An Exceptional Grouping of Meccano Toys up for Auction from Milestone Auctions

Tuesday, August 6, 2024

Sunny and hot

22° C / 71.6° F

An Exceptional  Group

of Old Meccano Airplanes

I was browsing for toys on LiveAuctioneers, when I came across a wonderful grouping of old Meccano airplanes.These beautiful planes will be part of a Milestone Auctions auction on LiveAuctioneers. That auction will start on August 24, 2024.

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There is a nice grouping of toys, but my attention was focussed on the Meccano toys, with most of the listings of finished toys (no kits shown). I'm partial to Meccano, because that's how I started my blog, some 14 years ago!

Above

Original Bi-Wing Sea Plane

Width: 18" (45.7 cm)

Above:

Original Bi-Wing Sea Plane

Width: 20" (50.8 cm)

Above:

Large Meccano Ford Tri-Motor Sea Plane

Width (wingspan) 20" (50.8 cm) x Length (14 1/2" (36.8 cm)

Pressed steel with cast iron motors

Above:

Original Bi-Wing Sea Plane

Width: 20" (50.8 cm) wingspan x 18" (45.7 cm) length

If you take a look at this auction, you'll see plenty of nice finished Meccano airplanes, as well as a fabulous collection of Schuco toys.

I'm saddened when someone sells a collection that they have amassed over many years. On the other hand, these toys will find their ways into many different homes, and will again be enjoyed over time.

That's what collecting is all about!

So that's it for today.

Thanks for visiting my blog, and as always,

have a great part of the morning, afternoon, or evening, wherever

you may be.

My name is (Mr.) Stacey Bindman,

and I can always be reached at:

toysearcher@gmail.com

Selkirk auctioneers and Appraisers- Photography at its' best

Friday, May 3, 2024

7° C / 47° F

Overcast

Selkirk Auctioneers and Appraisers:

Photography at its' Best

Please click on this line to visit this fine auctioneer & appraiser.com/

  Earlier this past week, I had just finished my first post about 

Selkirk Auctioneers and Appraisers. The next day, I went to search 

for more toys.

There was a whole auction of toys, but what best caught my eyes were 2 Tippco airplanes that were beautifully photographed. After I had written and posted Selkirk's first post, I wrote to them to proofread the post. But I also commented 

how excellent their photography is.

Today's post is about 2 Tippco airplanes 

The Tippco Toys Company was a German company started up in 1912

by Mr. Philipp Ullmann. It became very successful and had manufactured lithographed tin toys in Europe. 

Airplane # 1

Description:

D-IGAN Tippco Double-Decker Fighter Airplane

German, circa 1940 , lithographed tin.

Wingspan:  14 1/2 inches x 10 inches (36.83 x 25.40 cm)

As you can see, the photography is excellent. Using a white background and hanging the toy planes by a wire line, gives them a sense of flight.

What I also like about Selkirk Auctioneers and Appraisers is that they provide lots of photographs for potential auction bidders to clearly see what they are bidding upon.

Airplane # 2

Description:

D-Olaf Tippco Single Wing Bomber Airplane

German, circa 1940, lithographed tin.

With composition pilot and four original bombs

that accept caps. Bombenflugzeub (Bomber Plane)

Wingspan x Length: 

  14.30 inches  x 10 inches

36.32 cm x 25.4 cm

The photo below is a screen-capture of the last photo above.

I don't know if everybody knows this, but 

if you click on any photo, a large-sized image will show, 

and below that, small photos of all the photos of the blog

will appear.

You can move your cursor (arrow) to the first photo on the left,

and click on each of the photos to see them LARGE-SIZED.

I hoped that you enjoyed the post and the fantastic photography

to compliment these old toys. It's hard to believe that they are

more that 75 years old!

How time flies!

(please excuse the idiom)

Thanks for dropping by,

And as always, have a great part of the day or night,

wherever you may be.

I can always be reached at 

toysearcher@gmail.com

(Mr.) Stacey Bindman

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

An Upcoming Exceptional Auction by Bertoia Auctions

Sunday, April  15, 2018
Overcast with freezing 
0 C  32 F

An Upcoming Exceptional

Auction by Bertoia Auctions

Please click here to visit this fine auction

Please click here to visit one of the largest and fine auction websites in the world

Auction Date:
Friday, April 27, 2018

Yesterday, I already posted a nice collection of Popeye toys for sale. These toys are from the same auction that I'm posting about today. The reason for my calling this auction "exceptional", is that many of the toys from this auction are toys that I have not seen before, or that I think I've not seen before. What also is great about this auction is that the photos of these toys are extra-large, so that you can see the fine detail of the toys.

