A Friend Helps me Out

Friday, May 23, 2014
            Cloudy with rain

A Friend Helps Me Out

I check my email several times a day, and so I was surprised to receive a letter from Mr. Clifford Olsen of Gotham City Toys on ebay. I had made an error (now corrected) in matching up a Hubley catalogue photo with the actual toy. He also sent me 2 interesting photos to compare (please see below) that  are great interest to collectors and sellers alike.

Please click here to visit Clifford Olsen's fine ebay items for sale

The great thing about the Hubley Take-Apart toys was that you could dismantle them and rearrange different top body parts with the respective bottom part. If you go to the link below for m McHoe, another fine seller from Wyoming, USA.

Please click here to visit my previous post about Mr. Red McHoe

The 2 cars above are Hubley cast iron Studebaker roadsters from the 1930's.

Hubley made these toys in 2 sizes - the Stream Model and the Midget Line.

The lengths are 6 3/4" and  5"  ( 172 mm and 127 mm).

Cliff  also sent me the 2 images below which is something I might have known about, but never thought about using the technique with regard to old toys. It's the technique of using "black light" to check for paint retouching of nicks. I believe the technique is one of several used by museums to check for forgeries or a painting redone over another painting. Rembrandt sometimes did this when he didm;t like a painting and simply replanted over it.

The red marks over the violet truck body (above)

are the indicators as to where the retouching or paint over was done to the toy.The person who did the repainting did a very good job, as it's very hard to see the work in the regular photo  (below).

The final great news from Cliff was the fact that he mentioned that he just purchase a nice collection of Tootsietoys that was he will be selling on ebay. 

I can't wait to see what Cliff has for sale!

Thanks for dropping by,

and as always,

have a great part of the day or night, 

wherever you may be,

Stacey

toysearcher@gmail.com

Some Beautiful Cast Iron Toys from A Wyoming Seller

Friday, March 28, 2014
       (Cloudy, snow, then rain)

Some Beautiful Cast Iron Toys

from a Wyoming Seller

   I like to return to people and companies that I've written about to see how they're doing, and to see what new items they have. I wrote to Mr. Red McHoe,  a few days ago,and all was fine, but  Red hadn't much to say about his merchandise. His items though were great, and so I decided to present them.  Red also has a store that sells old toy replacement parts. I'll add both links below Red's logo.

Please click here to visit Red's fine ebay store

Please click here to visit Red's fine toy replacement parts store

   

Red takes nice photos of his items for sale,and that helps me out lots.  When I can work with a well-focussed photo, with good exposure, and proper colour-balance, I am helped out quite a bit. 

You don't see the car and truck carrier too often being offered, and this one is in quite good condition.

This is a nice speedboat . It's called a "pull toy" because a string would be attached to the eyelet at the front of the boat,and then pulled along the sidewalk or road.

Below are a nice trio of very old cast iron toys. They're also in quite good shape for their age.

I always like the take apart toys regardless of the manufacturer. At the time, all of the manufacturers had these take apart toys, with different companies having slightly different ways of dismantling them. In the above Hubley convertible, that steel spring would be moved from the yellow hook, and the top of the car would be able to be removed. MAny of the toy manufacturers would allow for the interchangeability of different toy parts. You could add a truck top or a car top to the lower chassis part.

The arrow is pointing to the actual  photo in the Hubley catalogue

This old baby carriage is great. All of the pieces are intact, and of course, the hood or bonnet of the toy can move to either end of the carriage, just like toe real one of the time.

Thanks for dropping by,

and have a great part of the day or night,

wherever you may be,

Stacey

Please feel free to write to me anytime at:

toysearcher@gmail.com