[WATCH: In the video player above, is your old money worth anything?] (WJW) – A rare collection of antique toys and trains earned more than $2.5 million at a recent auction, with the highest-valued ...
(WJW) – A rare collection of antique toys and trains earned more than $2.5 million at an auction in late May, with the highest-valued toy going for $156,000. The collection came from world-renowned ...
Tin toys have been popular since the middle of the 19th century. Early tin toys were painted by hand, but by the 1890s lithography made it possible to print designs on the metal. Tin toys were made in ...
Marklin boats, fine German autos, a Father Christmas car, and a circa-1904 Marklin Ferris Wheel that sold for $156K topped the luxe array of European and American toys and trains, many book examples ...
Anyone with fond memories of playing with wind-up tin toys as a child – or anyone who appreciates groovy retro design – should pay a visit to Chung King Yong Yau in Wan Chai. The blink-and-you-miss- ...
Gaily painted or printed up-vehicles, characters and creatures in tin-plated steel, were the mainstay of toy making for over a century. Available in commercial form since the 1850s, vintage tin-plate ...