Citroen Au Louvre Delivery Van

Detailed features such as nickel radiator, hand crank for starting the motor

and front axle with functioning steering knuckles.

Hand painted and clockwork driven.

Length:  15"  38 cm

Pinard Open Touring Car

Hand painted clockwork touring car, with

wonderful pin striping, brass door handles, cast metal headlamps and horn.

Length:  14 .5 "  37 cm

Rico Auto-Cars-Turismo Tour Bus

Spanish tour bus, clockwork driven, lithographed driver

and luggage rack on roof. Spare tire missing rubber.

Length:  19"  48.2 cm

Carette Two Seater Car

Classic form of a 1906 German toy luxury auto,

lithographed tin throughout, clockwork driven,

with removeable headlights on the sides. 

Figure and steering wheel missing.

Pinot Boat Tail Open Touring Car

Hand painted French convertible touring car

with large attractive head lamps, detailed fabric

cushions on seats,floral patterns on door handles,

and hand operated horn running from the driver's side to the left fender.

Provenance:  Jack Hubert Collection

Length:  18"  45.7 cm

French Convertible Touring Car

Battery operated head lamps, elaborate brass handles on each of

its two opening doors, a fabric convertible top, glass windshield,

large nickel headlamps mounted on its' hood, Missing front headlamps.

Length:  17"  43.2 cm

Early German Cloth Dirigible

Attributed to Ernest Plank, 

cloth covered body, tin wire frame support, gondola highlighted in red, 

single propeller, clockwork driven.

Circa:  1908

Length:  13.5"  34.3 cm

Tippco (Boxed) Bomber Airplane,

Lithographed tin airplane with bomb graphics

appearing on wings, seated composite pilot, cleverly designed

with lead cap bombs/weights placed under wings and able

to drop when clockwork is activated.

Provenance: Donald Kaufman Collection

Wingspan:  14.5"  36.8 cm

Jep Seaplane with Pontoons

French lithographed tin sea  plane,

Strong clockwork driven motor winds from the cockpit,

features seated composition pilot.

Length:  19"  48.3 cm

Kingsbury (USA) Bi-Wing Airplane

Wind-up motor-driven airplane.

Circa:  1930's

Length:  15"  38 cm

Dent (USA) Tri-Motor Ford Airplane

Includes sample toy tag #493, red paint

with gilt lettering. Second casting.

L x W:  12.5" x 11"   31.8 cm x 28 cm

There are 1,035 lots (items) in this auction, and there are all kinds of toys ranging from motorcycles, airplanes, cars, bicycles, and may interesting items. Due to the high-quality and file size of the images (as well as the  excellent photography), it's well worth it to visit either the Bertoia Auctions website, or Liveauctioneers, where the auction is also listed.

That's it for today.

THanks for dropping by,

and have a grea tpart of the day or night

wherever you may be.

Stacey Bindman

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

Some Nice Dinkytoy Airplanes

October 11, 2016

Cloudy with sun

18 Celcius / 64 Fahrenheit

Some Nice Dinky Toy Airplanes

Please click here to visit this nice ebay seller

 I was fortunate to find Mr. Tim Humphrey's ebay store, and get his approval to write about him and his fine store. He has very nice photography, as well as detailed information on his Dinky toy airplanes that are listed for sale. Tim purchased the store several years ago, and kept the name "McCormick's Hobby". He sells other toys besides Dinky Toys . Examples of other toys are vintage (1950's) Revell model kits, and other types of toys, such as pressed steel. However, I selected his fine Dinky airplanes to write about for today. Tim has an excellent reputation on ebay.

Some History

Dinky Toys are die-cast Zamac** miniature toysthat were produced by Meccano Ltd. They were made in England from 1935 to 1979, at a factory in Binns Road in Liverpool. Dinky Toys were among the most popular diecast vehicles ever made predating other popular diecast marques, including Corgi, Matchbox, and Mattel's Hot Wheels (Ralston 2009, 7; Richardson 1999, 128).*

**Zamac is an alloy with its' base made of zinc.The other metals are aluminum, magnesium, and copper.

Frank Hornby established Meccano Ltd. in 1901 to make metal erector construction sets (Wainwright 2015). The company soon moved into trains with the first O gauge clockwork train appearing in 1920 (Ellis 2009, p. 15; Wainwright 2013).

