Posts Tagged ‘tin’
Hispania Tin Toys-Creations- A Spanish Toy History
Hispania Tin Toys-Creations- A Spanish Toy History While French, German, and American tint toys of the early 20th century are well documented, we have only traces of Spanish toy maker data. Hispania was a magnificent tin toy maker, and the culmination of a partnership between tin toy maker “Enrique Rais y Cia” ( founded in…
Read MoreToy Auction Catalog for Feb 22nd, Toys For Sale
Toy Auction Catalog, Toys for Sale We have a Toy Catalog to share. Feb 22nd! Please click on the link below for our February 22nd, 2025 Toy Auction. The file is a .pdf and compressed, so it should be a usable size. FEB-22ND-AUCTION-CATALOG-Marz-Auctions Inside, see our Marklin tin windup riverboat, our Japanese toys and robots,…
Read MoreBatman Toys Wanted and Rare Character Toys! Cash & Buying Batman
Batman Toys Wanted and Rare Character Toys! Cash & Buying Batman! So let’s put it out there to the internet world– We would like to find some Batman Toys and Rare Character Toys. Let us know if you have some of the tin bat mobiles, or tin rockets, tanks, or Ideal plastic Batman toys.…
Read MoreLes Jouets C.R. book and Historic Millitary Tank-Truck
We note that the latest toy trends in America are far away from he distant shores of France. Our U.S. buyers seems to be wrapped up in Pennsylvania Steel as well as American metal toy builds. In this atmosphere of Amercian toys, ‘Merica!’, we have an interesting find that is far off the radar. We…
Read MoreTippCo or Tipp & Co toys from Germany
Paging through the thoroughly foreign book by Rudgr Huber, “Tipp & Co–größter blechspielzeughersteller in nürnberg nach 1932”, my personal collector appetite is whetted. Translated into English- “Tipp & Co, the largest tin toy seller after 1932”. Ok, I’m drooling a bit. We have a wonderful 9″ x 9″ reference book brought to us by…
Read MoreTin Toy and toys with thin metal aka Tin
Friends and I have an ongoing discussion on tin toys and metal toys. What makes a tin toy? Why are some metal toys pressed steel and yet others known as tin toys? Aren’t they all the same and is there cross over in the toy terms? My latest line of thinking is this– Tin toys…
Read MoreGerman Tin Train Mystery- Carette Toy?
German Gloria Tin Train Mystery We have a mystery on our hands. In fact we have a mystery that may be solved by looking at the hands; the hands of a small instruction sheet. Help us please! The box and illustration appear to be from the late 19th century. After speaking with other collectors, we feel…
Read MoreWright Brothers Tin Airplane by Fischer Toys, Germany
If you are a bit rusty on history we will refresh- Wilbur and Orville Wright were American inventors and pioneers of aviation. In 1903 the Wright brothers achieved the first powered, sustained and controlled airplane flight; they surpassed their own milestone two years later when they built and flew the first fully practical airplane. …
Read MoreWK or Wilhelm Krauss German Tin Toys
It is that time again to network. We are looking for toys with the WK or Wilhelm Krauss symbol on them. They come from turn of the century Germany and are likely tin toys with windups. Here we have a WK tin ferris wheel in the collection to share. It is a great one…
Read MoreEarly Tin Toy Cars and Race Cars Wanted
We are looking for high quality tin Race Cars and Early Tin Cars for yet another museum contact. As you know, these early car toys tended to get worn out and the tinplate recycled and damaged. For this reason, please assist in the search for pristine early cars or surviving rare toy cars. Our museum…
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