• Antique Toy World Magazine for January 2012

    Antique Toy World Magazine for January 2012

    Don’t miss the December 2011 issue of Antique Toy World Magazine! Here’s what’s inside: A Toy Christmas by Jack Herbert Another Collectible by John West Normandie vs. Queen Mary by R. T. Claus Chicago Toy Show – October 23, 2011, Collectors Came from Around the World! Ideal Bureau by Sy Schreckinger JNF Model Cars by Burton Benjamin Europe is Alive [...]

     
  • Normandie vs. Queen Mary

    Normandie vs. Queen Mary

    BY R. T. CLAUS BETWEEN 1935 AND THE BEGINNING of the Second World War two great ships of nearly identical size competed for “The Blue Riband.” When completed in 1935 the Normandie of the CGT, at the time the world’s largest liner, weighed in at 79,280 gross tons. On her maiden voyage she captured the speed record with a westbound [...]

     
  • JNF Model Cars

    JNF Model Cars

    BY BURTON BENJAMIN THE MODEL CARS FEATURED in this article were made by JNF. Josef Neuhierl founded the company in Furth, Germany in 1920. His company was among the most prestigious sheet metal toy production companies. They manufactured metal cars from 1920 to 1956, which was the introduction of plastic cars. In 1963 Carrera, a.k.a. Neuhierl was formed. Today, Carrera [...]

     
  • A Toy Christmas

    A Toy Christmas

    BY JACK HERBERT EVEN THOUGH WE ARE ALL NOW ADULTS, Santa Claus is still a most welcome figure these days. And being antique toy collectors, we find Santa in our toy cars, stables, airplanes, sleighs, and in great numbers driving the engines of passenger toy trains. Many of us have enough Christmas toys, some very old, to produce a splendid [...]

     
  • Ideal Bureau

    Ideal Bureau

    BY SY SCHRECKINGER MAGIC, IN THE FORM of illusions, slight of hand, and “disappearing” coin tricks have amazed and fascinated young and old alike. Nineteenth and early twentieth century designers and manufacturers of novelty items, including mechanical banks, were well aware of the public’s beguilement. This became evident by their introduction of various “magical” apparatus. Amongst these items was the [...]

     
  • Camera Bank (Semi-Mechanical)

    Camera Bank (Semi-Mechanical)

    BY SY SCHRECKINGER THE “MAGIC” OF projecting a three dimensional image onto a two dimensional or flat surface has fascinated scientists, theologists and the simply curious throughout the ages. The birth of photographic cameras is attributed to the “Camera Obscura”, a device dating back to ancient China. A box-like room with a pinhole or lens in one wall was utilized [...]

     
  • D-LZ 127

    D-LZ 127

    BY R. T. CLAUS The Graf Zeppelin was the world’s most successful airship. In spite of having only an 80 mph cruising speed this huge craft was able, during 9 years of service beginning in 1928, to circle the globe, make 590 flights, and travel over one million miles. The Luftschiff had truly mind boggling statistics. It was 776 ft. [...]

     
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

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