The Henry Ford (Museum) Revisited

Monday, December 2, 2024

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Revisiting The Henry Ford (Museum)

Please click on this sentence to visit The Henry Ford Museum

I decided to write another post post about The Henry Ford (Museum),

 so I wrote them for their permission.  Within a short time, I received 

permission one of the reference librarians to post again.  

Months ago, I "discovered"  this marvellous website that Mr.Henry Ford created, along with all of the people working for this exceptional resource and museum. 

If I ever go to Detroit Michigan (U.S.A.), the place that I would want to visit is

this fantastic museum, with all of its' different areas for seeing so many different things. I would have to visit the toy museum section, before everything else.

My second choice would be the car section of the museum.

The toy section on the web is very carefully catalogued. I've only used 

the photos and  their descriptions, but  like a library, this museum's

contents have been  carefully sorted and catalogued for reference purposes.

Once again, each and every toy has a vast amount of

detailed information.The Henry Ford (Museum) website would be 

an excellent resource and reference site to research toys.

For this PlaySchool toy, you can see  all of the detail and work that goes into 

classifying each and every toy item in this special toy area of the Museum.

The magnified beetle below is described as follows:

Summary

"Small tin toys were first made during the 1860's, especially in and 

around Nuremburg, Germany. This beetle was made by the 

Lehmann Company, a German manufacturer known for its colorful 

and detailed mechanized tin toys.Winding the clockwork mechanism 

makes this beetle walk and flap its' wings".

The beetle below was made in 1895.

Below

Toy Soldier, 1840-1860

Creator Unknown

Material

Wood (plantMaterial)

Paint (Coating)

Dimensions

Length:  5.625 in  (14.2875 cm)

Width:  2.375  in (6.0325 cm)

Height:   6 in  (15.24 cm)

Below

Toy Airplane 

Date Made: 1948-1950

Manufacturer

Made by All Metal Products (Wyandotte Toys) 

in Wyandotte, Michigan (U.S.A.)

Material

Steel (Alloy)

Cardboard

Color

Blue

Red

Dimensions

Height:  2.5 in. (6.35 cm)

        Width:  10.25 in. (26.035 cm)

Length: 10" (25.4 cm)

So that's it for today.

Thanks for visiting my website, and please visit the 

The Henry Ford Museum. It's a fascinating resource for 

not just toys, but for all kinds of other things (especially cars).

As always, thanks for visiting,

and have a great part of the day or evening,

wherever you may be.

My name is (Mr.) Stacey Bindman

and I  can always be reached atA:

toysearcher@gmail.com

 

 

Can Anyone Please Help to Identify These 2 Toys?

 Saturday, April 9, 2022                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                     

           Can Anyone Please Help Identify These Two Toys

   I received an e-mail about a month ago from a reader. He had sent me photos of these 2 old metal toys, and asked me if I might identify them.  I searched for some time, but could not find  anything.  I would have added this post much earlier, but out of the clear blue, I got sciatica. For those who don't know, it's a "condition" whereby your large left and right sciatic runs from your hip down to your foot. It's quite painful, and you don't know from day-to-day whether or not your condition will improve. I've had it now for 5 weeks, and it's still sore. Hopefully, the pain will go away, but if it doesn't go away it could linger for a few more weeks or for a long time.  

      Dimensions:  

• Biplane
• Wings:   14.5 " (36.8 cm)                             
• Length of airplane: 11"  (27.9 cm)
•   Zeppelin
• 5" wide (12.7 cm)
• Length: 18" 45.7 cm

       

I'm going to be writing to the reader in order to find out the dimensions 

of these 2 toys and will get back to you when I have that information.

In the meantime, if there is anyone out there who knows anything about these 2 toys, 

could you please write to me.

And if you've had sciatica, and healed from it, would you  please tell me what you did 

or your doctor did in order to help. I just hope that I can get back to riding my bicycle, which I do 3-4 times a week around the city of Montreal (Quebec, Canada).   For those who don't know, Montreal has about 500 kilometers (310 miles) of bike paths. I prefer the paths that are not to the side of car roads, but even those are quite safe if you obey the traffic signs and rules.

As always,

Thanks for stopping by, 

And have a great part of the day or night,

wherever you may be.

I can always be reached at:

majortrout@hotmail.com

and my name is : (Mr.) Stacey Bindman