Auto

From the Collection of Investment Rarities Inc. Circa 1904. Top of the line, deluxe Bing touring car. Hand painted, rubber tires, looks to have original nickel lamps. Extraordinary looking car with beautiful color combination. Some wear behind the front seat and minor wear to fenders. Provenance: Donald Kaufman Collection. 
Condition: (Excellent-Near Mint).
Item Dimensions: 10-3/4" L.

Below:

German Carette Hand Painted Auto in Original Box

From the Collection of Investment Rarities Inc. Beautifully done in cream with red seat, and spoked wheels with rubber tires. Original side and front lamps. The original box has a label on one side, marked "Made in Germany". Nice and crisp with two inside boxes that were for the composition figures. Figures are well detailed and in excellent condition. There is a cardboard trunk on the back which has been added. There is some alligatoring to paint on the floor board and seat. 
Condition: (Excellent-Near Mint).

Below:

German Bing Clockwork Phaeton Auto

From the Collection of Investment Rarities Inc. Four seater car. Hand painted in cream color with nice blue striping, rubber tires, original nickel lamps and lanterns, includes chauffeur. Original "GPN" mark behind rear of front seat. Very little wear. Provenance: Donald Kaufman Collection. 

Length:  13"  330 mm
Condition: (Near Mint).

The last 2 images are interesting from the point-of-view of their being similar in the 

design of both cars. However, the 2 cars were manufactured from 2 different companies. One was by  Carette, and the other by Bing.   You have to look at the 2 cars, and go back and forth in terms of looking for differences between the 2 cars.

1. In the above car, the front lanterns (headlights) 

are lower to the ground that the other car.

2. The above car has 1 driver, a chauffeur, 

while the top car has a driver and passenger.

3. The window frame of the windshield in the above car is 

square with straight lines, while the other car has a square

window frame with rounded corners.

There are some other small differences between the 2 cars, 

but I'll leave  that for you to discover.

If you click on any photo, the photo will enlarge,

 and you will see small images at the bottom of the page. 

Clicking on any of these images will present you with a different and large-sized image.

Thanks for dropping by,

And as always,

Have a great part of the day or night,

Wherever you may be.

Toysesarcher@gmail.com

Stacey Bindman

Another Way to Search My Blog

Saturday, December 3, 2016
Cloud 
2 C 36 F

Another Way to Search 

My Blog

As of this post, I will have written 1450 posts over a period of 5 years. That's a lot of posts, and having to look to the right of my blog page only gives you titles of posts.That's not always interesting to read through titles to find a post that you are interested in.

Below is a screen-capture of  my posts.

As I said, reading titles, and expanding a month to read more titles may not be the moist interesting for some people, including me.

So below is a screen-capture of a suggestion that I have.

Type in the words "oldantiquetoys" and "blog". When you type the words in and press return, the results will come up for the words that you types.

The image below is  a section of the page above.

Click on the word "images", where the red arrow is pointing to.

What will appear are photos that will be from my blog. The search engine may also  result in other peoples' photos appearing.  My photo are usually recognized by the red copyright notice at the bottom of each photo.

Here are the image results when you click on the word "Images".

The screen-capture is the normal image page view size. However, you can reduce the size of the page by pressing (on an Apple computer) "control" and "-".  This will make the viewing page smaller so that you can see many more pictures.

The screen-capture below is a smaller-sized page when the commands "control" and "-" are pressed. You can do this about 3 times in total to get a really small page! On this page, we have many more photos to choose from.

The red arrow is pointing to the image that I want to check on the blog post. It's just an example of a photo that might interest you. You of course, are free to select any image that you want.

This photo is an enlarged image of the previous bus photo. By clicking on the small bus photo, you get this enlarged photo of the bus.

When I clicked on the photo above, I am redirected to the actual post.

This post was written on June 18, 2016. I screen-capturred a portion of the page. You, as the reader can scroll down the page(s) fast to see if you knight be interested in this post.

Below is a screen-capture of the lower part of the post page. 

I scrolled down the page and saw this.

Just to provide more information, I use an iMac by Apple and my browser is Safari. 

My search engine is Google.

Below is the result using the search engine Yahoo. I had to change my previous words of "oldantiquetoys" and blog, and use the full address of my blog: oldantiquetoys.blogspot.com.

I then did search results by pressing "images". The results are quite good in Yahoo as well.

