Steve Butler

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 [...]

By Steve Butler HARVESTER INTRODUCED their Red Baby truck for 1922. The truck was essentially an existing model referred to as a “speed truck” that simply was an advertising attempt painted red [...]

By Steve Butler FOUND IN THE SMALLEST of four file cabinets was an11-inch stack of folders and other miscellany that had not been seen for years. It was mostly paper items relating to toys that [...]

By Steve Butler THE FRONT TRUCK in the photo was made by Wyandotte and was identified as their “FRONT LOADER TYPE DUMP TRUCK No.122.” The truck had a “W” above the grille and was a member of [...]

By Steve Butler This 10.2-inch pressed steel sedan or limousine was issued by Marx circa 1936. The decal above the split rear windows reads in part “PRESS DOWN HERE” just below a hand doing so on [...]

By Steve Butler BY THE MID-1950s Marx was continuing to increase their already large product line by adding a number of plastic toy vehicles. This may have been in part to counter several other [...]

By Steve Butler MARX ISSUED the pictured set probably for 1954 and numbered it as their set #6652. Complete and boxed examples of the set including a key-wind Buick seldom turn up. Individually [...]