Posts Tagged ‘Stephens’

Cast Iron Still Bank Collection

By Ed Sandford | August 4, 2017 |

Cast Iron Still Bank Collection This selection is humble, but the quality is there. Here are some pictures to share of an early cast iron still bank collection. Pictured are still banks by Kyser and Rex, the Animal Bank and Yong America, along side a Victorian Bank and Teller Bank. Kyser and Rex toys…

J.E. Stevens Co. catalog from 1906- Banks, Safes, and Cast Iron

By Ed Sandford | November 3, 2015 |

1906 Was a prodigious year for J & E Stevens and we are blessed to have paperwork to prove it. The Great War to End All Wars and then the second World War converted countless pieces of paper and metal toys into munitions and fuel. Yet there was at least one surviving catalog to enjoy…

World’s Most Expensive Toys– Yes, they are Antiques

By Ed Sandford | October 22, 2015 |

Morphy Auctions Sale of Old Woman In Shoe

World’s most expensive Toys Searching for valuable toys and internet research is fraught with mistakes, exaggerations, misrepresentations, and assumptions. I constantly get asked “Did you get a load of that article on the World’s most expensive toys? Barbie? GI Joe? Gundam? Something seems off.” Let me reframe the question, qualify, then correct. For me,…