Thursday, April 25 , 2024 Clear skies but Cold 6° C / 43° F A Large Variety of Sports Cards and Sports Collectibles comes to the Market I've been blogging since 2011, and have enjoyed writing, and meeting all different people and their companies who buy and sell. Most of my blog posts have been about "old and antique toys". However, I've been contacting people lately to see what they would like me to write about.  Why not.  So many people have been so nice to allow and trusted me with their photos,  why not try something different? And that's how I came to wri ..read more

Wednesday, April 24, 2024 Intermittent Rain and Sun 3° C / 37° F Another Fine Toy from ebay store stripe4107 Please click on this line to visit the store on ebay I recently wrote a post about  stripe4107, a fine store on ebay.  While I revisited the store, I saw a nice Kingsbury toy, that I had  never seen before. The Kingsbury Manufacturing Company was a toy company located in Keene, New Hampshire,USA. In stayed in business from the late 19th century to the mid 20th century.*  Used from a description on the search engine Google* The toy below is made of pr ..read more

Wednesday, April 24, 2024 Overcast and Rain 7° C / 44.6° F Vectis Auctions Collectibles Specialists   Please click on this line to re-direct to this excellent auctioneer I've had the privilege and honour to be able to write about toys from a great number of people and companies. All of them are special to me, and I am humbled by the kindness of everyone.   I had visited  the Vectis Auctions Collectibles Specialists a few times but never really spent enough time at this exceptional website and auctioneer. So earlier this week, when I wanted to research a toy, I went there.&nbs ..read more

Monday, April 22, 2024 8° C / 46° F Clear Skies  (Is it ever going to get warmer?) A Revisit to VMCH If  you're a regular reader, you'll know that I've been returning to old blog posts and seeing whom I've written about. From there, I've decided to write new posts. I'd written in 2013 and 2014 some nice posts about Mr. Red McHoe who has 2 sites from which he has sold toys, as well as other collectibles. Mr. McHoe has a store on ebay titled VMCH, as well as another store on the on the Internet called Red's Toy Parts. The toy that I selected (and there are plenty of other exce ..read more

Sunday, April 21, 2024 Overcast with some rain 8° C / 46° F A Beautiful German Penny Toy Yesterday, I finished a post from a new seller on ebay. His store is Stripe4107.  After I finished the post, I decided to see what else he had in the store.  I saw some toys that are called German penny toys. I have no idea if they truly cost 1 cent  back in the 1920's or 1930's, but they were very interesting and I'd never seen them before. I did some reading on these toys, but I added a link at the end of this post  to read an excellent article on Wikipedia. These toys w ..read more

Sunday, April 21, 2024  5° C / 41° F Overcast with rain  A Fine ebay Store  with all kinds of toys stripe4107 I was searching ebay for Meccano toys when up came an interesting store.  As I was looking at the many toys that this store had, I found  Meccano airplanes and cars, whereupon , I knew instantly  that Meccano airplanes and cars would be my topic for today.  The airplanes would be my introduction to this store, who's name is  stripe4107. Please click on this address to redirect to this nice ebay store I had forgo ..read more

Friday, April 19,2024 8° C / 46.4 ° F Overcast with with later in day A Beautiful Trio of A.C.Williams  Cast Iron Racers (circa 1930's) I was writing a recent Emerald City Toys Blog, when my eye caught a series of other  toys, beautiful A.C.Williams cast iron racers from the 1930's.  As soon as I saw those beautiful cars, I know that I'd have to  add another postfor Emerald City Toys. They were A.C.Williams race cars. I knew I had an A.C.Williams catalogue from that time (probably a reproduction) , but as luck would have it, I just couldn't find it. I might have sol ..read more

Thursday, April 18, 2024 Overcast and Rain 7° C  / 45° F Revisiting Mr. Ron Michaud If you read my blog regularly, you'll know that I have been returning to my earlier posts to see who I have wrote about. I'm very grateful to all of the very helpful toy collectors, sellers, and companies who have "kept me busy" writing and learning about toys.  Mr. Ron Michaud: I've been blogging since 2011, and have been writing posts about Mr. Ron Michaud and his fine toys since at least 2014. His "trademark " for photographing his toys is to place them on his porch railing. And his "logo" o ..read more

Wednesday, April 17, 2024  12° C / 53.6° F Cloudy with Sunny Periods PowerCoupleDeals  Continued Please click this sentence to visit PowerCoupleDeals on ebay This post is a continuation of a fine ebay store that I introduced to everyone yesterday. The name of the store is PowerCoupleDeals. They have lots of categories of merchandise. But what I was looking for were toys, and I found lots of very nice toys to post and write about. Some of their photographs have their company name with that scan code icon. What's great about their store is the fact that there are lots of photos t ..read more

Tuesday, April 16, 2024 9° C / 48° F Clear skies with lots of sun  Introducing a Fine New Store from ebay I've be been sending out lots of e-mails in order to find new people and companies  to write about on my blog. I received a fast reply from a couple who have a nice store  on ebay. Their names are Doug & Judy. Their company is called  PowerCoupleDeals They have lots of  great toys for sale, and their photos and descriptions are well done. Please click on this line to visit their nice store Description: This is a 1920's Hubley (USA) cast iron fut ..read more