A Beautiful German Penny Toy

Sunday, April 21, 2024

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A Beautiful German Penny Toy

Yesterday, I finished a post from a new seller on ebay. His store is Stripe4107. 

After I finished the post, I decided to see what else he had in the store. 

I saw some toys that are called German penny toys. I have no idea if they truly cost 1 cent 

back in the 1920's or 1930's, but they were very interesting and I'd never seen them before.

I did some reading on these toys, but I added a link at the end of this post 

to read an excellent article on Wikipedia.

These toys were made from tin metal, and beautifully painted. Most

of these small-sized toys were made in Germany, and the name "Penny Toy" 

was "coined" in Britain because at the time (1885-1914), these toys sold for 1 cent!*

* From the excellent article from Wikipedia

(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Penny_toy)**

** I added a direct link to Wikipedia at the bottom of this post.

Description

German Double Jockey Galloping Toy

Length:  5" / 12.7 cm

Lithographed tin, features articulated gallop motion when clockwork is activated.

Very hard to find a double jockey.

What I personally liked about the toy was the nice colours of the paint.

I decided to look for more information about these most-interesting

and charming toys. I went to Wikipedia and found an excellent article on

these toys.

Please click on this line to redirect to Wikipedia

So as they say in the movie lexicon (vocabulary), when a movie scene is finished:

"That's a wrap"

Thanks for dropping by,

and have a great part of the morning, noon, or evening, 

wherever you may be.

My name is (Mr.) Stacey Bindman

and I can always be contacted at:

toysearcher@gmail.com

Wonderful Tin Toys from Milestone Auctions

Sunday, May 17, 2020
Sunny with Clouds
19 C 66 F

Wonderful Tin Toys

from

Milestone Auctions

Milestone Auctions is located in Willoughby, Ohio, USA. The company offers multiple services such as organization, photography, and descriptions and information about many different of categories of merchandise that they auction. They are also affiliated with Liveauctioneers.

"Tinplate was used in the manufacture of toys beginning in the mid-19th century. The invention of sheet metal stamping machines in 1815 allowed for the mass production of inexpensive toys. Tin toys were made from thin sheets of steel plated with tin, hence the name tinplate.  Tin toys were a cheap and durable substitute for wooden toys. The toys were originally assembled and painted by hand. Spring activated tin toys originated in Germany in the 1850s.  In the late 1880s offset lithography was used to print designs on tinplate. After the colorful designs were printed on the metal, they were formed by dies and assembled with small tabs. The lightweight nature of the toys allowed them to be shipped less expensively and easier than the heavier cast iron toys.

Germany was the major producer of tin toys in the world in the early 20th century. The most famous German manufacturer of tin toys was Ernst Paul Lehmann who is said to have exported 90% of his toys. France and England joined the fray and it wasn't long before hundreds of thousands of these penny toys were being manufactured."*

Please click here to read more about tin toys in the early 20th century

Hans Eberl

Tin Windup Roll Over Car

Length:  10" 254 mm

Hand painted tin windup Birds on Swing

Birds are weighted and swing around when the toy is operated.

Height:  15" 381 mm

Tin windup Lila Hansome Cab with driver, 2 passengers, 

and a small dog

Height:  6"  152 mm

Lehmann Tin Flywheel "Going to the Fair"

Made in Germany

Length:  6 1/2" 165 mm

Tin Windup that works and plays music

Height:  6 1/2" 165 mm

Lehmann Tin Windup Amphibious Car

Windup Mechanism

Length:  9 1/2"  242 mm

Before today, I hadn't realized that tin toys 

could be so large or in some case so "complicated. 

There's still more learning to be done.

Have a great day or evening.

Stacey Bindman

toysearcher@gmail.com

Kidd Family Auction

Wednesday, May 20, 2020
Sunny with Clear Skies
22 C   72 22 F

The Kidd Family Auction Company

I was searching for "wind-up tin toys" on Liveauctioneers, when I came across some nice-looking toys. As it turned out, the toys were from a Canadian auction company right next to Quebec, where I live. The Kidd  Family Auctions company happens to be in Ontario. Needless to say, I wrote to them, and obtained permission to share their photos with you.

Their toy auction is coming up on June 19, 2020.

The Kidd family lives in Shelburne, Ontario, while I live in Montreal, Quebec.

It's about  a 6 1/2 hour drive from Montreal.

Our Story

Kidd Family Auctions is a business with a down home family feel. It’s owned and operated by Dennis Kidd. Dennis graduated from Southwestern Ontario School of Auctioneering in 1995. He was accredited by the CPPA to offer appraisal services. In the past 25 years Dennis has worked with many different auction companies at hundreds of sales.   IN FEBRUARY OF 2017 DENNIS WAS APPOINTED AS A DIRECTOR OF THE AUCTIONEERS ASSOCIATION OF ONTARIO!

In early 2015 Dennis formed Kidd Family Auctions. The staff team consists of three generations of Kidds and hand-picked, capable staff members. This is a photo of the original staff in 1995. The current team has tripled in size but the down home feel has never changed.

