Schoenhut Little Village Builder Set Wood Toy Village Building Set for Sale

Schoenhut Little Village Builder Set Wood Toy Village Building Set – Church, Homes & Freight Station with Original Box Fragment

This vintage Schoenhut wood toy village building set is fresh to the market from a family collection. It includes a charming mix of interlocking wooden pieces that can be arranged to create a church, home, freight station, school, or custom buildings. The set features detailed printed designs on the wood and comes with multiple bases, walls, roofs, and accessories for varied configurations. An original portion of the colorful box is present, with partial instructions on the reverse. Most pieces retain their original paper detailing. The condition is very good overall.

 

 

A brief history of the A. Schoenhut & Company of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: 

1872 – 1935 

Founder: Albert Schoenhut 

Specialty: Began manufacturing toy pianos in 1872. They featured a series of over 20 different Living Pictures in the 1890s, which were framed cardboard figures animated by a clockwork mechanism. Schoenhut is best known for high-quality dolls and wooden-jointed circus and comic strip characters, including Felix the Cat, Maggie & Jiggs, Barney Google, and Sparkplug.

Schoenhut doll houses hit the assembly line from 1917 to 1934 and doll house furniture from 1928 to 1934.

In the 1950s, Schoenhut granted Nelson B. Delavan of Seneca Falls, New York, the rights to produce toys in the style of the A. Schoenhut circus and to use the Humpty-Dumpty Circus name. Delavan manufactured reproductions of wooden-jointed figures and a series of circus animals under the name Humpty-Dumpty Toy Company, until 1952. Many of the toys closely resemble their predecessors, though some differences in design-such as the clown’s face paint do exist. These toys received a lukewarm reception and are not up to the quality and charm of their predecessors. Schoenhut circus tents were known to have been produced in the 1970s.