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Dime Stores, also known as five-and-ten-cent stores and variety stores. Frank Winfield Woolworth, the father of dime stores, learned the concept while running a five-cent booth in [...]

This was a toy purchased from a local shop in Bendigo some years back and you will see many other Boyle toys in all sorts of stores around [...]

Mettoy mechanical car and caravan no. 3312 T circa 1950s, green, red and yellow clockwork tinplate car and green, red and yellow tinplate caravan with [...]

Louis Marx and Company was an American toy manufacturer in business from 1919 to 1978. Its products were often imprinted with the slogan, "One of the many [...]

Bandai Japanese RV Travel Trailer Japanese toy manufacturers  made RV toys both pre and post WW2. In July 1950 President Naoharu Yamashina (Tokyo) founds Bandai, selling mainly [...]

Norev (French) was founded in 1946 and is the family name Veron, spelled backwards. The company's first product was a small service garage with several plastic cars. The [...]

Charles Kempster and William Lowe founded Kemlows Diecasting Products Ltd. In 1946 with the intention to produce a range of diecast miniature toys from premises in London. However, [...]

The "Wolverine Supply & Mfg. Co." was founded in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania in 1903, by Benjamin F. Bain. Incorporated as a company in 1906, Wolverine designed and manufactured household [...]

Made in Japan, this Super SS is a fine example from Modern Toys. They manufactured quality toys in vibrant colours, through the 1940-60’s. The friction powered cars had [...]