Friday, December 6, 2013
Superb Condition Chinese Toys
(Circa 1950's-1960's)
A few days ago, I added a post about Pieterjan Van Den Berg.a fine Dutch seller. I had started to ask European and British people if I might use their photos, since they of course, had more European toys than could be found here in North America. Pieterjan's post was on December 3, 2013. He had a fine collection of items for sale, but what also caught my attention was a fabulous more-recnet collection of Chinese toys from the 1950's-1960's. I don't know if the USA was allowing Chinese merchandise into their country, and I don't know about Canada,,who is of course, more was more liberal at the time with its international relations under our Prime Minister at the time - Mr Pierre Elliot Trudeau.
Anyway, I'm very please to present to you today a fine collection of 1950's-1960's Chinese toys. I changed the blue background to white, but you may see some occasional tints of blue in some of the photos. Nevertheless, these photos were excellently photographed and lit by Pieterjan and he saved me lots of time in having to improve the images in Photoshop.
I like all of the lithography that has been added to these Chinese toys.
What's also interesting is the many pieces of shiny metal. This certainly requires lots of labour to attach the parts to the car body.
Once again, look at all of that lithographed tin!
Not all of the toys are lithographed, but they are certainly in superb condition!
This toy waas not identified as a Volkswagen bus,but if you were around in the early 1960's, you'd have certainly seen a VW bus!
Now here's a nice toy that you can actually play with.
And the pièce de résistance (masterpiece) - a Cadillac fire chief's car.
Did any city in the USA or Canada ever have a Cadillac for a fire chief's car?
As you can see, Pieterjan's toys are quite interesting, and in this condition I would guess rarer.
He's selling off some of his collection, and he certainly kept them if great shape.
Thanks for visiting,
and have a great part of the day or night,
wherever you may be.
Stacey
toysearcher@gmail.com
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