I also reduced the size of the page in order to see more photos.

You can press at the bottom of either Yahoo or Google on the words "see more images".

Google will show more photos because Blogger is part of Google, and all my photos can in fact be used by Google.

I tried the search engine Webcrawler, and was surprised. 

I liked how the photos appeared on the page.

 I pressed on the word "images' on the left side to view the results.

Below are the Webcrawler search results. The photos are more spaced out , so there are less photos per page. I found that this search engine's presentation is easier on the eye, and more relaxing.

Below is a screen-capture result for the search engine Excite. I also find the presentation of the photos on th page easier on the eye, and more relaxing from the usual "compression" of other search engines.

I tried a few more search engines as well. I tried Ask.com (search engine) but it did not have an image search. I also tried Bing.com,and it had the image feature. Not as many images appeared as with Google or Yahoo. I also tried one search engine (name not provided) that didn't give me any results either as a word result or as an image result. There are a few other search engines, and you might be using one or the other. However, for my purposes, I stay with Google, and occasionally will try other search engines. For myself, Google is the best, because as I mention before, it has access to the thousands of photos that I have added to my blog posts.  When you write a blog, Google specifically informs you that they can use my photos. That's part of using blogger, but it's worth it. 

However, having seen the search result page layout for  Webcrawler and Excite, I might do searches from time to time and use them when I'm researching new toys on the Internet.

Please note: Only Google will redirect you to my blog when you press on a photo (image) result. All the other will not - all you results show are the photos. Pressing on a photo simply leads you to a dead end!

I hope that this post will help some of you who prefer visual stimulation compared to written information. If you have any suggestions as to how better to access  a search engine to find my photos, please feel free to write me. 

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

Bing Trains and Accessories

Tuesday, November 29, 2016
Cloud with Rain
2 Celsius  36 Fahrenheit

Bing Trains and Accessories

Please click here to visit this outstanding American Auctioneer

The Bing or Gebruder Bing company was established in 1863 in Nuremberg, Germany in 1863.

Gebruder means brothers in German, and the two brother first started to manufacture metal kitchen utensils such as fine pewter and copper tableware, before starting to produce toys in 1880. At that time, the company was the largest toy factory in the world. They are remembered mostly for their trains and accessories. In the early years, live steam was used to move the trains. In the later years, when electricity was well-developed, train movement was by electricity. Also in the early years, toys were made from steel sheets that were lithographed to imprint colour top the toys. The toys had tabs and slots at their sides, and the tabs were inserted into the slots to assemble the parts. 

The company became a large exporter of toys until WW1 began. After the war, the United States toy manufacturers lobbied the government to  protect the growing US toy industry, and Bing eventually stopped exporting toys because duties rose from 35% to 70%.

By 1927, the Bing company had serious financial problems, and in 1932 the company was in the stage of liquidation of the company, and by 1933 the company went out of business forever. The tooling such as presses and dies were purchased by  Bub, a competitor of the Bing company. 

As for the Bing family, they escaped from Germany to England due to the rise of Hitler and the fascist state. One of the relatives of the brothers (perhaps a son) helped to start up a British toy company by the name of Trix.*

*Citation:  Wikipedia

I decided not to add the written descriptions to the toy of each of the photos. 

If you go to the April 9, 2016 auction at the link below, you will find the well-written and documented descriptions of the toys presented today.

Please click here to visit the April 9, 2016 Bing auction

Thanks for dropping bu,

and as always,

Have a great part of the day or night,

Wherever you may be.

Stacey Bindman

toysearcher@gmail.com

In Case of Rain!

 Sunday, July 27, 2014
 Overcast with rain, thunderstorms

In Case of Rain!

    Being a photographer, you are always paying attention to detail. So when it comes to toys, I'm still looking carefully at toys and trying to find something that I haven;t seen before.. This is related both to finding new toys (old or antique of course!), and interesting details that I also haven't seen before.

I've very fortune to have the opportunity to write about toys from many different source, and one I especially like to write about is Bertoia Auctions. This is a family-run business, and since I started to write about other peoples' or auctioneers listings, the Bertoia family  has helped me front that first time.

   I've started to post about their September 19- 20, 2014 auction. I found their listings on Liveauctioneers, and I'm sure their whole entire catalogue will be up for viewing on their website soon. This item is # 473 listed on the September 19, 2014 portion of the auction. I chose this item of the first 500 items, but there are still so many toys that I haven't seen before and that I will have to write about!

