Sooner or Later You'll Arrive at Pinterest

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Sooner or Later You'll

Arrive at Pinterest

    If you do searches for toys on your browser (e.g. Safari or Google), you'll most likely have come across the website of  Pinterest. Pinterest is a site that allows people to "pin" photos that they like and post them ("pin")to their account. Almost all of the "pins" are taken from websites around the Interest without permission. When an image is "pinned", there is a note or credit as to where the image came from.

Please click here to visit the Pinterest website

******* All screen-captures from the Pinterest website*******

I did a search for "cast iron toys", and the screen-capture below illustrates what came up. 

Not all of the images are toys or cast iron. However, there is a good amount to allow you to get an idea as to what a cast-iron toy is.

The image below shows you the sub-categories of your search for "cast iron toy antiques". 

The red arrow is pointing to one of the sub-categories titled "antiques". However,

 if you were to click on this, you would come to a new page with all types of cast iron items, and many would not in fact be antique toys.

The red arrow is pointing to an icon that allows you to send this photo to someone else.

The  pink arrow above is pointing to the save button. When you signed up for Pinterest,  an account was created for you. One of the features is a file folder, allowing you to store and see images that you wanted saved to your account.

The red arrow is pointing to  to an icon that allows you to enlarge the image and see more of it.

The  above blue arrow is pointing to the source of where the image was "captured" from.

Unfortunately, you cannot access the image on the Dan Morphy website, from where the image was "captured". In this case, I'm a little disappointed that Pinterest didn't catch this "minor issue".

The image below show you the enlarged image with the bottom showing. This happened when you pressed on the 4-corner white icon in the previous image is. This is where the red arrow was pointing to.

 The orange  arrow below is pointing to "add photo or note". You can add your own cast-iron toy image or another image here, and you can also comment.

When you press different icons on a Pinterest page, you will see all kinds of cast iron figures similar to the original Popeye character.

When you press another button, all "pins" that are identical or similar to the 

original Popeye toy are presented.

Overall, Pinterest is a very good place to see all kinds of toys. From there, you can be redirected to the original source of the image.  Sometimes, the source will be a blog (e.g. my blog), or an auctioneer, an ebay seller, or a modern manufacturer.

I'm a bit  unhappy that images are "borrowed" without written permission requests. I've seen my own images, as well as images from people who allowed me to use their photos after their permission was granted to me. Unfortunately, this is the 21st century, and that is what the Interest is about.

Below:

The blue and orange old cast iron toy trucks are 2 of my images that I had permission from

 Pook & Pook to use.  I never was asked for permission from the person who pinned", but there is the credit and link back to my blog. At least this is positive- a link to my site, and "free promotion".

Most people may not be aware that their images have been "borrowed", and it's nice to see credit notices as to where the images did come from (without in most cases permission requests).

 Nevertheless, Pinterest does have its' positive attributes for toy aficionados  

and people looking for antique toys.

Pinterest also has an extensive notice about copyright infringement, and I've screen-captured part of their notice below.

Please click here to visit the Pinterest copyright page as seen above

Image screen-captured from the Pinterest website**

Thanks for dropping by,

and as always,

Have a great part of the day or night,

wherever you may be.

Toysearcher@gmail.com

Stacey Bindman

More of Pinterest

Friday, October 21, 2016
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More of Pinterest

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Yesterday, I wrote about Pinterest and how this website was a good website to search for toys. 

However, there are some "quirks" (idiosyncrasies).It's not the end of the world, and you can even find what you are looking for.

Below is a search result that I did for antique toys. Notice that I have added numbers "1" and "2".
It's obvious from the photos, that 2 Pinterest members "borrowed" identical images from the Internet from 2 different sources.

I decided to check the 2 search results.

This is a magnification of the 2 identical photos from 2 different locations of the same toy.

 When I clicked on the #1 image above, an enlargement (below) emerged.

 And when I clicked on the larger above image, I got the result below.
The result is from a very fine and superb website called Pook & Pook.
The minor problem is that the toy was auctioned in 2013, and Pook and Pook probably removed the 
image and descriptions. Their website usually has about 12-16 antique toys for sale at any one time, so I assume they needed space, and removed the toy.

Below is the #2 image from another location.

Once again, when I clicked on the camera photo (above), I was redirected to the photo's owner and website. It turned out to be another great website called Liveauctioneers. Liveauctioneers

is a website that adds hundreds of different types of auctioneers on their website. This is convenient for both auctioneers and potential bidders because many auctioneers  are on one website. This offers  additional promotion to the auctioneers, and the bidders do not have to go to 10 different websites to search for toys or other merchandise.They can look for everything on this one website.

When I clicked on the camel image (above),this is the result that I got. 

And when I clicked on the above image, I got the information below. There was a result of the bidding price, as well  as another toy similar in type. By the way, this type of toy is called a pull toy. A piece of cord would be attached to the front of the pull toy, and as the toy was pulled along the ground or sidewalk, the toy would ring. These toys were very popular in the 1880's-1920's.

