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Above: Hasbro 1984 Transformers Series 1 Optimus Prime in window box, $34,462, highest price ever paid at auction for a Transformers toy. Star Wars figures, Transformers and iconic Hendrix poster [...]

After 4-year hiatus, Morphy’s will re-establish its Vegas presence to accommodate the many coin-op collectors and consignors living in western states DENVER, Pa. – Morphy’s will be heading west [...]

Highlights: Super-rare Uncle Sam clockwork perambulator, extensive collection of Martin toys, Chimpanzee bank, attic-fresh Voltamp Interurban trolley, European tin racers, top-tier cast iron [...]

Unprecedented offering of gas and oil signs includes many entries that are the best of all known examples and among very few of their type known to exist DENVER, Pa. – On March 21-23, Morphy’s [...]

Featured: 1920 Cox/Roosevelt jugate button, Reagan inaugural license plates, Australian Star Wars Jawa vinyl-cape figure, Ewoks prototypes, Transformers, Ruth & Honus Wagner ephemera YORK, [...]

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 [...]

Table of Contents European Horse-Drawn Toys By Louis Natenshon Chicago Toy Show Celebrates Its Golden Anniversary Eureka Child-Size Cars for Adult-Size Fervent Collectors! By Pasky . Focal Point [...]

By Steve Butler ON 08/11/1933 DONALD M. WARREN filed for a U.S. patent based on the construction of a toy “Playhouse” made of cardboard and assembled using tabs that “lock into [...]

By Steve Butler ONE OF THE included photos shows 2 tin toy vehicles. The lighter blue and smaller car at 6.2″ has been readily identified as being a Hupmobile from Kuramochi. The darker [...]

FROM 1973 to 2023, our Chicago Toy Show has continued to thrive and enthuse collectors from all over the United States, Europe, Japan, and Mexico. A span lasting five-decades inevitably brings [...]