PowerCoupleDeals-Continued

Wednesday, April 17, 2024 

12° C / 53.6° F

Cloudy with Sunny Periods

PowerCoupleDeals 

Continued

Please click this sentence to visit PowerCoupleDeals on ebay

This post is a continuation of a fine ebay store that I introduced to everyone yesterday.

The name of the store is PowerCoupleDeals.

They have lots of categories of merchandise. But what I was looking for were toys,

and I found lots of very nice toys to post and write about.

Some of their photographs have their company name with that scan code icon.

What's great about their store is the fact that there are lots of photos that

present each and every toy very well.

Below:

Vintage Republic Tool Products

 1920's Convertible Car

Pressed Steel Friction Toy

This  USA company existed from 1922-1937

Below:

Vintage Wyandotte Large Pressed Steel

Blue Toytown Estate Car

Length:  21" / 53.34 cm

Below:

Vintage Wyandotte Chrysler Airflow steel with

Camper  Green and wood wheels

HTF. (Hard To Find)

Below:

Daytona Turner or Republic Toy?

Pressed Steel Coupe Car, Rare, 1920's

Length:  20" / 50.8 cm

The last toy that I wanted to show everyone was this beautiful racer,

circa 1948. When I saw this Chad Valley toy,

I know how I would end this post!  

I took 9 excellent photos from Doug & Judy, and placed them

together in a 3 x 3 square composition.

Below:

Chad Valley Harborne  VTG (Vintage) Tin Litho 

Wind-Up #3 Red Racer Excellent Condition Work

Length: 11.5" / 29 cm

Thanks for dropping by,

and as always,

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

A Fantastic Resource for Slush-Cast and Die-Cast Toys

Wednesday, April 10, 2023

9° C / 48.2° F

Overcast with Rain

A Fantastic Resource for

Slush-Cast and Die-Cast Toys

I have to apologize to Mr. Bill Buttaggi for being 

so late in writing this post for him, Bill had sent me months ago, a 

great group of toy photos, but I forgot. I was so busy and excited about reaching

the 1,000,000 reader milestone, that I completely forgot.   At that time, I added many posts, to keep readership looking at all the new posts. Currently the number is  1,007,168 but that is confusing. Although this number is shown as actual visits by people, a Google site (to ask questions and get people to provide answers, told me that the number was "page views"). 

Go figure......!!!!!!!

So today, I'm adding Bill's post.

Please click here to visit Bill Buttaggi's exceptional website

On the website, there is one of his excellent books that

is a great resource for researching die-cast toys.

The screen-captures below show you a sample of what the book 

is all about.

But today's blog post is all about one of 

Bill's favourite group of toys - racing toys.

The photos below are just a "sampling"of some of the

racing toy cars that are on Bill's website. When you go there, there 

will be lots of information and photos to read about.

When you visit Bill's website, you will enter an exceptional place.

The photography is excellent, the design and layout of the site is very professional.

I asked Bill if he had used a professional to design his site and he replied no.

He designed it by himself.

So that's it for today,

Thanks for visiting 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

An Upcoming Exceptional Auction by Bertoia Auctions

Sunday, April  15, 2018
Overcast with freezing 
0 C  32 F

An Upcoming Exceptional

Auction by Bertoia Auctions

Please click here to visit this fine auction

Please click here to visit one of the largest and fine auction websites in the world

Auction Date:
Friday, April 27, 2018

Yesterday, I already posted a nice collection of Popeye toys for sale. These toys are from the same auction that I'm posting about today. The reason for my calling this auction "exceptional", is that many of the toys from this auction are toys that I have not seen before, or that I think I've not seen before. What also is great about this auction is that the photos of these toys are extra-large, so that you can see the fine detail of the toys.

Citroen Au Louvre Delivery Van

Detailed features such as nickel radiator, hand crank for starting the motor

and front axle with functioning steering knuckles.

Hand painted and clockwork driven.

Length:  15"  38 cm

Pinard Open Touring Car

Hand painted clockwork touring car, with

wonderful pin striping, brass door handles, cast metal headlamps and horn.

Length:  14 .5 "  37 cm

Rico Auto-Cars-Turismo Tour Bus

Spanish tour bus, clockwork driven, lithographed driver

and luggage rack on roof. Spare tire missing rubber.

Length:  19"  48.2 cm

Carette Two Seater Car

Classic form of a 1906 German toy luxury auto,

lithographed tin throughout, clockwork driven,

with removeable headlights on the sides. 

Figure and steering wheel missing.

Pinot Boat Tail Open Touring Car

Hand painted French convertible touring car

with large attractive head lamps, detailed fabric

cushions on seats,floral patterns on door handles,

and hand operated horn running from the driver's side to the left fender.

Provenance:  Jack Hubert Collection

Length:  18"  45.7 cm

French Convertible Touring Car

Battery operated head lamps, elaborate brass handles on each of

its two opening doors, a fabric convertible top, glass windshield,

large nickel headlamps mounted on its' hood, Missing front headlamps.

Length:  17"  43.2 cm

Early German Cloth Dirigible

Attributed to Ernest Plank, 

cloth covered body, tin wire frame support, gondola highlighted in red, 

single propeller, clockwork driven.

Circa:  1908

Length:  13.5"  34.3 cm

Tippco (Boxed) Bomber Airplane,

Lithographed tin airplane with bomb graphics

appearing on wings, seated composite pilot, cleverly designed

with lead cap bombs/weights placed under wings and able

to drop when clockwork is activated.

Provenance: Donald Kaufman Collection

Wingspan:  14.5"  36.8 cm

Jep Seaplane with Pontoons

French lithographed tin sea  plane,

Strong clockwork driven motor winds from the cockpit,

features seated composition pilot.

