Emerald City Toys Revisited

Monday, November 21,2016
Overcast with snow - Ugh!
2 Celsius 36 Fahrenheit

Emerald City Toys

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About Emerald City Toys

"Our goal at Emerald City Toys is to help you, the collector in your quest to find the 

latest addition to your toy shelf. We strive to stock a great variety of antique and vintage toys in all price ranges, so that all levels of collectors are welcome at our site.  We buy, sell,  and trade all manners of vintage and antique toys from the 1900's through the 1960's."

I haven't been to visit Emerald City Toys in a long time.  I had looked at my 1200 plus posts,and came across Emerald City Toys, so I decided to revisit them. I found lots of interesting toys, and presented today are an eclectic (broad and diverse) group of them. If you visit their website you will see lots of toys that are well researched and described.

1920’s Buffalo Toys Red Streak Land Speed Race Car

This great light weight steel land speed racer was produced in the U.S. in the 1920’s.  Buffalo Toy toys are difficult to locate in good condition because of their light weight construction. 

The toy is 21″  ( 533 mm) long.

Wyandotte LaSalle Car & Trailer

Made in the 1930's of pressed steel and whute rubber tires, this toy was iconic for its' time.

Length:  25" 635 mm

Converse Boat Tailed Roadster

Painted pressed steel with clockwork motor.

Produced in 1908, this is a true antique.

Length: 15 " 380 mm

1930's Aerodynamic Tin Clockwork Coupe

Heavy tin clockwork coupe, perhaps made in France or possibly Germany.

Length:  10 1/2"  266 mm

1930's Well O London Clockwork Racer

Tin lithographed racer made in England with a clockwork motor.

Length:  8 1/2"  215 mm

1930's Wooden Coupe

An all wooden coupe made in the 1930's. Possibly made by Tillicum Toys.

This is a company made toy, and not folk art. 

All wood but for the hood mascot and the axles.

Length:  10 1/2"  265 mm

The Tillicum Company made toys under the name Tacoma. 

They were the largest toy maker on the west coast in the 1930's.

1930's Deco Japanese Tin Police Car

 Stylish pressed steel police car powered

by a friction motor. Not a high-priced toy.

Hubley Cast Iron Futuristic Coupe

Produced by Hubley in the 1930's. 

Original white rubber tires and red wooden hubs.

Tires have age damage.

Length: 6" 152 mm

Barclay Cast Slush Milk Bottle Truck

Barclay produced fairly rare due to fragile nature of large  slush cast toys.

The castings were fragile, as the material used to make the toy was very thin.

There is some metal missing on the underside (base) of this toy.

Length:  5"  127 mm

Nylco Walt Disney Cement Truck

An unusal toy truck. Specific information was not found on this toy.

Other Nylco cement trucks have had graphics on them .

Wood constructionwith paper graphics and metal cylinder. 

Movement was with a rubber band around the rear axle.

Length:  13 1/2"  343 mm

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

An Interesting Discovery of the Converse Cars

Thursday, October 24, 2013
             (Start preparing for winter!)

An Interesting Discovery of the 

Converse Cars

   It was cold on Tuesday and Wednesday evenings,and my car had frost on its windows. Winter is coming - ugh! So yesterday I decided to attach the cocoa mats to our riverbed (hard stone) stairs).  The mats are firmer on your boots when walking up the stairs, and  act as a modest barrier when salt has to be added to the stairs when ice forms. For those of you living in warm climates, please invite me for a visit!  While on the subject, cars back in the early years did not have winter tires, nor tubeless tires. I think chains had to be attached to the wheels, and they had inner tubes. This sounds like more complications that my stairs!

   While perusing through Liveauctioneers, I saw some nice Converse automobiles. Converse was an American toy company in the early 20th century teens. They made some very nice trollies (streetcars), trucks, and cars. As I looked at one of the Converse cars, I noticed that one  interesting characteristic of them was the fact that their headlights and side lanterns were made from wood. That certainly was a deviation from the norm of the time, when most of these parts were made of pressed steel. And if you looked at my previous posts on the European cars, you'd have noticed extremely elaborate and ornate headlights and lamps. I don't know why this decision was made, but it would be most interesting to know. What's more interesting is the fact that the parts have stayed with the cars for all these years. Another question that I'd like to have answered was what type of wood was used?

Please click here to visit Bertoia Auctions fine website

Notice how the windup key goes through the canvas roof. You can;t see it, but there is a round grommet (rivet) that the long shafted key goes through. I added the toy below to show you that the canvas roof could be turned down .

THe fine example above was professionally restored and certainly presents itself beautifully.

I kept the name of Gottshalk in the Bertoia description. Mrs. Gottshalk was an outstanding collector and author of antique toys, who also had a fabulous collection of toys. I like how the front headlights are drooping! The description indicate that the above car was a non key wind version (I added pull toy). However, I wonder what that round hole is in the front of the grill.

There's that small hole in the grill again. What is that? 

Questions, questions!

Thanks for dropping by,

and as always, have a great part of the day or night,

wherever you may be.

Stacey

toysearcher@gmail.com