Old Antique Toys: October 2021

Saturday, October 30, 2021

A Fantastic Morphy Auctions Auction of Toys

Friday, October 29, 2021

Sunny with clear skies

12 C 54 F

A Fantastic Morphy Auctions Auction of Toys

I was pleasantly surprised to find an e-mail in my mailbox this morning. It was from Morphy Auctions, a very successful auctioneers, who several years ago, got into auctioning toys. He purchased a highly-successful toy auctioneer in New England, and as they say, "the rest is history". The company is very-well respected, and one of their highlighted group of articles being auctioned are of arms (guns & rifles). If you have a chance, have a look at both their toy auction, and when an arms auction comes up, have a look at their merchandise. Many of the arms that go to auction are fine old pistols from the American West that date back to the late 1800's to the early 20th century.

I've only "touched the surface" of this unbelievable auction. There are 372 pages

of toys for this auction, and it's the largest auction that I have ever seen so far for toys.

Please have a look and see what is being offered. If you're not interested in bidding, then the visit is worth it, just to see the value of these toys from the USA and Europe, and to learn about toys.

The link is below:

https://issuu.com/morphyauctions/docs/flipdoc_dec_toys?fr=sN2ZiODQ2NjA1NQ

As always, thanks for dropping by,

and if you ever want to communicate with me,

my e-mail address is:

toysearcher@gmail.com

(Mr.) Stacey Bindman

Thursday, October 28, 2021

Wednesday, October 27, 2021 Sunny & Clear Skies 12 C 54 F

Several years ago, Sept. 5, 2016, to be exact, while I was building up my blog, I received a letter from Mr. Christian Braun. Usually, I would search the web for interesting website, collectors, and toy manufacturers In this case, the reverse happened. He wrote to ask me if I might write a blog post about his recent company hobbyDB. Of course I agreed right away, and wrote back.

As it turned out, Christian's company and website was exactly what I needed to help me learn about toys, and to find them as well. From that position, not only would I be able to write about different people and companies, but I would be able to have a very good resource and knowledge base to provide information to my readership.

His website is available to readers, who can sign up and be able to use this marvelous resource without any fees. There are now 2,000 volunteers that add the information and photos to hobbyDB. And further, Christian and his team made it possible for these volunteers and others that like toys to own part of the site (they use a crowdfunding platform called Wefunder to manage the sale of shares to their users, more here https://wefunder.com/hobbyDB). hobbyDB is thus now owned by 1,100 of its users. hobbyDB, to quote Christian, is "Built by collectors for collectors and owned by collectors - hobbyDB is the world's fasting growing collectibles database."

Below is a screen-capture of a member of hobbyDB, whom I selected to illustrate how the website functions. The detail is blurry, because the screen-capture is a low-resolution that I can't capture with any larger resolution. The immediate screen-capture below illustrates a search that I did for a member who goes by the name "Stroget". Actually, his name is Karl.

The screen-capture presents to the viewer the listings that Karl Schnelle has added to the database of toys

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The screen-capture below provides the reader with all kinds of information about toys that members of hobbyDB have added to the data-base. Not only is the information very informative, but notice the choice of different searches that a reader can select in order to either find information about a toy, or to learn about a toy.

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The image below illustrates some of the information that Karl has added for the

toy that was added to the database.

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Once again, the image below shows you just how many items Karl

has added to the database. 3,155 entries most certainly is a huge

number of entires that certainly took Karl a long time to add!

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Friday, October 22, 2021

Friday, October 22, 2021 Sunny with Clouds 9 C 48F

A Reader Helps Me Out with Regard to a

Post on the Chicago World's Fair

I received a letter form Mr. David Holcombe in response to a previous post. That post was written on September 9, 2021, and a Mr. Steve Insler was asking about the authentication of a label on a cast iron Arcade car.

"Dear Stacey Bindman,

I have been a fairly regular reader (perhaps a contribution or suggestion a time or two?) over the years of your old toys site. I appreciate your research and good writing. On Sept. 9 you pictured a cast iron Chrysler and asked for information. So here's a little:

I have had for several years a slush metal 1934 Studebaker with a connection to that World's Fair. I am attaching a few pictures of my Studebaker, a 6 inch Land Cruiser Super Sport model, with a period explanatory post card behind it. The Studebaker at the fair was a giant atop a small auditorium. Mine is one of the models sold at the fair. It is lettered on the back as "REPLICA OF WORLD'S FAIR STUDEBAKER." This is an unrestored toy car, complete with white rubber tires on red wooden wheels. It has obviously been enjoyed over the years. It is marked "National Products Chicago" on the underside left.

It seems likely that car companies offered such model cars to fair customers. I know that Studebaker did so. Hope this helps. And, again, thank you for your fine web site.

Sincerely,

David Holcombe"

Well, David & Irma's letter helped to shed more light on the 1934 Chicago World's Fair.

Now we still need someone to help with the authentication of the label.

So that's it for today.

Changing topics, I hope that everyone has received their 2 doses of the Covid-19 vaccine, and that you are all well. Currently, there's talk about a booster vaccine to supplement the previous 2 injections. Personally, I've received the first 2, and will get the "booster", when it comes out. There most certainly has been diviciveness (disagreement) on whether or not people believe and want the injections, and I respect their positions. However, for myself, I believe that this medicine will definitively help people to acquire immunity from this most dreadful virus.

As always, take care and keep well,

and have a great time wherever you may be.

Stacey Bindman