A Revisit to the Buddy "L" Museum

Monday, December 23, 2024

-8°C / 14° F

Overcast and Damp

A Revisit to the Buddy 'L' Museum

The time is moving fast now, and it's getting closer to Christmas. I had to get in one more post before the holiday, and so I decided to see what's up at the

Buddy L Museum.  I'd written many times about the museum and the 

specialization in collecting Buddy 'L' toys from the past. 

The Museum is located in Florida, USA

The museum is always buying Buddy 'L' toys for their museum, 

and their website is a great resource and reference locale for

anyone interested in learning about the Buddy 'L' company and  their toys

that they once made.

 

Could you please click on this sentence to redirect to the Buddy L Museum

Below:

1929 Buddy L Fliver one ton Huckster Delivery Truck

Length:  14" / 35.56 cm

Below:

One of their services is appraising Buddy L toys.

The screen-capture shows the authentication certificate

Below:

1930 Buddy L Baggage Truck with Dual Rear Firestone 

rubber tires, doors, nickel-plated headlights and bumper

Height x length x width

12" x 26" x 9"

30.5 cm x  66 cm x 22.9 cm

Below:

1925 Keystone Packard Dump Truck 

with perforated radiator grill

length: 28" (71.1 cm) 

Below:

1929 Keystone Sonny US Army Truck

Length x Height

26" x 10.5" (66 cm x 26.7 cm)

Below:

1925 Buddy L Camshell Dredge

Length: 19" (48.26 cm)

The Buddy 'L' toys were made of pressed steel, and you can see how they've 

lasted over the years.While I writing this post, I had to search for the 

dimensions of these toys. When I did so, I was amazed at how many of these toys were produced. Doing the search with Google brought a plethora (a large amount)  of results. I was surprised to see how many toys must have been produced by the Buddy L Company.  

I was also amazed to see how many of these toys appear in very good condition.

I would not even be surprised if some collector did not put away his "collectibles", and the next thing the father or mother saw, was their children were busy in the back yard sandbox playing with the parents' toys.

I had a good laugh with that thought, 

and I'm sure this has happened!

So thanks for dropping by, and I'd like to wish

everyone a happy holiday for whichever

holiday that you celebrate during December, as well

as a Healthy and Happy New Year to everyone.

My name is (Mr.) Stacey Bindman

and I can always be reached at 

toysearcher@gmail.com

 

A Blast From The Past

Sunday, March 20, 2022                                                                                                         Cloudy with rain forecast                                                                                                      6 Celsius  42.8 F

"A Blast from the Past"

    I was checking my mail, when "A Blast from the Past" viewer wrote to me from a December 10, 2014 post. For those who don't know this old expression, it simply means that  someone from a long time ago reconnects with you, or a record that you haven't heard in a long time plays on the radio.

    Mr. Alvin Shier is a magazine writer who recently retired from  writing articles for Old Autos. He's also a collector of toys, and so he reconnected by also attaching 2 nice 1950's toys by the Canadian manufacturer (no longer in business) Lil Beaver.

The Lil Beaver toy company was in Canada and manufactured pressed steel toys in the 1940's-1950's. In was purchased by the Irwin toy company in the late 1950's, and eventually closed down.

That's it for today

Thanks for visiting,

And have a great day.

Stacey Bindman

toysearcher@gmail.com

                                                                                                           

                                                                                                                                          

                                                                                                              

Matching 1928 Keystone Toys to a Butler Brothers Catalogue

Friday, March 21, 2020
Sunny
27 C.  81 F

Matching 1928 Keystone Toys

 to a Butler Brothers Catalogue

It's always fun to find toys on the Internet and match them up to a catalogue.

Bertoia Auctions is having a current auction now with a lot of Keystone toys.

However, my 1927 Butler Brothers catalogue does not have these toys.

Coincidentally, when I did the Internet search, I came up with the page that I was looking for.

I found page 266 of the Butler Brothers 1928 (December) catalogue.

All of the toys are pressed steel with  rubber tires, and some of them have been restored.

Please click here to view this June 18, 2020 auction

If you are reading this after the end of the auction, then simply

go to the Bertoia Auctions website, and search for past auctions and June 18, 2020*

The "Packard Combo 49 Truck measures 28" (710 mm).

The other toys seen above are also large toys.

If anyone has any of the other Keystone toys featured above,

please feel free to send me your photos, and I will add them to this blog post.

Just e-mail me beforehand, so I can tell you the size of the photos, 

and how to light the toys for best results.

Returning to reality, up here in Canada, and my province of Quebec, 

The Covid19 virus statistics are starting to show the data stabilizing 

and/or the falling. The governments  (federal and provincial) are starting to 

ease up on the rules. Soon, I will be able to get a haircut and to 

go to large stores that were previously closed.

Nevertheless, if people start to go beyond the rules, then they will

endanger everyone. I hope people understand this.

So that's it for today.

Thanks for visiting,

and have a great part of the day or night,

wherever you may be.

Stacey BIndman

toysearcher@gmail.com

Tonka Trucks and Trailers from the 50's and 60's

Friday, May 15, 2020
Clouds with Rain
13 C  56 F

Tonka Trucks and Trailers

from the 50's and 60's

The History of Tonka Toiys

from Wikipaedia

"Mound Metalcraft was created in 1946 in Mound, Minnesota, by Lynn Everett Baker (1898–1964), Avery F. Crounse, and Alvin F. Tesch. Their original intent was to manufacture garden implements. Their building's former occupant, the Streater Company, had made and patented several toys. E. C. Streater was not interested in the toy business so they approached Mound Metalcraft. The three men at Mound Metalcraft thought they might make a good side line to their other products.

