Old Antique Toys

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.