Metalcraft Pressed Steel Box Truck *SOLD*

Metalcraft Pressed Steel Box Truck

This original metalcraft toy was made in St. Louis and is in original condition.  It comes estate fresh and has a great green and yellow cloth with black.

The tailgate is present and wheels are original.

Length approximately 11″.

Condition is used, but we find that Metalcraft toys have thin paint, so this is a actually very good condition for the 90 year old toy.

A brief history of Metalcraft Corp. of St Louis, Missouri:  

1920 – 1938  

Founder: George R. Ericson   

Specialty: Playground equipment such as teeter-totters. They produced pressed-steel trucks in 1928 and acquired the rights to the pressed-steel airplane kit of Lindbergh’s “Spirit of St. Louis”. They produced millions of toy truck premiums known as “Business Leaders”; the Coca-Cola trucks with small glass Coke bottles were one of the most famous of these. Metalcraft Corporation like so many others during the Great Depression, ended up closing their doors in 1938.