Mr. Frederick Pals Revisited

Tuesday, October 18, 2016
Cloudy with Rain
23 Celsius  74 Fahrenheit

Mr. Frederick Pals

(ebay store-historical-cars-and-toys-by-freek2012)

Please visit this exceptional ebay seller

    I've been returning to my old posts and checking to see whom I have written about in the past. I haven't catalogued the individuals, companies, and museums who have helped me out, so it't hard to find people or companies from the past. I forgot about Mr. Frederick Pals, but I certainly knew about his fine ebay store, so when I wrote for permission, having mentioned to  Frederick that I had written about him before, hue remembered me, and granted me permission again.

   Frederick always has a marvellous collection of toys for sale in his ebay store, and this time was no exception. But it's his descriptions and photos that are well done. He usually uses a book of toys behind the toy that he is presenting, and the book usually has a photo of the rare toys that he has up for auction in. But  just when I thought that Frederick couldn't improve on his excellent ebay store, I was wrong. He had started to use an ebay company called inkfrog. Inkfrog is a website that redirects ebay viewers to their website.The website then allows you to look at large-sized photos for your convenience and details. With Frederick having an excellent reputation on ebay, and taking excellent photos, the use of  inkfrog has taken him one step better than what he had before for his  

 ebay store.

Below:

A screen-capture of a "typical" introductory photo of a Frederick Pals toy car.

The book is used to illustrate the authenticity and rarity of his rarer toys.

Above:

A screen-capture of an ink frog page. When you click on the larger single photo, the screen changes to an even larger photo with arrows.The arrows allow you to go backwards to view a previous photo, or forwards to see the next photo. These photos are very large, and allow you, the potential client, to view lots of detail of the toy.

Antique Tin Toy, Burnett Wells London Coupe Tco London England

Length x Width:    6 3/4 " x  2 3/4"  175 mm x 71 mm

Above are images that Frederick took for  both  ebay and  ink frog. I made them this size, but if you double-click on the photo, you will be able to see it much larger.

A screen-capture of another toy presented on ink frog.

The photos were under-exposed, but you could see quite well the details of the toy on  ink frog.

All I did below was a minor exposure correction, and changing the grey background to white.

Antique Tin Toy, Pre War (WWII) SF Paris Race Car France Rossignol

Formula 1, Very Rare.

Length: 8 3/4"  222 mm

 It's a real pleasure when I can screen-capture photos, and only have to very slightly improve upon them in Photoshop. This saves me a lot of time, and I use the time more to appreciate Frederick's fine toys, than to write the post!

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

Having Fun with Fantastic Toys - An Introduction

Wednesday, December 18, 2013
               (Very cold in Montreal!)

Having Fun with Fantastic Toys and the Seller

(An Introduction)

   Today's post is somewhat different from my normal post.  I had seen this ebay merchant's toys for a long time. However, what first got my attention is his signature presentation of his toy photographs. He always has a toy book in the background with examples of antique toys. Of course, his merchandise is great and his photography equally matched. I contacted the merchant and Mr. Frederick Pals wrote back. He gave me his permission, and was very interested in how I would work with his photos in Photoshop. I wrote back thanking Frederick, and said that if he wanted, I'd send him a step-by-step series of photos from Photoshop screen-captures to illustrate how I adjust the images. I started out isolating the first toy image of the Carette Limousine, and then decided to "play around" and go one step further. I'd keep Frederick's "trademark" book in the photos,but would remove the colour! When I saw the first result, I was hooked, and decided to continue with more images. However, for today's post, I'm just giving you a "taste", and later in the week, I'll give you the main entree.

Please click here to visit Frederik's Fine ebay Store

The above photo is a typical example of how Frederik presents his merchandise.

                                     

The above photo is the straightforward photo screen-captured from  ebay.  

This is what I usually do - remove the background and the foundation (what the item is resting on).

Here's what I decided to do for today.

I still like a toy presented against a totally white background and foundation.

I find that this best illustrates the toy and its features.

An underside photo of the wind-up (key) mechanism.

The outstanding hand-painted face of the chauffeur.

This is even more "playing around". I still like Frederick's trademark book,

but without the colour. In this photo of the left oblique angle of the car, and the lower camera angle, the true majestic quality of this toy stands out best!

Don't forget that this is just the introductory post, 

and I will add a full post with many toys later in the week.

Thanks for dropping by,

and have a great part of the day or night,

wherever you may be.

Stacey

toysearcher@gmail.com