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or the Spiritual Treasure Casket printed by Christopher Sower of Gerrnantown, Pennsylvania, in 1744. The first American publisher
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the market. Ives, Blakeslee & Williams offered walking horses, horse-drawn fire wagons, carriages, wagons, and sleighs, and also
lines of pull and spring-driven floor trains, printing presses, and stoves, all by 1900. Though gradually supplanted by other, cheaper
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have been the world's only producer of military figures in cast iron. In 1917 Grey was granted a patent for forty-millimeter soldiers,
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technology of earlier eras. Toys have captivated Americans more than a century-from 19th-century rocking horses and early
20th-century touring cars to rockets of the 1960s. Also included are European toys that were frequently exported to America. Toy
collecting is a relatively new field, and only in the past twenty years has it attracted large numbers of collectors and inspired
specialized auctions, collectors, clubs and scholarly research. The first toys collected in the United States were banks and trains.
Antique toy appraisals bankers began to acquire a variety of cast-iron mechanical banks and still banks, primarily for commercial
display. Yonezawa Champions Racer 98 1950s, vintage space toys for sale email us highest prices paid. Prior to 1850 most toys
were one-of-a-kind pieces, with the exception of wooden examples produced in vast quantities by the German cottage industry.
Today's toy collectors are most interested in mass-produced toys made during the mid-19th century; however, toys manufactured in
the 1960s and '70s are also being collected as investments, the most popular being the large Buddy L Moving Van A Simple Way to
Identify Antique Toys Antique toys rare incredibly varied, ranging from simple building blocks and lead soldiers to elaborate tinplate
locomotives with clockwork motors and mechanical banks with moving figures. To help collectors understand this vast array, there are
books available (some in your local library) that organize toys by type materials, manufacturers and other organizational classes. This
is by far the best way to get started. Games and Paper Toys Free toy appraisals Inexpensive to produce and easy to transport, paper
toys and board games have antique toy appraisals printers in Europe and, later, in the United States. They can be traced an the way
back to ancient Chinese shadow puppets, figures manipulated before a light to cast Carrington Bowles of London produced Journey
through Europe or the Play of Geography, one of the first educational board games. Prior to the American Revolution, most printed
games played in the Colonies were imported from England. One of the first games published in America was the Lottery of the Pious
or the Spiritual Treasure Casket printed by Christopher Sower of Gerrnantown, Pennsylvania, in 1744. The first American publisher
to produce antique games in quantity was W. & S. B. Ives, who issued the now well-known game Dr. Busby around the 1850s. Early
Tinplate Toys Appraisals toy robots The material tinplate consists of thin sheets of steel covered with tin. It has been used in Europe
since the late 18th century to make vintage space toys As far back as the 1830's, a few tinsmiths made simple antique tinplate toys
such as bubble pipes and whistles along with such household objects as buckets, spoons, and plates. But until the tin ore mines were
opened in Galena, Illinois, in the 1840s, most American tin had to be imported, making all tinplate products fairly expensive. Once
local tin ore became available, American manufacturers gradually began to apply European innovations, such as the mechanical
press for stamping metal subsequently into pressed steel toys, Buddy L toys Tinplate was ideal for toy making. Not only was it
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together or, after 1881, fastened together with tabs and slots stamped directly onto the tinplate pieces appraisals One of the earliest
tin shops was the Philadelphia Tin Toy Manufactory founded in the 1850s as a were made in amazing variety. By 1900 one-third of
all tinplate toys made in Germany were sold in the United States. Some of the most prominent antique tinplate toy-makers were the
German firms Lehmann, Marklin, and Bing, and the French company Fernand Martin. Lehmann sold ninety percent of its toys
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that had existed for centuries, and toy mechanical banks, ingenious devices in which the deposit of a coin produced some action,
such as a mule kicking or the likes. Still banks appeared in the late 1860s, while the first still banks were often made of tinplate or
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lines of pull and spring-driven floor trains, printing presses, and stoves, all by 1900. Though gradually supplanted by other, cheaper
metals, cast iron continued to be used to make toy trains, trucks, cars, planes, and the like until World War II including the Buddy L
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been used for the various figures associated with cast-iron vehicles, such as drivers, engineers, and passengers, Grey is thought to
have been the world's only producer of military figures in cast iron. In 1917 Grey was granted a patent for forty-millimeter soldiers,
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