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Tin, steam, railway, cast iron, pressed steel, wood, paper all types and vintages what ever i find i will list each month as time allows. Also vintage tin toys are known among collectors for their workmanship. These soldiers are big enough to have a good deal of detail, yet small enough to allow you to. Each book is produced to the same softback format, approx size 7. Shop forand learn aboutantique and vintage tin toys. Postwar tin toys includes some revealing special features on current day revivals, theme collecting, and on the various mechanisms that power the marvelous walking, talking, musical, and acrobatic template novelty toys. A collection of vintage toys available for purchase that i have found on our travels. Toy collector network toy and collecting price guides. A list of the toy companies and their respective marks rounds out this valuable collectors guide. Valuable price guides, web sites and other resources for the toy collector here are some books and web sites that can be very useful for toy collectors. Stay at home play at home order by 2pm est ships today.
If the answer is yes, you are at the right train market. Sales of marx, hafner, ives and american flyer trains. It is now considered a classic and is universally regarded as one of the key books that any collector should have in their toy library and even advanced collectors. The short film, which runs five minutes, stars tinny, a tin onemanband toy, attempting to escape from billy, a destructive infant. A display and educational archive of the wonderful tin toys produced by ernst paul lehmann patenwerk in brandenberg, germany from the 1880s to 1960s. German toy makers such as hilpert had been known for their tin toys since the. I offer vintage heyde nippes, heyde figural desk and pen set figures, lead and german composition soldiers, civilian figures, zoo animals, cowboys, and indians. As many antique collectors know, tin litho toys were stamped out of tin plate and painted with chromolithography or hand painted.
Introduction to collecting toy soldiers best selection. Her popularity spread through television shows and childrens books and. Mintinboxthe art of collecting toys the antiques almanac. We offer the largest selction of wagner tin toys, the last tin toy maker in germany. Money back guarantee ensures you receive the item you ordered or get your money back. Our policy is to bring outstanding antique toys to the market and maintain a high quality relationship with buyers and toy dealers from around the world. The book is an excellent resource for buyers and collectors, with lots of photos. Along with the shock of the first nuclear bombs dropped on hiroshima and nagasaki in 1945, the looming space race inspired hope for the wild possibilities of humans. The searchable database consists of detailed reports in an evergrowing database of items in this category. Commercial and racing vehicles schiffer book for collectors with price guide ron smith isbn. This book will be of special interest to anyone fascinated by early space travel and technology, those who simply want to wax nostalgic about a bygone era of their youth, and of course to collectors and fans of 50s and 60s tin toys. This diorama represents a raid of austrianpolish cavalry and infantry raid on turkish sultan headquarters located in the outskirts of viena. Postwar tin toy a collector s guide hardcover book wdust cover jack tempest.
These scales are known as 54mm and 60mm roughly 2nd the size of an average human being. We purchase a variety of old toys including lionel trains, matchbox cars, comic cooks, and tin and cast iron antique toy soldiers. The postwar american occupation of japan gave japanese toymakers ready access to the lucrative american toy. Cannell had createdwritten the rockford files, the a. We offer thousands of repair parts for common and rare toys and are constantly adding to our original and reproduction parts inventory. Also a selection of fun gifts that the true collector will love. Seams match perfectly and there should still be traces of the original paint. Antique, vintage and collectible toys collectors weekly.
Sort by featured best selling alphabetically, az alphabetically, za price, low to high price, high to low date, new to old date, old to new. We sell toys for boys as well as toys for girls, then of course big kid toys. Be sure to include the name of the book, author, publisher and. With over 200 specialty commissioned color photographs, postwar tin toys is the definite to guide for the enthusiast and. The book has over 200 color photos and has detailed history about the various toy manufacturers over the years.
The third short film produced by the companys small animation division, it was a risky investment. Before the rise of action figures and franchisedriven toys, vintage toys. The collector s corner tin toys illustrated book 1999 64 pages. Since ancient times, toys and games have been crafted to give children pleasure and prepare them for the adult world. We buy all baseball memorabilia, including signed baseballs, bats, programs, cards, etc. The most popular scales for toy soldier collectors are about 2 14 to 2 12 inches tall. Now that computer games have come to stay, tin toys have become obsolete for todays children.
Tin toys had been made in japan before the second world war, but they reached new heights of realism in the 1950s. A lifelong resident of the cleveland, ohio area, he is an avid sports fan, bowler, golfer, and toy collector. The book helps piece together the innumerable chein toy details and production history. The ultimate guide to vintage transformers action figures, author. The surreal garbage pail kids collectible cards have found their ideal home on the. The holy grail for penny toy collectors, the father of christmas is by far the most sought after tin penny toy, from the berry collection november 2014. From ken holmesmost tin toys could not be sold today because of safety reasons.
The postwar american occupation of japan gave japanese toymakers ready access to the lucrative american toy market. It is a great hobby and can bring in extra money as many people collect tin toys. The tin toys book is the definitive guide to collecting tin toys. Robot romance a toy collector s story sydney living museums. This collection has many of the rarest and most sought after these german tin toys.
Tin is lightweight, easy to work with, and inexpensive, yet its sturdy enough to withstand the punishment meted out by children playing with windup animals, friction sports cars, and sciencefictioninspired toy ray guns. Toy shop antique toys for sale old and vintage toys for sale. The results are quite spectacular and illuminating for modern collectors that appreciate history. Our tin toy reproductions from welby, paya, ha ha and tintoyarcade are genuine and rare collectible toys. One of the most enduring categories of vintage and antique toys encompasses toys. Warren, whose price guide books have been the authority on collectibles values since 1985. I would rate this book at 3 12 stars but theres no accommodation for this. Get the best deals on diecast and toy vehicle book when you shop the. These colorful objects were treasured by children, and they are now a favorite among collectors. Although published in the nineties this book is still very relevant to anyone interested in collecting post ww2 tin toys. Heres an updated video of the toy robots that are currently in my collection. Spaceships and other tin toys teruhisa kitahara, yukio shimizu on. In hans christian andersens fairy tale the steadfast tin soldier, the romantic trials of an unfinished toy soldier end in moltenmetal heartbreak as the character is consumed by fire.
The pristine collection was welldocumented in articles and reference books. Ron smith has been collecting japanese tin toy cars for over thirty years. Toy calendars, instruction manuals and miscellaneous paper items. The book covers the main classes of toys, including trains, battery toys, windups and alot more. However, for myself an old and antique toy blogger, i needed the book to refer to. Buy tintin collectables and get the best deals at the lowest prices on ebay. It also is the first book i have read by the author. The most valuable toys from your childhood could be sitting in your attic or parents. Claudia chan shaw talks us through her vintage toy collection. I have a mixture of both old vintage robots as well as modern tin plate reproductions.
Tin toy is a 1988 american computeranimated short film produced by pixar and directed by john lasseter. There are 704 pages loaded with color pictures of original tin toys. Before i read the book i had expected that the tin collectors would be a good read because i had enjoyed many of the tv shows that stephen j. Antique and collectible toys resonate with collectors today for their ability to.
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