An Exceptional Seller of Old Toy Advertisements

Wednesday, April 9, 2025

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An Exceptional Seller of

Old Toy Advertisements and other 

Ephemera

My early morning starts with searching for my next blog post. I was checking out 

ebay, when I came across a most interesting seller. The name of the store is 

Mantiques and Baseball. This store sells ephemera, which is a rarely-used word for  rare collectibles, and mostly associated with paper. It could be posters, magazines, newspapers, and other forms of paper that can have photographs, artwork, and other kinds of images such as lithographs.

As you can see from the Mantiques and baseball screen-capture below, the

company has an excellent reputation, lots of followers, and has sold lots

of this type of collectible.

I wrote to the store owner for permission, and was elated to receive permission.

The owner, prefers to to have me communicate with him by his name 

GDAWG

 on

 ebay

Please click on this sentence to visit this exceptional ebay store

I wrote to the owner of Mantiques & baseball and I got his permission to wrote about his fine store and of course the fabulous collection of ephemera. I decided to limit today's post exclusively to old catalogue pages of toys.  Most of todays images were created for toy companies by illustrators or artists.  I admire people who can draw or sketch,  and old illustrations from old newspapers, magazines, or books are wonderful to look at.

Below:

Description:

1949 Paper Ad Tootsietoy Metal Toys

For those who don't know,Tootsietoys are small-sized die cast toys. The company was an American company, and produced lots of wonderful toys.

 1948 PAPER AD 3 Page Wyandotte Toy Ad Pages

1934 Paper A.C.Williams Toy Roadster Coupe Cars

These toys were made from cast iron and had rubber tires.

If you've ever held a cast iron toy, you'll have a nice feeling.

They're heavy and solid.

1934 PAPER AD Tootsietoy Metal Toys

Miniatures Car Truck Taxi Deluxe Mechanical

It's amazing that these paper  pages are in such fine condition.

Some people find them and like to frame them and put them on their wall.

Description:

1906/07  PAPER AD Cast Iron Toy Train

Sets Locomotive New York Central Fire

Description:

1937 PAPER AD German Mechanical

Metal Toy Firetruck Ladder Truck 6 Wheeler

I've only presented a small sampling of what this fine store and GDAWG has to offer for anybody that collects old magazines, catalogues or advertisements.

His website is most interesting and fascinating. So if you like to look at old

magazines and toy catalogues, this is definitely the site to visit.

GDAWG's store is not limited to just toy catalogues. 

exceptional photographs  from famous photographers such as Helmut Newton 

and Yousef Karsh. The Karsh photos are of the gravure type. If you like 

to look at fine photographic portraits, this also is an excellent place to look

at, and perhaps even purchase one of the fine images.

Thanks for dropping by to visit my blog, and have

a great part of the day or night, wherever you may be.

My name is (Mr.) Stacey Bindman,

and I can  always be reached at 

toysearcher@gmail.com