A Very Rare Buddy L Prototype Insurance Patrol w/ Box

Sunday, November 17, 2024

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10° C / 50° F

A Very Rare Buddy L Prototype

Insurance Patrol w/ Box

I've been blogging since January 19, 2011, and what I originally liked from Milestone Auctions was their clean and neat photography.  Soft and diffused lighting is used, and the item (s) for sale are placed on a white base and background (seamless paper).

The owner of  Milestone Auctions is Mr. Miles King, and it was he personally who wrote back and gave me his permission to write about his fine company and to use his photos on my blog.

Please click on this sentence to redirect to the Milestone Auctions on Liveauctioneers

Whenever I'm adding a blog post, I like to visit either the website or the auction site where a collector or a company is selling their merchandise. I start by go through the list of 1629 posts (this post will be the 1630th), and see who I haven't written a post for in a while. 

When I chose Milestone Auctions today,  I was very surprised 

and excited to see a toy that was unique. The description was very exciting 

for myself,  but I'll let you decide. It's not often that you see a toy going to 

auction that is the prototype and was never chosen to be mass produced. 

I wonder why not?

Item Details

Description

"Only known example of the Insurance Patrol with Headlights and Bumper.

Still has Factory Prototype Tag that says "205 C 1928 9 LBS". Truck came

from the Buddy L Morgue Sale. All original with near mint paint and decals.

Still has pull cord and Buddy L tag.This truck was never put into production.

A wonderful addition to even the most advanced collection.

Comes with original Buddy L Box with Blue Stripe Paper. This toy sold at the

Buddy L  Morgue Auction for around $ 40,000. One of the most important

Buddy L Toys there is. 27" Near Mint."

(27" = 68.58 cm)

Thanks for dropping by.

My name is Mr. Stacey Bindman,

and I can always be reached at

toysearcher@gmail.com 

 

A Beautiful Kingsbury Fire Truck up for Auction by Milestone Auctions

Sunday, June 9, 2024

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16° C /60° F

A Beautiful Kingsbury Fire Truck

with the Original Box

Click on the line below to redirect to Milestone Auctions

My usual part of the day writing a blog post began with searching out 

the many different contributors to my blog. I started to search, when I came to 

Milestone Auctions and saw something different. What was amazing was the fact that the 

Kingsbury fire engine came with a "wooden box"!!!!!!!

Whoa, after all those years and this toy was being traded from hand to hand, the original wooden box still was kept together! And I never even knew that Kingsbury toys came with wooden boxes! 

I like to visit Milestone Auctions because they have excellent photography of their items going to auction, and well-written and informative descriptions. 

Description:

KINGSBURY #272 PUMPER FIRE TRUCK w/ BOX

Please Click this sentence to redirect to the Milestone Kingsbury Truck Listing Truck

"Wonderful original Pumper Fire Truck. Has nice paint throughout. Still has original white tires. Version with motor driven pumps that works. Still has original rubber hoses.A great looking Fire Truck. Still has scarce accessory fire hydrant.  Comes with original wooden box. Missing top and 1 panel. A great addition to any collection."

Length:  24 1/5" / 62.23 cm

Below is a screen-capture from ATCA, 

which is The Antique Toy Collectors of America - an exceptional resource for

information on old toys.

The screen-capture below is from a page of a Kingsbury toy catalogue

Click on this sentence to visit the toy catalogue section

Above:

The arrow is pointing to the pumper fire truck that is up for auction.

The screen-capture is from the 1926 Kingsbury catalogue.

It's 2024 right now, and only 2 more years until this toy becomes a centenarian!

 And to the people who currently are bidding on this toy on Liveauctioneers - 

the best of luck to all!

Thanks for dropping by to visit my blog,

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

Everything Counts When Toys are Collected and Auctioned

Saturday, April 20, 2024

11° C  / 52° F

Cloudy with Sunny Periods

Everything Counts When Toys 

are Collected and Auctioned

If you read my blog regularly, you'll know that lately, I've been revisiting 

individual collectors and auction houses. 

