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Cast iron toys became widespread in the late 19th century. The golden age of toy development was at the turn of the 20th century. In 1897, plasticine was invented, and in 1900 commercial production of the material as a children's toy began. Frank Hornby was responsible for the invention and production of three of the most popular lines of toys based on engineering principles in the twentieth century: Meccano, Hornby Model Railways and Dinky Toys. Meccano was a model construction system that consisted of re-usable metal strips, plates, angle girders, wheels, axles and gears, with nuts and bolts to connect the pieces and enabled the building of working models and mechanical devices. Dinky Toys pioneered the manufacture of die-cast toys with the production of toy cars, trains and ships and model train sets became popular in the 1920s. The Britain's company revolutionized the production of toy soldiers with the invention of the process of hollow casting in lead in 1893, and the company's products are still produced today.

Louis Marx and Company was an American toy manufacturer in business from 1919 to 1980. Marx's toys included tinplate buildings, tin toys, toy soldiers, playsets, toy dinosaurs, mechanical toys, toy guns, action figures, dolls, dollhouses, toy cars and trucks, and HO scale and O scale trains. Marx also made several models of typewriters for children. Marx's less expensive toys were extremely common in dime stores, and its larger, costlier toys were staples for catalog retailers such as Sears, Montgomery Ward, J. C. Penney and Spiegel especially around Christmas. J. Chein & Company was one of Marx's principal wind-up toy competitors, in business from 1903 through the 1980s.

In this category we offer vintage and antique toys of all types.

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Vintage Dollhouse Miniature Red Upholstered Chair Shackman

This is a charming miniature upholstered red armchair for a doll house or other display. It has no labels, but it looks like a Shackman piece from...

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Vintage Haecker Champion Wood Darts in Original Box, Indian Logo

This is a vintage box of three Champion Darts in their original packaging from the Haecker Industries company of Philadelphia, PA. They probably date...

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Vintage HO Scale Rail Track Bed, 12 feet, black white rubber

These four shrink-wrapped packs of railbed are a bit about 1 3/4 inches across and 1/4 inches high. They look and feel to be made of black and white...

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Vintage Kenner's Spirograph set No. 401 1967 w/ Pattern Booklet

This is an original vintage Kenner's Spirograph set, No. 401 and includes a 1967 copyright Pattern Booklet, the base board, some original paper, and...

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Vintage Knickerbocker Doll Little Red Riding Hood Hard Plastic

Knickerbocker Toy Company of New York began in 1869, and ceased operations in 1983, when they were bought by Hasbro. The company did not produce...

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Worcester Five Cents Savings Earl Service Clearvue Coin Bank

This is a Clearvue chrome coin bank made for the Worcester Five Cents Savings Bank by Earl Service for Banks with the original box. The top plate has...

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