A Surprise from a Lincoln Toy Person

Wednesday, February 3, 2016
Snow, rain and seasonally warm

A Surprise from a 

Lincoln Toy Person

   I forgot to check my Google gmail today, so I just did that. I had a surprise. Mr. Joseph Katzenback  had written to say that he had inherited a play set of Lincoln toys from his late father. Would I be interested in adding this to my blog?  I wrote back right away and said yes, of course.

   Lincoln Toys was a Canadian toy company in the 1950's and early 1960's and produced well-made trucks and farm toys. The toys were produced by a company called Milner Metal Products of Windsor & Tilbury, Ontario, Canada. For those who don't know, Windsor Salt (A large salt company in Canada) is in, of course, Windsor Ontario.

Boxes always make any collectible more valuable, and even the box that Joseph has is in very good shape. For myself, I like the artwork illustration on the top.

THe photo below shows that the toys look as if they were never played with - at least outdoors.

Now this is a "real find" for anyone collecting!

 The next few photos were nicely presented on the tabletop for the photos.

The orange tool is a tiller. Thanks to Bob Walden ( a reader of my blog) I now know what the grey and red implements are. 

The grey item is a planter for seeds, while the red item is called a drag harrow. 
It's for cleaning and levelling the soil.

 I am always amazed at seeing toys from 50-60 or more years ago in such great shape.

And I'm surre Joseph has someone to pass on this "treasure" to be in this same condition for another 50 years.

So that's it for this raining and snowing day!

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 Toy as a Work of Art

Monday, February 10, 2014
             (Cold and Cloudy)

A Toy as a Work of Art

   Earlier last week, I came across a small image of a toy that was up for action. It was a beautifully-photographed item, and I had to stop and investigate further. When I enlarged the photograph it was beautiful - a piece of art of an old American-made Structo pressed steel wind-up tractor. It's probably from the late 1930's-early 1940's.  I wrote the seller ,waited, and I received a reply. I was thanked for the compliment of the photography, and would be allowed to present the photos, but without the owner's name. Some people prefer to remain low key, and I respect that. 

Please enlarge the images of this post to view them best.*

I've written about early Structo toys before, and I really like them. Some of them  came was kits that you'd assemble. But what I like about them is that they've lasted for all these years and appear to be exceptionally well built. The key is missing for this toy, but omen could easily find a replacement on the net. By the way, the toy is about 10" ( 254mm) long.

Of course, I "tried" to present this fine Structo farm tractor better for all to see, 

so here are a few attempts.

I stopped at trying to improve the original photo after 3 "attempts". 

The original photo is a true "work of art" and you just can't improve on that!

Thanks for visiting, 

and as always ,

have a great part of the day or night,

wherever you may be.

Stacey

write to me anytime at

toysearcher@gmail.com