Some Highlights for Nette Auctions on January 23, 2016

Saturday, January 23, 2016
Sunny and Seasonally Cold

Some Auction Highlights for

Nette Auctions

on January 23, 2016

For those who don't know, Nette Auctions is one of the premiere toy train auctions in North America. They conduct lots of auctions throughout the year, as is the case today. However what I did notice were some non-train toys, and that's what I decided to post about today.

Description:

Arcade Airport, Tootsietoy Planes

Includes a scarce Arcade airport building, which still retains its original decal, 

Tootsietoy dive bombers, missing a tire

Postwar (1945+)

12.5" x 7" x9"    317mm x 178 mm x 229 mm

What's interesting here is the rarer Arcade airport station.

Description:

Nice Schieble Fire Pumper

Clean 1915 era toy that still retains over 80% of its paint and its original cast iron driver is present.

It has its hill climber mechanism and shows moderate play wear. 

For 101 years old, this toy is fairly good condition. THese toys are called hill climbers because they came with a friction motor. As such, they were able to easily climb hills with much ease.

Description:

Scarce Buddy L Wooden Coca-Cola Truck

Tough piece, 1st for us! It is 20" (508 mm) long, painted and recalled wood.  

It has good colour and just is missing its windshield and rear door knob. Scarce toy.

During WW II (1939-1945), when the USA entered the war, the government initiated laws for limiting metal being used in non-vital manufacturing. As such, toy manufacturers used lots of wood to replace metal.

Description:

Scarce Large Converse Floor Train

Circa 1905

Largest version, painted and paper-litho on ton floor toy. It has a 30"(762 mm) locomotive & tender 

with a 23" 584 mm) coach, whose body sits on a gondola, giving storage room. It still retains 90% of the paper details, and shows moderate playwear.

Of course, I couldn't leave a post about a major American train auctioneer, without finishing with a train. This set is "somewhat rare" for its large size, considering it too is a centenarian (111 years old). Converse was a busy company at the beginning of the both century and late 19th century but didn't succeed as well as the other toy  companies of the era (Hubley, Arcade, Kenton…).

 If you visit either the Nette Auction website, or Liveauctioneers, you can view the many listing for today's auction.

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

Nette Auctions Latest Auction with a New Manufacturer Discovery

Monday, June 8, 2015
Heavy rain and cold

Nette Auctions Latest Auction with a 

New Manufacturer Discovery

  I was perusing through Liveauctioneers, when I saw a manufacturer's name that I had not heard of before. The name is Budgie. Originally, the company was called Morestone, but later, its name was changed to Budgie. Morestone was a toy distributor in the 1940's, and Budgie the renamed company stayed in business until 1969.

There is  a well-written article about the company on the Wikipedia website (Please click below):

Please click here to read about the Morestone and later - the Budgie Company

Nette Auctions is an acronym (an abbreviation of letters) that stands for New England Toy Train Exchange. I've had the pleasure to write about their fine train merchandise from time to time. However, they also happen to sell other toys as well.  I only found 2 Budgie listings for the upcoming June 123, 2015 auction, however, I decided to select a few more nice toys to add for today.

Please click here to visit this fine American Company's website

Below is the first Budgie listing. As you can see, the toys resemble other British small toys such as the more famous- Dinky.

What I like about Nette Auctions is their larger file sizes. They're nice to work with  photo-editing 

( I simply whiten the background).. As well, the size is great for readers to see the nice detail of the toys. For those who don;t know, you can enlarge the images that I post. You simply view the photos in the slide mode of Google Blogger.

Below is a nice Japanese friction toy. Considering its age, it's in quite good condition.

Below are some Morestone toys. AS I wrote in the introduction, 

Morestone was the precursor to the Budgie name.

These toys below are live steam accessories. What's great about these toys is that you could assemble many together and connect them with cords and string from the main steam engine. The steam engine would connect to a pulley system that colds accommodate as many as 6 wheels (pulley). THese would then connect to the pulleys of the toys. Once connected and the lever stop lever was released, there could be a whole factory of different craftsmen hammering, sawing, or turning all kinds of mechanism. This much have been most fascinating for your children of the time.

Of course, aha would a toy auction be without a Louis Marx toy? At one time in the mid-1950's 1 in 5 toys in the USA was manufactured by this company. That certainly was a lot of toys to have been made at they time!

First there was the horse carriage, then the horse trolley, then the electric trolley.

Once upon a time, every city had these troll;legs for moving people around the city. At the time, most cities were small, although European cities were larger due to their having existed many years more than the "New World" cities.

If you are a toy train person,  you might went to visit the Nette Auctions website. There are lots and lots of toy trains that will keep you interested for many hours. On a day like today In Montreal), you don;t want to be outdoors, unless you're a duck!

