Toys of Times Past Latest Auction

Friday,  April 27, 2018
Sunny with clouds
10 C  50 F

Toys of Times Past

Latest Auction

Please click here to visit this fine auctioneer's latest auction

The recent trend in toy sellers has been to use large-sized auction companies to sell their toys.

Toys of Times Past has now decided to use Invaluable as their auctioneer to auction their toys. When you press the "please click" line, you will in fact be redirected to the auction on the Invaluable website.

I've selected only toys from a Japanese company by the name of ALPS. Like many toys companies in Japan, after WWII, the Alps company was founded in 1948. The company was founded by a man by the name of Mr. Kuramochi Shoten, who had been an employee of another company by the name of CK.The ALPS company produced mechanical tin plate toys such as toy cars, space toys, and moving wind-up animated/clockwork animals. These toys were very popular in North America. Later on, many of the ALPS company were designed as battery-operated toys. Eventually,

the company abandoned their toy business in the 1970's and chose to concentrate  on their other division of manufacture - consumer and industrial electronics.**

**Please click here to visit this interesting and informative website

Although I rarely write about toys from the 1940's and 1950's, time and years advance. I was born in 1948, and I'll soon be 70 years "young". Time does fly by faster than you think!

So that's it for today - short and sweet.

Thanks for dropping by,

and you ever have any questions, or would like to

be on my blog, please feel free to write me.

My name is (Mr.) Stacey Bindman

and I can always be reached at:

toysearcher@gmail.com

A New Toy Seller Helps Me Out

Friday, January 5, 2018
Overcast with strong winds
-20 C   -4 F

A New Toy Seller Helps Me Out

Please click here to visit this very fine ebay store

It's the new year, and lately we've had -15 to -23 C up here in Montreal. With a wind chill factor added, that will certainly free your nose off. We put our 16 year old dog Buddy outside, so that he doesn't have to walk very far in the cold and snow.  Fortunately, it is going to get warmer next week.

That will give me more time outside for shopping, since nobody likes to shop in blizzards!

In His Own Words:

Good Afternoon - Stacey , 

You have my permission to use my toy photos for you blog. You may improve photos with Photoshop but not change the contents of my photo's and you can and I also add a link my ebay store. I've been in the antique business on and off for the last 40 years. Now I'm retired and just collect. I add some pictures of about 1/3 of my collection.

 Always hunting.
Hardy Littleton

Description:

YONEZAWA USAF B-29 BOMBER AIRPLANE TIN LITHO FRICTION JAPAN

VINTAGE 1950's USAF B-29 SUPERFORTRESS BOMBER TIN LITHO FRICTION TOY. 

Made in JAPAN.  YONEZAWA . Friction works , No missing parts. Excellent condition. All 4 Propeller spin when runs!  

About 19" (482 mm) Wingspan & 15" (381 mm)  Long.

The toy was made in 2 sections and came apart. To assemble the 2 parts, 

the underbelly of the toy was shown, and the wing then 

fitted into an opening there. A small lever was then turned to keep the 2 parts together. 

When the toy was moved on the ground, the wheels turned the propellers. 

Some information about the Yonezawa toy company

History

The logo for Yonezawa Toys.

Yonezawa Toys (米澤玩具 Yonezawa Gangu) (known also as Yone or simply Y) was founded in the 1950s in Tokyo. It was one of Japan's largest and most prodigious post-war toy manufacturers and an early participant in the growing radio control market.

The company and focused on the production of thousands of different electrically operated and mechanical toys through the early 1970s. Some were branded not as Yonezawa but as STS. It is unclear as to the origin of the STS label, but it is presumed to be that of an importer. Yonezawa briefly dabbled in radio control in the mid-1980s with the introduction of the 1/10-scale Wave Hunter buggy, sold in North America as the Monogram Lightning.

Under Sega’s leadership, Yonezawa Toys was briefly known as Sega-Yonezawa until the Yonezawa branding was dropped entirely in April 1998. Once Sega Sammy Holdings was formed, Sega Toys was reorganized under Sega’s entertainment contents business.*

*Please click here to read more about the Yonezawa toy company

This particular is in great shape considering it's about 60-65 years old.

These more modern toys are somewhat rare, and as such, this particular one 

is selling in the 4 digit numbers (U.S. Dollars)!

You should have a look at Hardy Littleton's ebay store.

He most certainly has lots of interesting toys for sale!

Thanks for dropping by,

Stacey Bindman

toysearcher@gmail.com