We have experience with a wide range of auctions stemming from our background in farming and extending to a variety of other industries. Kidd Family Auctions is partnered with iCollector, Wavebid, The Auction Advertiser, The Woodbridge Advertiser and the Auctioneers Association of Ontario.

Auctions are meant to be fun, exciting and entertaining. We invite you to come on out.  Have a coffee, have a laugh and bid, bid, bid!! You can have confidence in our focus on honesty and our desire to understand your specific situation as a bidder or a consignor. Dennis’ auction family is always growing. Let us treat you like family too.

Please click here to visit the Kidd Family Auctions on the Liveauctiongroup

Please click here to visit their web site

S.Y. Vintage Mechanical Walking Robot with Spark 

With Original Box

Made in Japan

Circa: 1960-1969

Manufacturer: Marx

Tin Lithographed

Key wind-up Mechanism

Length x Width:  

12" x 3" 

305 mm x 76 mm 

Die-Cast Vehicle with Batman & Robin Figures

Made in China

Vintage Tin Rescue Chopper

Made in Japan

Lithographed Tin / Plastic

Manufacturer: Kashiwai (Lucky Toy) # 3623

Friction power motor

Circa: 1980's

Vintage Tin Sheriff's Car

Friction wheel motion (not working)

Made in Japan

Length x Width x Height:  

5 3/4" x 2 1/2" x4 1/2".  145 mm x 64 mm x 104 mm

Circa 1960's

Manufacturer: Unique Art

Wind-up mechanism 

Titled: G.I. Joe and the K-9 Pups

Circa 1940's

This is  quite a  popular tin toy 

A Wonderful Disney Mickey Mouse

Dial Phone 

As you can see, the Kidd Family Auctions happen to auction other things, 

including this nice leather saddle.

An old Party Line Telephone

Northern Electric

Circa 1930's

Old Brass Blow Torch

Circa 1930's-and later

If you're not interested in toys, you can always check out their other auction.

As you can see from above, there are always non-toy very 

interesting items that come to an auction!

It was interesting to see that you can find old toys almost anywhere you would go.

So the next time you're on vacation, and it's a rainy day,

why not ask a local person if there any antique stores or even an auction company.

Because you never know what you may find - ANYWHERE!

Thanks for dropping by,

and have a great part

of the day or night,

wherever you may be,

toysearcher@gmail.com

Stacey Bindman

Wow! 6 George Brown Toys in one Auction!

Tuesday, May 5, 2020
Sunny with clouds
8 C  46 F

Please click here to visit Bertoia Auctions Superb Website

Please click here to visit Bertoia Auctions on Liveauctioneers.com

It's not often that. one sees 6 George Brown toys in one place at the same time. So, I decided to add this blog. As you read this, the actual auction is going on on Liveauctioneers.com

"George Brown was originally a clockmaker.

The George W. Brown and Company was established in 1856 (USA). They produced both mechanical and non-mechanical toys as well as clocks, and built a successful business. When oil was discovered in  Titusville Pennsylvania in 1862, George Brown decided to go into the lamp-making business.  The crude oil was made into kerosene, that would fuel the oil lamps."*

* Quoted from The George Brown Toy Sketchbook, The Pin Press, Princeton, 1971

I purposely added this blog, since these toys come from the auction on Liveauctioneers for Bertoia Auctions. When I have more time, I will edit this post, and add more interesting material about the George Brown Company and of course, George Brown.

I just discovered that if you click on any photo below while reading any blog post, 

the picture will enlarge (get bigger) to show the toys much better.

Toys of Times Past Latest Auction

Friday,  April 27, 2018
Sunny with clouds
10 C  50 F

Toys of Times Past

Latest Auction

Please click here to visit this fine auctioneer's latest auction

The recent trend in toy sellers has been to use large-sized auction companies to sell their toys.

Toys of Times Past has now decided to use Invaluable as their auctioneer to auction their toys. When you press the "please click" line, you will in fact be redirected to the auction on the Invaluable website.

I've selected only toys from a Japanese company by the name of ALPS. Like many toys companies in Japan, after WWII, the Alps company was founded in 1948. The company was founded by a man by the name of Mr. Kuramochi Shoten, who had been an employee of another company by the name of CK.The ALPS company produced mechanical tin plate toys such as toy cars, space toys, and moving wind-up animated/clockwork animals. These toys were very popular in North America. Later on, many of the ALPS company were designed as battery-operated toys. Eventually,

the company abandoned their toy business in the 1970's and chose to concentrate  on their other division of manufacture - consumer and industrial electronics.**

**Please click here to visit this interesting and informative website

Although I rarely write about toys from the 1940's and 1950's, time and years advance. I was born in 1948, and I'll soon be 70 years "young". Time does fly by faster than you think!

So that's it for today - short and sweet.

Thanks for dropping by,

and you ever have any questions, or would like to

be on my blog, please feel free to write me.

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