Steve Butler

By Steve Butler THREE SIGNIFICANT VARIATIONS of this toy Indianapolis 500 race car have been identified other than colors. The earliest was issued by Rite Spot. It was a very popular wind-up [...]

By Steve Butler THE SUBJECT OF THIS narrative is a= small green car that unexpectedly emerged from a collection in North Dakota. The couple of paragraphs that follow are needed to consider the [...]

By Steve Butler THREE SIGNIFICANT VARIATIONS of this toy Indianapolis 500 race car have been identified other than colors. The earliest was issued by Rite Spot. It was a very popular wind-up [...]

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 [...]

By Steve Butler THE AUGUST 2014 issue of Antique Toy World included an article about a Coast Defense Gun made by Baldwin. That article resulted in more written responses than any of the writer’s [...]

By Steve Butler MENTION A TOOTSIETOY race set to knowledgeable Tootsietoy collectors and most will immediately envision Tootsietoy’s #5081 Speedway Set game. That game consisted of eight #4666 [...]

By Steve Butler UNLIKE A NUMBER OF U.S. toy makers, Hubley did return to toy production after WWII. By 1948 the company was beginning to introduce its newly designed toys, items that were not [...]

DOUG CORRIGAN’S PLANE was a 1929 Curtiss Robin OX-5 monoplane powered by a modified Wright Whirlwind J6-5 engine. It was registered as an experimental aircraft. The evidence of many repairs and [...]

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 [...]

Above: Starting in 1954 F&F Mold & Dies provided General Foods with 3.1″ plastic 1954 Ford and Mercury cars for use as premiums in their Post Grape Nuts Flakes By Steve Butler [...]