A Return Visit to a Great Meccano Resource

Saturday, February 22, 2025

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22° F / -6° C

A Return Visit to a

Great Meccano Resource

I haven't written a post for Mr. Tim Edwards in a long while. His website

titled MeccanoIndex is one of the most informative and resourceful websites

for anyone wanting to research or just visit. The site is about Meccano, 

a famous British company that began in Liverpool, England in 1898. 

The owner of the company was Mr. Frank Hornby. Meccano created

metal construction sets that could be assembled with small wrenches.

It came with nuts and bolts, assorted assembly parts, 

and sometimes even small motors.

Please click on this sentence to redirect to Mr.Tim Edward's exceptional website

Tim Edward's website is literally an Internet library for anyone who wants to learn about Meccano. When I was young (pre-teen years), I had a set of Meccano, and it was great to be able to construct small items such as a house. There was a wide range of different sets with which one could erect something. The larger the 

size of the set of parts, the larger or more elaborate the toy that could be created.

Some sets, if I remember correctly, even had small motors with which to 

have a finished item move. An example could be a car or a Ferris Wheel.

Today's post is a sampling of Meccano magazines from 1925,  a century from 100 years ago! The reason for selecting these magazines is that the artwork is appropriate to Meccano's erector sets. I always liked to draw, but my skills 

were not that great. Looking at the artwork on these magazine covers makes me appreciate the talent that the artists had to draw these wonderful covers.

When you visit Timothy's website and find these magazines, you will be able to

read these magazines from 100 years ago.  The amount of work that

Timothy has put into his website is truly a work of art and an exceptional effort 

to have people learn all about these wonderful erector sets.

I hope you visit this site, because it's fantastic. You'lllearn a lot about The Meccano company, and you'll enjoy seeing so much information and photos that illustrate

what Meccano was all about back then.

So that's it for today. 

Thanks for dropping by to visit, and have a great part of the day or night,

wherever you may be,.

My name is (Mr.) Stacey Bindman, and I can always be reached at

toysearcher@gmail.com

LLoyd Ralston's Upcoming June 21 (2014) Auction - Part I

Wednesday, June 18, 2014
       Variable sun and cloud, cooler

Lloyd Ralston's Upcoming Auction for June 21, 2014

Part I 

   I always like to venture over to the Lloyd Ralston Gallery. They have all kings of toys, and you're able to see 100 items at a time on your screen. Being a blogger, this allows me to find what I'm looking for in a much shorter time. What I saw that was new this time around, was the fact that they have presented their images in a way that you can now see them much larger when magnified. This also is great, because it's easier to work with larger images when I present them against white (which I do in a photo-editing software).

   I decoded to present the upcoming auction in several parts, with today's part being exclusively USA toys. Tomorrow, I'll present a wonderful collection of smaller sized international  (USA and European) toys.

Please click here to visit this nice website

This is a fantastic hand-made custom toy that was made from an Erector kit.

It's superbly made and is in working condition.

I always liked the Tootsietoys, and purchase sand resold many on ebay.

I never could afford the complete vintage sets, and when I see a set, I especially like them.

It's the vintage graphic design and older font set that attracts me to these marvellous toys.

One of these days, I am going to have to speak with the owners of T Reproductions again.  I spoke to them ,then sent a follow-up to ask for their permission, but never heard from them.

The company - T Reproductions, reproduces Buddy L toys  today, as they would have appeared 

70-80 years ago. They are well-crrafted, and have now made their way into the resale market.

A nice pair of Tootsietoy airplanes. 

I recently wrote about the Autogyro airplane from another toy manufacturer. 

The original story of the Autogyro is quite interesting!

Another vintage example of superb toys with classic vintage graphics and font style.

This is quite an eclectic (mixture) of Tootsietoy toys.

THey;re in great shape, and I especially like the small tractors.

 The Barclay toy company made what are called "slush" toys. A slurry of molten metal would be poured into a mould and allowed to harden.  Besides small toy vehicles, the company manufactured figures, and made many soldiers and accessory items during  the War Years.What I also forgot to mention is the nice way that the Ralston Gallery presidents their photos (against a lighter tone). That makes my work so much easier when I present the toys against white.

I'll be working on Part II of this upcoming auction tomorrow, so please take a look, or better still, venture over to the actual website.

Thanks for dropping by,

and as always,

have a great part of the day or night,

wherever you may be.

Stacey

toysearcher@gmail.com