When I clicked on the small photo of the boy and the alligator, I obtained an enlargement..

The final judgement for Pinterest is that it's a fine website. However, you have to a lot of work to get excellent photos and excellent descriptions of a specific toy. And if you have a  direct link to any of the larger toy auction companies or toy sellers on ebay, you will get more information on the toy, price estimates or final winner of the toy, and great photos.

It's all a matter of being patient, but you will find out what you are looking for eventually.

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

Finding Toys in all Places (Pinterest)

2016-10-20

Finding Toys in all Places
(Pinterest)

Please click here to visit Pinterest

I'm sure that most of you you know what Pinterest is, but for those who don't I'll explain their website in brief. Pinterest is a website that allows people to screen-capture images on the Internet. Once you have them captured, you can then  place them in you account, or your personal file folders on their website.  Members of Pinterest not only place their newfound toy photos on Pinterest, but will "share" them with their friends.

It's "polite" to add a reference as to where you captured the photo, and most people do. Whether or not the website where the photos are is copyrighted, does;'t seem to bother those who capture images. I've even had to ask people to take off photos that they "captured" from my website. However, this is an endless and fruitless endeavour!

What some people or companies do is add their photos, as well as their link. This is a "smart" idea, because if you're a tell merchant or website,you can have people click on a part of the Pinterest screen, and that will take you to their website.

Unfortunately, not all the screen-captured images on Pinterest are high-quality photographs. However, when a search result comes up with 50 photos at a time, you have the ability to select what most interests you, or choose true best-quality photo.  I'll explain things more, as I write the post.

  When you sign up to Pinterest, Pinterest would like you to add 5 titles to which you have an interest. I only added one - "Antique Toys".  When I sign  in to my Pinterest, there will be some suggestions of your selected category. I have 2 toy above, but one is not old, and the other (Baby Pram) is definitely  old.  If you don't know, my criteria for writing on my blog is to search out pre-1950 old) and true antique toys (at least 100 years old. Everything in between will do (1850-1950).

I decided to click  on the airplane toy to see what might come up.

This screen-capture was the result of clicking on the toy airplane. Of course, the search is not 100% accurate, so some of the photos are not true antiques. The airplane is  modern-era , and the lower-left motorcycle against a red background may not be 1950's or earlier. 1950's. However, some of the other toys are definitely pre-1950. The "BABY DOLL Pram" is, and so is the Levy George (Gely) Motorcycle, and the Tippco motorcycle with Mini and Mickey Mouse (or perhaps just 2 mice).

I did another search for "old toys" and the above are the results.

Most are certainly not pre-1950. Only the black lunchbox and perhaps the toy rattles are pre-1950's.

As for the globe, you could check an enlargement and see what countries on the USSR portion are there. If the USSR is not divided up , as it is today, then it might be an "older" item.

There is another option to find antique toys, 

and that's via "search"in the upper left hand corner.

Above is the result for "antique toy". You're given 2 result options. One is a written result with varied results for the search "antique toy", while the other are "boards". Boards are where a group of people  will post photographs of a certain category of toys. It's basically the same search results and the written results, but these results will be more specific and limiting that the  written results.

I clicked on "antique toys" in the previous photo, and came up with the results above.

Then I clicked on the image of "Spark Plug".

I could have clicked on the above photo to visit Theriault's Antique Doll Auctions, but I didn't. 

Instead, I clicked on the car above, and up popped a car from buddylcars.com

I then clicked on the red fire truck, and got the photo below.

The photo above then offers you 2 choices. One is to click on the writing where the left arrow is,and the other option is to click on the visit button.

Here's the result. The page result is not designed very well, nevertheless, 

I clicked on "Buddy L Trucks" and got the nice truck below.

There is a small amount of information on the Keystone truck above.

I decided to backtrack to the previous Pinterest page, and select another toy. My reason was to search out another toy that had more information about the toy. That's because, I like to provide information about any toy, if I can. 

Clicking on the toy image above, got me more photos of the same toy.

Here's the results.Now I would have the option of selecting from 5 of these cars.

Surely, one of the images would provide me with more information!

THe selected the top first image, and was redirected to ebay. 

This listing had more information. If I needed I'd use the written information if

another location that had given me permission to use their photos, did not have information.

 I decided to go back and  click on the Micky and Mini (Tipp & Co.) Mouse Riding Motorcycle

The enlargement showed me it was from Bertoia Auctions. 

Notice the thorough and well-written description of this toy.

I should have known that this toy was "special". 

The final winning bid was $ 56,050.00 USD

Jackpot!

Lots of photos, well-described, and a very rare toy.

Thanks for visiting,

and as always,

Have a great part of the day or night

Wherever you may be.

Stacey Bindman

toysearcher@gmail.com