Sunday, August 31,2014
Cloudy with occasional rain, warm
Cloudy with occasional rain, warm
Fisher Price Revisited
Bertoia auctions is auctioning a nice collection of early Fisher Price toys. I've already presented a few posts of other fine toys in this collection, but I decided to also present the early Fisher Price toys. In the 1960's I'd watch early morning TV with cartoons on Saturday with my brothers and sister, and you could not watch a program without a Fisher Price advertisement. I always thought the company started up at this time, but whenI wrote my original post, the company had started in the 1930's.
I always have mixed feeling about collections being sold. On the one hand someone got lots of pleasure from collecting, and on the other hand, the collection would now be dismantled. On the positive side, more people, who probably grew up with these toys would now have the opportunity to recollect weigh their early childhood memories.
The early toys were actually fun toys that children would play with. IN the 1960's the advertisement on TV was geared to stimulating your children to learn early childhood skills.
1929
1932
1933
1933
1936
Whoa!
An angry Donald Duck.
I didn't know that there was a Donna Duck.
I just remember Daisy.
1937
1939
1939
1940
What's interesting to see is how these toys have stood up to "the test of time".
Almost all of them are in quite good condition, and I'm sure make sounds.
1948
(The year that I was born)
If you venture over to Liveauctioneers and type in Fisher Price, you'll get to see the rest of the collection up for auction.If you also press "sold", you'll be able to see all of the Fisher Price toys that have been sold and resold over time.
Thanks for visiting,
and as always,
have a great part of the day or night,
wherever you mat be,
Stacey
toysearcher@gmail.com
