By Louis Natenshon HORSE-DRAWN TOYS enjoyed wide popularity in the U.S. and Europe, during the second half of the 19th century. Construction of toys in America reflected the need for volume [...]
By François Mesqui Co-Authored by Cor van Schaijk IN THE EARLY 20th century around New Year’s Day, literally thousands of street merchants sold cheap oddities including toys in temporary stands [...]
By Richard Jansen, Member ATCA I BEGAN COLLECTING toys by exposing myself to all variety of toys in any likely venue. One of the more obvious was the antique mall. One in Waupaca, WI in a long [...]
Above: Marklin produced several variations of the Façade Station from 1904 to 1909. It is different from most of the Marklin stations, which are typically fully enclosed buildings, often with a [...]
By Steve Butler NUMEROUS JAPANESE makers of tin toys issued an abundance of renditions of post WWII American vehicles by the mid-1960s. Many of those vehicles were excellent and have become [...]
WHILE AUSTRIA has had its own vehicle makes and models such as Steyr and is the birthplace of ingenious vehicle developers like Ferdinand Porsche, historical car miniatures from Austria have [...]
By Steve Butler THE TOY TRUCK available for purchase was still secured in its original box. Graphics used on boxes for Japanese tin toys do not always represent the actual contents. The “road [...]
By Cor van Schaijk AS A SUCCESSOR OF Fernand Martin and George Flersheim, Victor Bonnet Factory started the production in 1919 in the old Fernand Martin factory, in 1933 they stopped the [...]