After some modifications to the design by Alvin Tesch and the addition of a new logo created by Erling Eklof, the company began selling metal toys, which soon became the primary business. The logo was based on a University of Minnesota drafting student's sketch by Donald B. Olson, who later became the company's chief industrial engineer. The logo used the Dakota Sioux word tanka, which means "great" or "big". In November, 1955, Mound Metalcraft changed its name to Tonka Toys Incorporated. The logo at this time was an oval, showing the Tonka Toys name in red above waves, presumably honoring nearby Lake Minnetonka. In 1964, Tonka acquired the Mell Manufacturing Company in Chicago, Illinois, allowing it to produce barbecue grills, eventually under the Tonka Firebowl label.

In 1987, Tonka purchased Kenner Parker, including UK toy giant Palitoy, for $555 million, borrowing extensively to fund the acquisition. However, the cost of servicing the debt meant Tonka itself had to find a buyer and it was eventually acquired by Hasbro in 1991.^[6] In 1998, Hasbro began a licensing deal with Funrise Toys to manufacture and distribute Tonka trucks. The deal began with versions of the trucks fitted with electronics for lights and sounds, but grew to encompass the entire brand.

Tonka has produced a variety of toys, including dolls (Star Fairies, Bathing Beauties, Maple Town, and Hollywoods) and other toys aimed at girls like Keypers and aimed at boys like Gobots, Rock Lords, Spiral Zone, and Steel Monsters. It was the original manufacturer of the Pound Puppies toy line, and in the late 1980s licensed products inspired by Maple Town.

Tonka produced video games as Tonka Video Games, including Tonka Raceway, and purchased the rights to distribute and market the Sega Master System after Sega of America stopped competing against the Nintendo Entertainment System in the US. However, the Master System's market share declined, since Tonka did not have experience with video games or how to market them. Hasbro sold the digital gaming rights for various properties (including My Little Pony, Magic: The Gathering, Tonka, Playskool, and Transformers) to Infogrames for US$100 million in 2000, buying back the rights for US$66 million in June 2005.

In 2001, Tonka trucks were inducted into the National Toy Hall of Fame at The Strong in Rochester, New York. The Winifred Museum in Winifred, Montana, has a collection of more than 3,000 Tonka toys."

Please click here to redirect to Tonka's history at Wikipaedia

Vintage 1957 Private Label

Tonka United  Van Lines

Semi Truck and Trailer

Length:  23.5" 596 mm

Asking: $ 2,275.00 & $ 63.35 Intertnational Shipping

Tonka Private Label

Stix, Baer & Fuller semi trailer and tractor trailer

Circa: 1962-63

Length: 25" 635mm

Asking Price: US $ 1,195.00 & $ 63.65 Shpping

Vintage Tonka Allied Van Lines

Semi Truck & Trailer

1955:  Dedicated to Cerebral Palsy

Asking Price:  $ 520.00 & $ 63.35 US

The two trucks below are similar in size to the ones that I  mentioned before.

They're  private label, pressed steel toys, circa 1950's 1960's.

I can't believe how time has passed by so fast. 

When I look at dates like the 1950's or 1960's, they are like yesterday to me.

And yet, they're so long ago, since I was born in 1948.

It makes one realize how important it is to take precautions against 

this horrific Covid-19 pandemic!

So please take good care of yourself and your close ones!

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 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

A Rarer Kingsbury Milk Truck

Tuesday, April 16, 2019
Cloudy with Sunny Periods
8 C 46 F

A Rarer Kingsbury Milk Truck

       I received an interesting e-mail last week.  Mr. Bryan Westmoreland sent me photos of a Kingsbury Dairy Truck. The name on the truck was  Biltmore Dairy Farms.  Bryan had wanted to know if this particular truck was rare. I searched on the Internet for this truck, but could not find any yellow Biltmore Dairy Farms Kingsbury Trucks.  I wrote Bryan back to say that I found a white Kingsbury truck with a Borden's Dairy decal written on the side, a red Dairy truck, but no yellow Biltmore Dairy Farms Kingsbury truck.  I wrote Bryan also to ask if I might use his nice photos, and he replied yes. I did this in the hopes that perhaps someone out there might have information about this truck. I mentioned also to Bryan that perhaps, this yellow truck might have been customized for the Biltmore Dairy.

The photo above illustrates the unique wind-up mechanism that the Keene Toy Company of Keene, New Hampshire had for their toys.

"Company history and description of the company Kingsbury Mfg. Co., Keene New Hampshire, USA
In 1895 Harry T. Kingsbury bought the company Wilkins and with the Clipper Machine Works and led her long continue under the old name. At first cars were produced. The Wilkins line was abandoned during the First World War in favor of the Kingsbury models. They manufactured famous models of aircraft, trucks, and buses. 
1942 the toy production stopped during the Second World War and was no longer included. Everything was sold to Keystone in Boston. The company still exists as Kingsbury Machine Tool Division, as a supplier to IBM, General Motors and GE. "**

**Courtesy of  https://www.historytoy.com/

If anybody has any information  about this Keene (Kingsbury) yellow toy truck, would you please comment on this post at the bottom, or simply write to me at my e-mail address below.

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