One of the companies is

Milestone Auctions

They're a well-respected and renowned Auction Company, because anybody 

dealing with people have to be top-notch, very personable,

and of course knowledgeable.

What I also appreciate from them is their excellent descriptions,

and excellent photography. I sometimes try and

improve photos that are underexposed or overexposed or have some

dust or scratches on the base that the toys are resting on. But with today's

photos there was no need to do anything.

I was searching 2 different auctions that Milestone Auctions had on 2 different times.

April 9, 2022 

January 13, 2024

Both of these toys are very rare, and that is what was a key factor

when the final gavel hammer knock was hit. For myself, the two toys 

from their different auction appeared to me, to have very close 

qualities in terms of the toys themselves.

A more-noticeable difference was something that I never realized 

would be such an important factor in the final price of the 2 different 

auction items. That was the condition of the original boxes that the 2 toys came with.

Below are the auction photos from April 9, 2022

Description

"THE HOLY GRAIL OF POPEYE TOYS" 

Linemar battery operated Popeye and Olive Oyl Tank.

Length:  11" /  27.94 cm

Please click here to visit this Milestone Auction

  

Below are the auction photos from January 13, 2024

Please click here to visit the other Milestone Auction result

If you carefully look at the excellent photos, you

will see that this toy is in very good condition.

     

So that's it for today.

I hope you enjoyed reading this post. It's not often

that I find 2 rare toys in very good condition, but the key

difference in the final winning price was due mostly to the box 

that came with the toy. 

Nevertheless, both final price results were still some of the higher prices

that I've seen while writing.

Thanks for dropping by,

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

 

Milestone Auctions Revisited

Monday, April 15, 2024

13° C / 55° F

Cloud with some sun

Milestone Auctions Revisited

I've been looking through my current 1570 posts, and writing new posts 

for companies from whom I've had the pleasure and their permission 

to write about. One of these excellent companies is Milestone Auctions. 

I wrote on a Sunday just to ask for permission and make contact again,

and within a few hours, I had heard from Miles. 

Wow!  I thought everybody got Sundays off to relax.

Needless to say, Miles replied and said I had the OK to write. Normally, with everyone I write about, and later on, I write first and then send them a notice to see how they are , and top please proofread what I wrote. When this post is up, I'll write back to Miles and thank him and ask for him to proofread the post.

As luck would have it, went I went to Liveauctioneers, which is a service for companies to auction their products or merchandise, and when I typed in 

"Milestone Auctions", and chose a past auction from December 2, 2023,

I found a surprise!  Within this auction were a wonderful set of old toys that had been beautifully restored. 

This was my "Eureka Moment"

 For those who don't know what a Eureka moment is, 

the word Eureka means "I found it". 

When I write back to Miles, I'm going to ask him if he knew the person 

who restored this wonderful set of toys that you see today. When I 

started to write this blog in 2011, I would buy and sell toys. 

Sometimes, I would even restore them. There's a lot of work to restore a toy,

and my restorations were nowhere near these beautiful toys that you see today.

Please click this line to visit this fine auction by Milestone Auctions

(Clicking of the above website address will get you to a new window)

         

Old toys are always great to see, even if they were restored. They still have value albeit the fact that they were "restored". Are they worth less because they were "restored"? Perhaps, but it would depend on who was buying these 

wonderfully-restored toys.

In 100 years from now, these restored toys will be old again, 

and someone will be happy to have them regardless.

Thanks for visiting,

and as always,

Have a great time 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

 

The Times They Are a-Changin'

 Sunday, December 31, 2023                                                                                                         

-3 Celcius / 26.6 F

Overcast with some flurries

    There's a song title by the famous American folk singer, Bob Dylan. The name of the song is

"The Times They Are a-Changin". And so it goes with toys and toy auctions. In the last couple of years, well-known American toy auctioneers have joined an ever-growing auction website by the name 

liveauctioneers.   