Thanks for visiting, 

and as always,

have a great part of the day or night,

 wherever you may be.

Stacey Bindman

toysearcher@gmail.com

So That's How the Toy String Bicycle Works!

Saturday, January 17, 2015
Sunny, and very, very cold

So That's How the 

Toy String Bicycle Works!

   I like to give exclusivity for a post to each guest or company that have helped me out. I was looking for a swr of photos on Liveauctioneers to help explain visually how the toy string bicycle worked. All of the auctioneers, simply wrote their explanation in words. However, Nette Auctions presented photographs, and as the old explanation goes - "A picture is worth a 1000 words".

Please click here to visit this fine American auction company

Not only  did Nette Auctions photograph how this toy works, but they also found the name of the manufacture - A.C.Gilbert. 

A.C.Gilbert was more famous for making the American equivalent of  the British Meccano construction toys. Contruction toys came unassembled  in kit form. Nuts and bolts, and assorted pieces could be assembled to create  boats, airplanes or cars. They even could come with motors to 

create moveable toys such as a ferris wheel (the really more expensive and complex set).

Someone at  Nette Auctions must have known that the almost-antique (100 years) toy is well-constructed and would not break.  So they took a piece of cord and showed you how the toy balanced  with the heavy round metal ring.

I'm sure they also had some fun playing with the toy.

If I worked at any auction company that sold toys, I would be playing with the toys -when nobody was looking. Adults aren't supped to be caught playing with toys, and I'd be more concerned about that than being told that I wasn't working!

My answer would be that  I was checking to see if the toys work!

Thanks for dropping by and as always

have a great part of the day or night

wherever you may be,

Stacey

toysearcher@gmail.com

Introducing N.E.T.T.E Auctions

  Wednesday, October 8, 2014

Overcast, raining and seasonally warmer 

Introducing 

N.E.T.T.E. Auctions

  For today's post, I have the pleasure of introducing to you N.E.T.T.E. Auctions. There name is an acronym that stands for New England Toy Train Exchange  (an abbreviation of letters representing something such as an organization or company). The company is located in Danbury, Connecticut (USA) and has a professional staff with nearly a combined total of 40 years experience in the special area of the toy train field. I have seen their name almost every time that I venture over to Liveauctioneers, and I was surprised that I had never contacted them before.  I sued a logo from their website, although the one on Liveauctioneers is different. Nevertheless, their logo is well-designed and attracts your attention quite easily.

  What initiated my invitation to invite N.E.T.T.E. Auctions to be on my blog was a nice Strauss timber truck that I will present tomorrow. Heidi (my wife) and I are rebuilding our sunroom that is in the back of our house. So all the morning and afternoon, all I hear is the bang, bang bang, and saw, sea saw of the hammer and circular saw. That of course got me thinking about wood and toy lumber or timber trucks.

Please click here to visit the website of N.E.T.T.E. Auctions

Description

"These 5 Cars were Documented in Louis Hertz's Book, Collecting Toy Trains. There existed a photo of the Lionel Production Crew examining these on a production table. They went from the Lionel Archives to Doc Robbie's amazing collection. And now they can be yours! All have the telltale blue paint approval splotch applied to 1 or more surfaces as Stated in the book. All paint has been tested and dates appropriately, the consignor guarantees their authenticity as do we. The grading on these assumes the Blue is part of the original paint, not a defect of any kind. All are late colored variations - 212 Gondola, C-6+(Very Good Plus); 215 Sunoco Tank Car, decals 100%, brass railing, C-6(Very Good); 214R Reefer, also marked #37 on sides and frame, C-5(Good); 219 White Derrick, Gears intact, C-7(excellent); 217 Caboose, C-6-(Very Good Minus). Remember these are One-of-a-Kind Rarities! WOW!"*

* Description Courtesy of N.E.T.T.Auctions

What,s especially interesting for the train listing is that the train was bid quite high probably because of the writer - Mr Louis Hertz. A Photo of the is nice set of Lionel Trains appeared in the book, hence the blue markings on the train.  The blue were the markings of a group of Lionel inspectors who were examining the trains.

Sometimes, you will see items at auctions that are not necessarily rare, but it's the person who owned the item that enamours a special group of people who like to collects items owned by famous people. In today's post, the fact that a well-known authority and writer had used a photo in his book, made the toys all the more attractive to bidders.

In the end, the story ended well, and the trains achieved a very nice price at auction!

I hope that the new owner found a copy of Mr. Hertz's book.

Of course, if the book had his signature, then that would be another story!

Thanks for dropping by to visit,

and as always,

have a great part of the day or night, 

wherever you may be,

Stacey

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