Cars Purchased and Sold (January 2011-June 2011)

Monday, March 5, 2012
(A Very Unusually Cold Start to the Day)
-17 degrees Celcius (almost 0 degrees Fahrenheit)

Antique Toy Cars  

Purchased and Sold

(January 2011 - June 2011)

     I thought that for today, I'd present the cars that I have bought and sold for the first half of last year.

American and the world have always been infatuated with cars, and so the toy companies reproduced toys after some of the famous life-sized cars that were manufactured in those days.

    The early toy cars were manufactured by the cast iron process, followed later by die cast and pressed steel. There were also the rubber toys and lead toys, but those I will present in the next instalment. The reason for  that presentation is that I had decided in the second half of last year to expand the toys that I bought and sold. Initially I limited my acquisitions to just a few manufacturers in order to learn about them. Those included Hubley, Wyandotte,  Tootsietoy, Manoil, and occasionally Arcade and A.C.Williams. Later I expanded into the Sun Rubber, Jane Francis, Auburn and Arcor Rubber,and a few other manufacturers.

    So here are today's presentations from January -June 2011

I'll try to find information to title the cars later on in the day or tomorrow.

The Early Years

Cast Iron

1920's-1930's

 A Small Arcade Sedan

A Reproduction Hubley "Look-a-Like"

A Hubley Racer

Circa 1920's

The Later Years

Die Cast

1930's-1940's

An Assortment of Cars form Both Times

(1920's-1940's)

Small Hubley Die Cast Cars

1930's-1940's

They Measure About 3" (77mm) in Length

          

                                                                                                          Manoil Futuristic Car

                                                                                                                  Die Cast

                                                                                                   Circa 1930's- Early 1940's

Manoil Car

Die Cast

Circa 1930's- Early 1940's

                                                                Manoil Futuristic Car

                                                                            Die Cast

Circa 1930's- Early 1940's

2 Hubley Windsors

Circas 1940's

Die Cast Bodies with cast Iron Windshields

Hubley also made these as Buicks, with the trademarked 3 oval holes on the side of the car

positioned between the front seat and the bumper.

A Wyandotte Convertible

Pressed Steel

Circa 1940's