By Jack Gilsdorf I TRANSITIONED FROM operating Marklin HO trains in my youth to a full blown collector of various Marklin trains and toys. My uncle was the US Consul General in Berlin after WW2 [...]
Text and photos by Henry I. Kurtz DURING A VISIT to Polk’s Hobby Shop in New York City in 1950, I came upon some early U.S. Cavalry by Dr. Ralph Bussler, a Massachusett’s osteopath turned model [...]
By Cor van Schaijk THESE BOXES CONTAIN very different toys than we know from Fernand Martin. At the end of 1900, many toy manufacturers made little figures, mostly from tin/lead, wood, tinplate [...]
By Marc Olimpio THIS EXCELSIOR HAD been in the same family for 150 years. In 2021 the granddaughter of the original family of Richard McNeely Jr., (whom as a boy that received the Excelsior) [...]
By Richard T. Claus THERE IS NO RECORD or evidence that I can find of any catalogs or literature from this firm. Jaques Milet in his book “Bateaux Jouets” lists an address, but nothing else. I [...]