Please click here to see Bertoia Auctions September 19-20, 2014 Auction Items

Please click here to visit this fine American auctioneer's website

The Tourer, as this car was called at the time is an exceptional antique toy. It has a wind-up mechanism to allow it to move, and a nickel handbrake to the right of the driver that links to the right rear plate that rests on the rear tire.

The Tourer is was hand painted, and has remarkable detailing representing the authentic automobile of that era. The embossed seats are beautiful to look at, and there are small red buttons that would have held the richly-piled leather in place. Notice also the bolstering and how it's different in the front (shaped like the letter "m", compared with the back set (the letter "c").

Then there are the nickel parts such as the lamps (as the headlights were called back then), and the handbrake as I mentioned before.

But the "piece-de-resistance", a French expression which simply means exceptional or outstanding,

is the grey item that appears to the right rear of the passenger seat - the umbrella stand! 

If you didn't read the description that Bertoia Auctions write or that I elaborated on, you'll certain see that grey holed vertical item just about the rear fender.

That's the umbrella stand - "in case of rain".

Being a writer of a blog, you always have to remember to finish the story or article and make sure everything makes sense or ties in together. Naturally, I waited until the end to match up the toy part with the title of this post

There just isn't enough time in the day to write about all of the fine toys that I keep discovering!

Thanks for dropping by to visit,

and as always,

have a great part of the day or night,

wherever you may be,

Stacey

So This is a Bing Stove!

Thursday, January 10, 2014
             (Very Cold and Cloudy)

So This is a Bing Stove!

   If you read my blog on a regular basis, you're probably wondering why I have the Uruguay flag below the title of today's post. I got an e-mail From Mr. Marcel from Uruguay 2 days ago. He has a nice Bing stove for sale, and wanted to know what I could estimate the item at. I couldn't because I'm no expert on toys, and there are a lot of factors to consider when pricing. Examples are missing parts, condition of the item, the current market compared to last year or even 5 years ago, and so forth.

   Nevertheless, Marcelo had sent me some excellent photos of details of the Bing stove that I was fascinated with. I always thought that these stoves (even the American ones) were "toys". But Marcelo's photos showed that this item was a working model of a "real" stove. I asked Marcelo to send a few more photos and he did, and so I decided to post today just on this one toy! 

   I couldn't find any stoves in my New Cavendish Books reproduction of the  the Bing 1912 Catalogue. However, I would estimate this stove to be from about that time.

Please click here to view the actual listing on e-bay

Please click here to visit Marcelo Marcos's e-bay home page

The stove covers are missing, and I wrote Marcelo asking if someone makes replacement lids.

The back of the oven is a heat reflector from the wall, and also acts as a holder for pots.

The 4 nickel-plated ( I think they're nickel) are for opening the oven.

Inside there are small burners with wicks, that probably would be filled with alcohol.

The 2 small cranks or knobs to the right view of the stove are to adjust or close the wick areas so that any "fire" is put out.

From this camera angle,you can actually see the rounded covers that are over the wicks.

The 4 round openings would have round covers on them and they would be used for direct heating.

The oval opening to the left would be for heating. 

Notice the flat metal surface that is over the 5th heating element (wick). That would be for placing dishes or small pots for milder warming,rather than direct heating.

In this photograph, you can actually see the the 5 wicks and the assembly for the fuel.

This is a serious stove! The knobs on the right side could be turned to cover the wicks and put out the fires.

Another view of the front of the stove. The handle that goes around 3/4 of the stove protects the cook from getting burned from the stove. As well, when the fire was closed, towels could be hung to dry out.

A back photograph of the stove.

The left sid elf the stove, with the back reflector removed and placed on the stove top.

AUthentic pans and a cover for the stove.

I don;t know what the blue item is.

2 Different views to present 2 of the stove's dimensions.

The from width measures about 400 mm ( 15 3/4"), while the side (depth) measures 

about 270mm or 10 5/8". I'm sure this toy stove was also quite heavy!

Thanks to Marcelo,my new found guest from Uruguay, I now appreciate this Bing toy stove, that actually could be used to cook!

Delicious!

Thanks for visiting,

and have a great part of the day or night,

wherever you may be.

Stacey

toysearcher@gmail.com