A Fine Lincoln Airplane

July 28, 2019
Overcast (Clouds) with rain predicted
27 C  81 F

Have You Any Information

on a Lincoln Airplane ?

     From time-to-time, I receive questions about toys. Recently, I received an e-mail from Mr. 
Lawrence Witen.  He has a very nice Lincoln Toys airplane from the 1950's. Lincoln Toys was a Canadian company that made pressed steel toys. Below are several links through which you can read up on this company.

      Lawrence  wrote to me to find out if I could give hime an estimate for his airplane. I did a search, but couldn't find a price that I might provide to him. He remembered that on ebay, there was one that sold for $ about 1500.00 US dollars, but he couldn't find the specific link. 

     I wrote Lawrence back, and invited him to send me photos and dimensions, so that I might write a blog post about his fine airplane. I am also inviting anyone who might have any information on this 1950's Lincoln Toys toy to send me any information and links to any sites that had sold this airplane.

  The dimensions of this Lincoln Toys airplane are:

Length:   9"   230 mm

Wingspan:   15"   380 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

The Magical Talent of Christopher Ferrone

Tuesday, March 27, 2018
Sunny with Clouds
+7 C 44.6 F

The Magical Talents

of Christopher Ferrone

A few years ago, I received a letter from Mr. Christopher Ferrone with some nice photos of a refurbished and restored toy. I thanked Christopher for the photos and naturally, I added a post about him and his super skills at toy restoration. From time to time, I receive "surprises" in my e-mail account from Christopher.  Each time, I am more and more impressed with his mastery of toy restoration, and even metamorphosing old toys into new designs.

Christopher happens to be president of Americoach Systems, Inc., which also is affiliated  with the Chicago Sightseeing Company, and I'm sure is owned by Christopher. Chris not only has the sight-seeing company, but I decided to check up on him for writing purposes. I discovered that he has a location where he also repairs and maintains his fleet of sightseeing busses. Aha! So that's where he got his skills to be able to make such nice toys.

Today's toy happens to be a Canadian-made Lincoln toy toy truck

from the 1950's. Lincoln toys were well made and included both trucks and farm toys.

The toys were produced by Milner Metal Products t6hat was located in Windsor,  & Tilbury,Ontario, Canada.

All photos copyright  © 2018 by Mr. Christopher Ferrone.

Please do not copy without his written permission.

The toy truck was separated in the middle.

Chris wanted to add a centre elevation

to the middle of the truck.

Below is a photo of the newly-installed

centre of the truck.

The toy was sandblasted to remove

all of the old paint. A paint primer was then 

sprayed over the exposed pressed steel.

The primed parts were then sprayed with a

finishing coat of bright red paint.

The parts were then assembled together.

The old 1950's truck was changed into a 

beautiful retro fire truck.

So that's it for today,

Thanks for dropping by,

And have a great day or evening.

Stacey Bindman

Toysearcher@gmail.com

A Surprise from a Lincoln Toy Person

Wednesday, February 3, 2016
Snow, rain and seasonally warm

A Surprise from a 

Lincoln Toy Person

   I forgot to check my Google gmail today, so I just did that. I had a surprise. Mr. Joseph Katzenback  had written to say that he had inherited a play set of Lincoln toys from his late father. Would I be interested in adding this to my blog?  I wrote back right away and said yes, of course.

   Lincoln Toys was a Canadian toy company in the 1950's and early 1960's and produced well-made trucks and farm toys. The toys were produced by a company called Milner Metal Products of Windsor & Tilbury, Ontario, Canada. For those who don't know, Windsor Salt (A large salt company in Canada) is in, of course, Windsor Ontario.

Boxes always make any collectible more valuable, and even the box that Joseph has is in very good shape. For myself, I like the artwork illustration on the top.

THe photo below shows that the toys look as if they were never played with - at least outdoors.

Now this is a "real find" for anyone collecting!

 The next few photos were nicely presented on the tabletop for the photos.

The orange tool is a tiller. Thanks to Bob Walden ( a reader of my blog) I now know what the grey and red implements are. 

The grey item is a planter for seeds, while the red item is called a drag harrow. 
It's for cleaning and levelling the soil.

 I am always amazed at seeing toys from 50-60 or more years ago in such great shape.

And I'm surre Joseph has someone to pass on this "treasure" to be in this same condition for another 50 years.

So that's it for this raining and snowing day!

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

A Lincoln Toy Dealer from Winnipeg, Manitoba (Canada)

Wednesday, December 9, 2015
             Cloudy and warmer than usual

A Lincoln Toy Dealer

from Winnipeg, Manitoba (Canada)

    I'll be adding a few posts at this time after my recent visit to ebay. I was just browsing when I found today's post about Mr. Justin Garychuck. Justin is from a province that is located 2 provinces to the west of my province - Quebec. For those who don't know, Manitoba is part of the "Prairie Provinces", so named because it, along with Saskatchewan and and Alberta were located on flat and fertile plains. These plains were great for growing grain, and thus the 3 provinces became known as "The Prairies". The "downside", if there is any,  is that the prairies are big and flat, so driving across Canada is not the most interesting. Many people will take cross the border to the USA, and drive west through the American west. 

   Below is Justin's reply to my request to post several of his fine Lincoln toys up for sale on ebay.