Length:  19"  48.3 cm

Kingsbury (USA) Bi-Wing Airplane

Wind-up motor-driven airplane.

Circa:  1930's

Length:  15"  38 cm

Dent (USA) Tri-Motor Ford Airplane

Includes sample toy tag #493, red paint

with gilt lettering. Second casting.

L x W:  12.5" x 11"   31.8 cm x 28 cm

There are 1,035 lots (items) in this auction, and there are all kinds of toys ranging from motorcycles, airplanes, cars, bicycles, and may interesting items. Due to the high-quality and file size of the images (as well as the  excellent photography), it's well worth it to visit either the Bertoia Auctions website, or Liveauctioneers, where the auction is also listed.

That's it for today.

THanks for dropping by,

and have a grea tpart of the day or night

wherever you may be.

Stacey Bindman

toysearcher@gmail.com

An Excellent E-Bayer Revisited

Monday, February 22, 2016

An Excellent E-Bayer Revisited

   A while back, I was perusing ebay when I was attracted to some nice photography. As I expanded my search, I came across excellent photography, even for low-priced items. Naturally, this had to be a post, and so I wrote Malinda Trollinger for permission.  As it turned out, Malinda was helping sell her father's toy collection and other collectibles that he had amassed over a wide span of time.

   If you've been following me recently, I've been doing a "retrospective", and have been researching old posts to revisit old friends and to write about them. And so for today, I present to you Malinda Trollinger.

Please click here to visit Malinda Trollinger's ebay page

Below:

1934 Tootsietoy Ford Sedan.

Length:  3"  ( 76 mm)

Tootsietoy was a company that rivalled the British Dinky toy company. It was an American company that produced small-sized die cast toys for the market. Cars were especially popular, and with a low price, children could collect many cars to play with. The company existed from the 1920's - 1960's and eventually succumbed to the times, higher labour costs in the USA, and to the Aisian marketplace.

What I like about Malinda's photography jus that even for a lower-priced item, she takes the time and makes the effort to present the toy in its best manner, and to illustrate the features of the toy. 

That's dedication, and  "setting the bar high" 

(an American expression meaning high standards are set).

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

National Products Promotional Pieces

Saturday, February 6, 2016
Partly sunny and cool

National Products

Promotional Pieces

Please click here to visit the Lloyd Ralston Gallery

    If you've been following my posts lately, you'll have read that I'm searching out the upcoming season of auctions. I wrote about Dan Morphy previously, and today, it's about the Lloyd Ralston Gallery. Mr. Lloyd Ralston was a fine auctioneer and sadly passed on much too young in life. His 2 sons now own and manage this fine American toy auction company.

   I found a new company that manufactured what is called a promotional piece. In the 1940's and 1950's car dealerships would  purchase promotional pieces and would hand them up to customers who purchased their cars. Of course, the fathers or mothers would pass these promo pieces to their children who would then play with them. The pieces were made either for car dealerships or for truck dealerships, but in either case, children would have fun playing with these "toys".  Most of the times presented today were die cast  with rubber wheels. Like any other collectible, these promo pieces still are in demand.

I've never seen this particular toy , so seeing it must be a rarity. As to whether this translates into higher p[rices at an action is "another story". It certainly is an interesting piece!

Below is a "promo piece" from a truck company - White.

Back in history, there were hundreds of different car manufacturers. One of them was the Nash Motors. The company was started by the then president of General Motors, Mr.  Charles W. Nash in 1916.

Please click here to read about the Nash Motors Company at Wikipedia

 Below are 2 Buick car promotional pieces. In the bottom car, you can see the trademarked 3 small circles on the side of the car. To this day, this trademark is still used on Buicks, one of the cars that is still being produced after the collapse of GMC in recent history.

The item below was actually cast in bronze - imagine!

Thanks for dropping by,

and as always,

have a great part.

Stacey Bindman

Toysearcher@gmail.com

The Chrysler Airflow

Sunday, January 17, 2016
Partly sunny, -10 Celcius  (14 F)

The Chrysler Airflow

The Ford Edsel is always described as a "dud" and failure. It was a nice car, but never succeeded in the marketplace,and was eventually removed from production. Few people of ever hear of the Chrysler Airflow, but this was also a beautiful car, doomed to fail and be written up in the history books. It was a marvellous car for its' time, but alas, the time was wrong for the car. 1934 was still the Great Depression time, and the public for whatever reasons, aside from money, never were inspired by the car. It was produced for a few years, and sadly laid waste to the scrapheap, and made to be a simple footnote in automobile history.

Below are 3 fine examples of the Airflow made by the Kingsbury toy company (New Hampshire, USA). The Kingsbury company existed from the 1920's-1950's and eventually went out of business. It reincarnated into an ultramodern, state-of-the-art company that is still in business in 

Keene, New Hampshire, USA).

Some of the models  had battery-operated headlights, and as well wind-up movement (clockwork movement), and nickel-plated bumpers and grilles. As well, the cars are quite large for their time, considering that most toy companies produced smaller cars. As well, being the 1930's, cast iron toys of the Chrysler airflow were still being produced.. However, the glorious era of cast iron was soon to be replaced by pressed steel, and  eventually lithographed tin. 

Although the Kingsbury toy company (USA) made many of the cars, the Cor-Cor company also made a few as well. Both companies existed in the 1930's and later, and produced superb pressed steel cars with nice features such as wind-up mechanical movement and electric lights.

Below:

Another fine pressed steel toy made by the Cor-Cor company.

If you do an Internet search for the "Chrysler Airflow", you will bring up many fine photographs of this car. It's too bad that the timing was off in the production of this car otherwise perhaps, and wishfully so,  it might have been more successful.

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