ZIONSVILLE, Ind. – Morphy Auctions has been chosen to auction the vast collection of antique and vintage toys, advertising items and other amusements belonging to Carter’s Toy Museum in Zionsville, Indiana. The Oct. 5-6 auction will be an uncataloged live event produced and conducted by Morphy’s at the Boone County 4-H Fairgrounds in Lebanon, Indiana. There will be no provision [...]
BY STEVE FULLER, MIAMI ANTIQUE TOY SHOW TUCKED AWAY IN ONE of Maine’s small towns (although with a population of 4916 it is 64th out of 530 in the State’s population ranks) along the Atlantic coast is probably the largest toy museum in the United States – that you’ve never seen. John Fawcett’s Maine Antique Toy & Art Museum sits [...]
BY RANDY IBEY I FIRST MET Robert Carter in the late 1970s. We met at a local flea market at a booth that had many antique toys. I was admiring an early German toy and the minute I set it down he promptly picked it up and bought it right out from under me! I’m sure this has happened to [...]
BY RANDY PRASSE “STRUCTO TOYS MAKES MEN OF BOYS!” proclaimed the 1916 Popular Mechanics advertisement. Now, 95 years later, those same Structo Toys have the reverse-effect: making boys of men! Structo Manufacturing was founded in Freeport, Illinois in 1908, originally as the “Thompson Manufacturing Company” — and later changed to “Structo Manufacturing” in 1911 — a play on the “inde-structo-ble [...]