    I haven't contacted the many auctioneers whom have allowed me to write about them, and of course use their excellently-photographed toys at their auction websites.  But in the last 2 years, I've noticed that several respected and renowned auctioneers have joined 

liveauctioneers.

    Interestingly, many of them still retain and maintain their websites, along with the ability to view their auctions. Bidding takes place on LiveAuctioneers, and I'll have to contact one of the fine American toy auctioneers to see if bidders can still bid on both their websites, as well as on

 liveauctioneers.

Liveauctioneers is a website that  has become very popular and has got quite large. It's a website that allows all kinds of different types of auctioneer companies to present their merchandise and auctions there. If you go there, you will see all kinds of different types of merchandise. Naturally, I've only written and presented old and antique toy auctioneers.  I've only presented a small number of companies that I've written about, but there are also, many more that you will find on this website.

CYBERTOYAUCTIONS is another well-known American auction company that now can be found on liveauctioneers.   

The 3 companies shown below happen to be owned by CYBERTOYAUCTIONS. Old Toy Soldier Auctions USA, is a special auction company that specializes in "old toy soldiers". 

You can go to the liveauctioneers website by clicking on the link below:

https://www.liveauctioneers.com/

Once you are on the liveauctioneers opening page, you can search for the auctioneers that I've

listed today, and you will be redirected to any of the companies that I've added to this post today. 

You will also be able to search out for other toy auctioneer companies.

As always,

Thanks for dropping by.

Have a great part of the day or night.

My name is (Mr.) Stacey Bindman

and I can always be reached at:

toysearcher@gmail.com

And one final note:

To all of my readers, thanks for dropping by,

and have a Healthy and Happy New Year.

  

                                                                                                           

                                                                                                         

Wonderful Tin Toys from Milestone Auctions

Sunday, May 17, 2020
Sunny with Clouds
19 C 66 F

Wonderful Tin Toys

from

Milestone Auctions

Milestone Auctions is located in Willoughby, Ohio, USA. The company offers multiple services such as organization, photography, and descriptions and information about many different of categories of merchandise that they auction. They are also affiliated with Liveauctioneers.

"Tinplate was used in the manufacture of toys beginning in the mid-19th century. The invention of sheet metal stamping machines in 1815 allowed for the mass production of inexpensive toys. Tin toys were made from thin sheets of steel plated with tin, hence the name tinplate.  Tin toys were a cheap and durable substitute for wooden toys. The toys were originally assembled and painted by hand. Spring activated tin toys originated in Germany in the 1850s.  In the late 1880s offset lithography was used to print designs on tinplate. After the colorful designs were printed on the metal, they were formed by dies and assembled with small tabs. The lightweight nature of the toys allowed them to be shipped less expensively and easier than the heavier cast iron toys.

Germany was the major producer of tin toys in the world in the early 20th century. The most famous German manufacturer of tin toys was Ernst Paul Lehmann who is said to have exported 90% of his toys. France and England joined the fray and it wasn't long before hundreds of thousands of these penny toys were being manufactured."*

Please click here to read more about tin toys in the early 20th century

Hans Eberl

Tin Windup Roll Over Car

Length:  10" 254 mm

Hand painted tin windup Birds on Swing

Birds are weighted and swing around when the toy is operated.

Height:  15" 381 mm

Tin windup Lila Hansome Cab with driver, 2 passengers, 

and a small dog

Height:  6"  152 mm

Lehmann Tin Flywheel "Going to the Fair"

Made in Germany

Length:  6 1/2" 165 mm

Tin Windup that works and plays music

Height:  6 1/2" 165 mm

Lehmann Tin Windup Amphibious Car

Windup Mechanism

Length:  9 1/2"  242 mm

Before today, I hadn't realized that tin toys 

could be so large or in some case so "complicated. 

There's still more learning to be done.

Have a great day or evening.

Stacey Bindman

toysearcher@gmail.com