Toys

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 celluloid toys  and rubber swimming [...]

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 the country. This one is [...]

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 the store of William Moore [...]

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 toy manufacturing side of [...]

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 Marx toys, have you all [...]

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 sunroof, in red, white and [...]

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 towbars and included a toy [...]

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 cars had colorful bodies and [...]

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 utensils and broom holders, as [...]