Hey, thanks for contacting me, yes if you would like to use the Lincoln Coca Cola Truck in your blog, go right ahead, and check my listings for other old toys, because I have more Lincoln trucks as well as older rare tin and pressed steel toys that you may be interested in.  
And my name is Justin Garychuk and I am a 20 year old antique and collectible dealer
I live in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada and have been in the business for a few years now, always enjoyed buying and selling old advertising, oil and gas related items as well as older tin and steel toys. Never thought I'd be in the business I am in because I am so young, but everyday you never know what you are going to find and what old item you are going to dig up from the past.
Send me a message when the blog post is up
Thanks!
-Justin
Cool Caddy

Please click here too visit Mr. Justin Garychuk's fine ebay store

Description:

Vintage Original Lincoln Pressed Steel Toy Coca Cola Truck Canadian Advertising

with Original Crate Cover

Description:

Vintage Original Lincoln Toys Pressed Steel Toy Wrecker 

with Dunlop Tires and Advertising

From a local estate, this hard to find Lincoln Toys Dunlop Tow Truck was produced in Windsor, Ontario, Canada circa late 1940s. In very good used condition considering its age. The truck is 13" inches in length, by 4 inches wide and 5 inches tall at the cab and 6" at the top of the boom.The truck is showing some paint wear on it, also this truck has original decals on it all, unsure if the cable and the hook is original, none the less it is fully functional.

I seldom write about 1950 toys, since my original plan was pre-1940 and true 100 year old toys. However, the Nylint crane (below) was a very fine toy, and I decided to add it to Justin's first post.

Description:

Vintage Nylint Michigan Crane Truck Model T-24 Clark Equipment Pressed Steel Truck

Super nice Truck Mounted Crane with all original wheels and parts, the steering wheel in the cab when turned actually turns the front wheels!. 

100% original. 

Nylint Clark Equipment Michigan Model T-24 crane.

This construction truck is untouched and in good condition for its age (1950s). 

Functional steering.

Slide out stabilizers on the back end, swivel crane works.

Yellow and blue.

The crane is missing the rigging, easy enough to make or buy!

This is a heavy duty large toy.

   What's interesting about Justin's ebay store is that he sells all kinds of interesting merchandise besides toys.  I keep saying to myself that if I had more time, I'd probably have several more blogs just about antiques and other collectibles. You'll have to venture over to Justin's  ebay store to have a look - and for sure, you won't be disappointed! 

Thanks for dropping by to visit,

and as always,

haste a great part of the day or night,

wherever you may be,

Stacey Bindman

toysearcher@gmail.com

Canadians to the Rescue-Part II

Sunday, December 28, 2014
Partly cloudy and mild

Canadians to the Rescue

Part II

 If you read yesterday's post, I had written about a Manitoban (Canada Province) by the name of Mr. Gary Nerman. I did mention that another Canadian  had also offered his help, and this is whom I am posting about today. He's an Ontarian (Canada Province), living next to my Province of Quebec. Most people don't realize just how big Canada is. For me to visit Mr. Peter de Bruyn, it would be about 1 1/2 hours by car. To visit Gary in Manitoba it would be about 4-5 days in the summer - nobody would dare fave the brutal winters in Canada.

  Peter's full name is Mr. Peter de Bruyn and he's a collector of Lincoln toys.  I had asked him if he's a seller on ebay,  and he said yes, but not for his Lincoln toys. These he sells to upgrade his fine collection. I hand't known that he had a collection, until he offered me several fine photos. 

I left Peter's nice foundation in the photo instead of placing the toys against white. The tones are neutral gray, and they work well as a base of foundation for these nice toys. 

What I'm amazed at is how these rubber tires have lasted so long!

 I like how Peter is making excellent use of using all 12 photo spots on ebay.  ebay's  fees have gone up a lot, and so it's to the seller's advantage to present his or her merchandise in the best  possible way. Not only that, but if you're canadian, the Canada Revenue Agency (tax department)M now requires sellers to collect taxes from Canadians. And to make matters even worse, American's  are required  to use ebay's Global Shipping at an even higher cost.

Peter's  trucks were not for sale with the double decker transport. He simply used them to illustrate the relative size of the carrier and to show how the vehicles would load on to the carrier.

His small -sized tow truck (above) and the  mid-sized stake truck (below) were for sale separately. 

Thjat nice small dump truck remained in his collection.

As you can see, this toy is excellently presented for all viewers to see. 

I "saved the best for last" as the expression goes.Peter also likes to collect tobacco cans as you can see on  the top shelf.  But the collection of Lincoln toys is to marvel at. I visited the MUseum of Civilization in Ottawa when it opened up years ago. The place was not very full of Canadiana because the museum is new.  I'll have to visit it  again. Anyway, about a mont ago I decided on a whim to check if the Museum had Canadian toys, especially Lincoln toys - they had 3. 

I'll be polite and not give my opinion.

Fntastic set of Lincoln toys. Peter also mentioned in one of his e-mails to me, that  for the Lincoln car carrier transport, plastic cars made by another Canadian company, Reliable Toys, came with the transport.

I like that orange and black cement truck mixer in the upper left corner, among all of the other toys that I like. The colour are great,and you get to see the many different toys that this fine Canadian company manufacturers at the time.

I was surprised to see that Lincoln toys are in very high demand on ebay, and that bidding was quite high. It's probably all those Canadians and a few others bidding for these rarer toys. It's great to see that this collection.Now if anyone at the Canadian Museum of Civilization is reading this……….

Of course, as a collector, I doubt if Peter would  let this collection go to the museum!

 Thanks for dropping by and as always,

have a great part of the day or night,

wherever you may be,

Stacey

toysearcher@gmail.com