An Excellent Writer and Authority on Cast Iron Toys Contacts Me. Wow!

 Thursday, March 24, 2022

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An Excellent writer and Authority

on Cast Iron Toys Contacts Me 

Wow!

        It's funny how certain lines from movies remain with you. The 1994 movie "Forrest Gump" starring a great cast with Tom Hanks, Robin Wright, Sally Field, and Gary Sinise is one of those movies.

        The famous line at the beginning of the movie has Forrest (Tom Hanks) speaking to a lady sitting next to him at a bust stop and saying:

"My mom always said life is like a box of chocolates.

You never know what you're gonna get"

      Of course most of you are probably wondering where I'm going with that line. The answer is that I received an e-mail from Mr. Rick Walston. He's a successful author of the book  Cast Iron Floor Trains, An Encyclopedia with Rarity & Price Guide.

        Rick wrote:

"Thank you for your research on Champion Toys. It is interesting that most of their toys were marked CHAMPIONwhen few other iron toys were marked by the manufacturer. 

Have you identified any Champion Toys not marked?

 I recently had a page from Champion's 1922 catalog brought to my attention that was shown what was offered in cast floor trains. The selection was limited to only three individual items, a loco, passenger car and a gondola they called a coal car. There were no tender to go with the loco and no sets.  These trains were not marked with Champion. Wish they had been.

In my book: CAST IRON FLOOR TRAINS, I had mis-attributed them to A.C. Williams.

    

    I asked for and received photos from Rick's fine book,  but the size of the photos needed to be larger. I will be writing more to this post later on, when Rick sends me larger photos.     In the meantime, is there anyone out there who can answer Rick's question about whether or not there were any Champion toys that were not marked "Champion"

To be continued.......

Thanks for dropping by,

and as always,

Have a great part of the day or night,

Wherever you may be.

Stacey Bindman

toysearcher@gmail.com