In the early 1930s, Meccano had made many types of tin plate and other metal cars, like its Morgan and BSA three-wheelers, mostly in kit form (Interesting 1934, pp. 306–307). In 1933 Meccano Ltd issued a series of railway and trackside accessories to complement their O scale(1/45) Hornby model train sets (Force 1988, p. 6; Ramsay 1933, p. 88). These accessories were first called "Hornby Modelled Miniatures", but in the April 1934 issue of Meccano Magazine they were given the name "Meccano Dinky Toys" for the first time (Meccano Magazine 1934 p. 332) in August 1935, the name Meccano was dropped and the marque became DINKY TOYS until 1971 (Encyclopédie Dinky Toys). By December 1934 the Dinky name was also used for the "Dinky Builder" sets where coloured flat metal pieces could be hinged together to make buildings and vehicles (Esplen 2013).

One story is that the "Dinky" name came from a nickname that a friend gave to one of Frank Hornby's daughters. The word could have been derived from the Scottish "dink" meaning neat or fine (Simpson 2008).*

Courtesy Wikipedia*

Please visit Wikipedia to read all about the Dinky toy company

Pre-war Dinky No. 60B - A De Havilland Leopard Moth in Green Paintwork.

Only made in 1939 - shortest production run because of  the Second World War.

Tinplate wings -absolutely no metal fatigue, very rare.

Dinky Toys No.62w Imperial Airways Liner Frobisher Class Circa 1939

This is a lovely pre-war (WWII) dinky model of the Imperial Airways Liner "Frobisher".The model is silver, with four red tinplate propellers. Gliding game hole needs a cotter pin.It has the letters "G-A, F D I" on the wings and"Frobisher" to the front.To the underside of the plane "Dinky Toys,Frobisher Class Air Liner", 

Made in England by Meccano Ltd.

Dimensions:

The  plane has a wingspan of 5 3/4"(14.5 cm) and is 4" (10 cm) from nose to tail.

Weight:  44 grams

Condition:

The model is in as found played with condition with wear to the silver paint.

The original colour is somewhat faded. There is a sticker on the front and a pen price mark.

~  DINKY TOYS MODEL No.62D BRISTOL BLENHEIM BOMBER "CAMOUFLAGE VERSION " ~ 

PRODUCED BY DINKY IN ENGLAND  1940-41

This is the issue of the camouflage version which is found in the rare Dinky Toys #62D aircraft set. 

 FINISHED In CAMOUFLAGE TOP SIDE & HALF & HALF BLACK & WHITE UNDERSIDE, STILL RETAINING THE ORIGINAL  SILVER COCKPIT WINDOWS,  

BLUE & RED  WING ROUNDEL'S  2 x 3 RED BLADE PROPELLERS,  IN ORIGINAL AS FOUND, PLAYED WITH CONDITION, NAME "BLEMHEIM BOMBER"  CAST UNDERNEATH WING SPAN 3.125" ( 8 cms ) APPROX

Dinky 62T Pre-War Armstrong Whitworth "Whitley" Bomber

A pre-war produced Armstrong Whitworth Bomber, produced from 1939 to 1941.

The plane, which is camouflaged, has the RAF roundels on both wings and on the fuselage.

The plane has a wingspan of 4.5 inches (11.5 cm), a length of 4 inches (10.0 cm) and a height of 0.5 inches (1.2 cm).

The airplane is in mostly good order with minor wear and paint chips. There are metal fatigue cracks concentrated around the cockpit area.

Dinky toys No.62s Hurricane Fighter (aluminium finish) issued only in prewar 1939 Single Seater Fighter (wheels up model), Airplane is silver with RAF roundels on one wing & both sides of fuselage, some light wear with propeller intact, generally this plane is in Good Plus condition - 

ABSOLUTELY NO METAL FATIGUE - VERY RARE

This listing is for a rare Dinky Toys # 60s Fairey Battle Bomber  aeroplane model from 1940/41

This example is in dark camouflage and the model is in overall in good condition with blistering fatigue on the wings,but no breaks or repairs,and the original finish is good, with minimal play wear chipping.

This version was cast with the undercarriage down with its' wheels.

Thanks for dropping buy,

and as always,

have a great part of the day or night,

wherever you may be.

Stacey Bindman

toysearcher@gmail.com