An ebay seller with great photos

Wednesday, April 4, 2018
Rain and Snow
+1 C   35.6 F

An ebay Seller 

With Great Photos

Please click here to visit this fine German (European) ebay seller

I'm always on the search for new toys, when I came across Mr. Heinrich S. Bernd's  

nice selection of 1940's tin wind-up  European toys. What initially caught my eye was that first photo below It's a nice wide-angle photo of a toy placed on the dashboard of the car. Of course,  this is not a recommended place to put anything while driving a car.

I've seen similar toys like the 3 below, and they could be either German, French, or British. 

In fact, the immediate blue car below indicates that it is "Made in Germany", while the last red toy car is in fact a Chad Valley (Great Britain) toy.

Rare large sheet metal toys

Antique 1930 toy metal car with spring motor 

Length: 8 5/8" 22 cm

Tin car with spring motor (wind-up)

Pre-1945 

Length:  9 1/16" 23 cm

Toy sheet metal auto

Pre-1947

Length:  9 7/8" 25 cm

So that's it on this cold and snowy/rainy day.

I hope you're having better weather than me.

Have a great day or evening

Wherever you may be.

Stacey Bindman

Toysearcher@gmail.com

1930's Kingsbury Cars

Friday, February 16, 2018
Overcast with rain
+5 C  41 F

1930's Kingsbury Cars

Please click here to visit this fine Canadian toy-seller & old car literature on ebay

Ken McGee is a highly successful car dealer in Ontario, Canada. 

He also happens to sell toys. However, he one of the items that he specializes in selling, are 

old car manuals. If you had a 1956 Buick, he probably has the instruction manual or could find you one!

In the beginning, the company started out as the  Kingsbury,Wilkins Toy Company in Keene, New Hampshire, USA in 1890. The company produced tin novelties in the 1890's, and later made automotive toys. The name of the company was changed to the Kingsbury Manufacturing Company in 1919.  It manufactured toy pressed-steel cars. Each toy was equipped with a front-end crank for winding the toy's flat spring motor. The 1927 line of cars were Deluxe Custom Built Cars. 

 In 1930, the toy cars had a rear-winding mechanism with battery-operated lights. The company continued making toys until the beginning of WWII. After the war, the tooling (dies) were sold the Keystone Manufacturing Company of Boston, Massachusetts (USA).*

Citation:  pressedsteeltoys.com

I've written about this company and its' toys before. If you click on the web 

address below you will be connected to an older blog post.

Please click here to redirect to a July 2013 post on the Kingsbury Toy Company

1930's Kingsbury Wind Up Roadster

Pressed steel toy wind-up with

battery-operated lights.

Front wheels are steerable

 L x W x H:  12 1/2" x 5" x 4 3/4"   317 mm x 128 mm x 121 mm

1930's Kingsbury Wind-up Brougham Sedan 245 

Wind-up mechanism with battery-operated lights

L x W x H:  12 1/2" x 5" x 5"   317mm  x 128 mm x 128 mm

 1934 Kingsbury Chrysler Airflow Pressed Steel

Win-up mechanism with battery-operated lights

Rubber tires with Kingsbury name on side walls

L x W x H:  14" x  5 1/2" x 4 3/4"   355mm x 140 mm x 121 mm 

1930's Kingsbury Brougham Coupe 344

Pressed steel with wind-up mechanism

Rumble seat opens and closes, front wheels are steerable

L x W x H :   13" x 5" x 4 3/4"   330 mm x 127 mm x 121 mm

Thanks for visiting,

And have a great day.

Stacey Bindman

toysearcher@gmail.com