A Restored Vintage Schieble Dayton Turner Hillside Roadster Comes to Market

Monday, October  24, 2018
Partly Sunny and Cold
7 Celsius  43 Fahrenheit

A Restored Vintage Schieble Dayton Turner

Hillside Roadster Comes to Market

Mr.Ron Michaud

Please click here to visit Ron Michaud's ebay store

I've been reviewing my previous post lately., and as of today, I have 1178 posts. I decided to return to Mr.Ron Michaud's previous posts, and remembered that he always had nice toys for sale. I even asked him where he always found such nice merchandise. When I went to visit Ron on ebay, he didn't disappoint me. He had nice toys for sale,and those that he had sold recently. I selected a nice toy that was sold recently - a Schieble Dayton Turner Hillside Roadster.

The reasons for having 3 names for the toy description is that the identity of the manufacturer is not identified. In the 1920's, Schieble, Dayton, and Turner all manufacture red similar toys. So without a 100% identity to this nice toy, the 3 manufacturers are used for the description.

Ron takes many photos, and does a fine job with the photography. There was one thing that I wanted to do to place the emphasis on the toy, and diminish the background.  That was, to remove the colour in the background. In this way, the colour of the toy and the toy itself would be more prominent than the grey-toned background. To do this, I "captured the toy", then revered the capture so that the background was not captured.From there, it was a simple matter of desaturating the background to remove the colour.

Description:

Schieble, Dayton, Turner Hillclimber Roadster

Beautiful restoration showing minor wear. Rear flywheel is working,sending the roadster roaring along the floor. Front headlights have been custom attached as seen in the pictures. Graceful lines from the long engine hood to the short rear deck mounted with a stylish spare tire.

From the days when a sporty car was huge.

Circa: 1920's

Length:  18"  454 mm

Below are the before and after photos.

The unaltered photo

 The photo with the background colour removed

The toy restoration is well-done. However, not everyone likes restorations of old toys, but prefer the toys "as found". Other people like their toys restored. THat's it with collectors - different tastes for different people.

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

A Most Beautiful Hill Climber Toy Truck

Monday, May 5, 2014 
   (Cinquo de Mayo)
(Still another day of cloud and rain!)

A Most Beautiful Hill Climber

Toy Truck

   Often, I'll just browse around on the Net to see what there might be for  a future post. Yesterday, I already had  processed 2 sets of photographs for 2 posts later in the week. However the weather was not co-operating, and so I decided to stay inside. I ventured to ebay and came across a very old hill climber up for sale. Upon further investigation, it was being sold by Randys Toy Shop. 

    I've been fortunate to be able to use Randy's fine photographs and knowledge to blog with. 

Randy Ibey not only sells toys, but he repairs them as well. You can find further information at his own website.

Please click here to visit Randy's fine ebay store

Please click here to visit Randy's excellent website

  For those who don'y know, a friction wheel (for a toy) is a mechanism that builds up power as an exterior wheel is moved forward on a hard surface. The more times you move the wheel,the more energy accumulates. As you release the toy finally on the ground, the stored energy will transfer to the wheels, and the toy will move forward. 

  I've written about these toys before, but today's truck presentation is quite nice, and photographed beautifully with all different angles to present it to the viewer or potential buyer. This toy could have been made by Dayton, Cook, or the Schieble company. As a mechanical movement, you don;t see too many of these types of movements. The three companies made used this movement in the 1920's. 

Inside that semi-circular metal case is the flywheel. It's covered so dirt would not enter the gearing mechanism.

This is a nice photo. A low camera angle, combined with a wide-angle lens adds strength to the toy. 

Bu having to look up to the toy, it becomes "bigger".

The driver is a replacement, but certainly fits in well with the time that the toy would have been seen on the streets. The year was 1921, which coincidently was the year (May 29, 1921) that my mother was born.

Thanks for visiting,

and as always, 

have a great part of the day or night, 

wherever you may be.

Stacey

toysearcher@gmail.com