Easy stuff like Tootsie Toys are found and I can figure out what they are worth. The same for Paya wind-up cars.
But the hard stuff is the really old toys;
like a cast iron, Horse Drawn Hook & Ladder.
I am sure it is from about 1909-20,
but I have found no pictures.
Then there is a Green,
Pressed Steel Delivery Truck.
It’s probably from 1920-30s and some one
repainted/refurbished it. But there were
dozens of toy makers and not enough pictures.
At other times I have incredible luck.
I have an unmarked
Pressed Steel Airplane in a Presses Steel Hanger.
I type in three words into Google and the second
link has a picture of the exact toy!
Scheibel Toy Airplane with Hanger
One down, twelve boxes of toys, or more, to catalog.
(Sigh)
4 comments:
It's a miracle they are still in good nick!
I wonder if you could take the photos of the old toys to an elderly friend or to the residents of a rest home to help you identify them. You'd have to take notes pretty fast if you were showing the pictures around at the lunchroom at a rest home! What about a senior center?
Love your toys, GW. Well worth the job of cataloguing I should say - possibly financially but certainly in satisfaction. I'm a 'senior', but I didn't recognise the pictures, except that possibly the ladder cart would have been part of a fire engine (firetruck) kit.
I came to your website via Lee's, by the way.
Thanks for visiting, Judith
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