The Times They Are a-Changin'

 Sunday, December 31, 2023                                                                                                         

-3 Celcius / 26.6 F

Overcast with some flurries

    There's a song title by the famous American folk singer, Bob Dylan. The name of the song is

"The Times They Are a-Changin". And so it goes with toys and toy auctions. In the last couple of years, well-known American toy auctioneers have joined an ever-growing auction website by the name 

liveauctioneers.   

    I haven't contacted the many auctioneers whom have allowed me to write about them, and of course use their excellently-photographed toys at their auction websites.  But in the last 2 years, I've noticed that several respected and renowned auctioneers have joined 

liveauctioneers.

    Interestingly, many of them still retain and maintain their websites, along with the ability to view their auctions. Bidding takes place on LiveAuctioneers, and I'll have to contact one of the fine American toy auctioneers to see if bidders can still bid on both their websites, as well as on

 liveauctioneers.

Liveauctioneers is a website that  has become very popular and has got quite large. It's a website that allows all kinds of different types of auctioneer companies to present their merchandise and auctions there. If you go there, you will see all kinds of different types of merchandise. Naturally, I've only written and presented old and antique toy auctioneers.  I've only presented a small number of companies that I've written about, but there are also, many more that you will find on this website.

CYBERTOYAUCTIONS is another well-known American auction company that now can be found on liveauctioneers.   

The 3 companies shown below happen to be owned by CYBERTOYAUCTIONS. Old Toy Soldier Auctions USA, is a special auction company that specializes in "old toy soldiers". 

You can go to the liveauctioneers website by clicking on the link below:

https://www.liveauctioneers.com/

Once you are on the liveauctioneers opening page, you can search for the auctioneers that I've

listed today, and you will be redirected to any of the companies that I've added to this post today. 

You will also be able to search out for other toy auctioneer companies.

As always,

Thanks for dropping by.

Have a great part of the day or night.

My name is (Mr.) Stacey Bindman

and I can always be reached at:

toysearcher@gmail.com

And one final note:

To all of my readers, thanks for dropping by,

and have a Healthy and Happy New Year.

  

                                                                                                           

                                                                                                         

More A.C. Williams Still Banks

Thursday, February 9, 2018
Overcast with snow flurries
+2 C  35.6 F

More A.C. Williams

Please click here to visit Cyber Toy Auction on Liveauctioneers

The items below are called "still banks" as compared  to "mechanical banks". A still bank

is simply a bank where you put money into a slot. A mechanical bank is where a coin is placed somewhere on a part of the bank, and when a lever is pressed, the coin is moved into a slot.

Still banks were manufactured from the 1880's - 1920's. They later became less popular and the cost of shipping these cast iron banks became too expensive.  One characteristic of these banks was that they were made in 2 half parts that  were held together by a flat head screw. These flat head screws were the only type of screw at the time, compared with the many varieties of today.

Therefore, this is one way of detecting a wrong screw on a still bank, or if the baks appears brand new with another type of screw, then it is a modern-era"reproduction". Because these banks were inexpensive to produce, the manufacturers of the time were able to make all sorts of banks.  What you see here today are animals, characters from comics (Buster Brown and Tiger), and man-made figures such as buildings, boats, or streetcars.  Most of these still banks are not valuable. However, like all auction items, the rarer ones do  receive higher bidding.

Buster Brown and Tiger

Cast Iron Still Bank

Circa 1910's

Thanks for dropping by,

and have a great day or night.

Stacey Bindman

toysearcher@gmail.com