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My Kids Toys
Toys, like childhood itself, mean different things to different people. To the average European or American parent, a toy serves to keep the young amused and distracted. Now more than ever, with the belief that multiple intelligences can be stimulated in the early years, toy manufacturers are gearing their products towards those than can keep children beguiled, occupied and instructed. For instance, toys should help the child develop his motor skills, and engage him in fantasy and investigative play.
For the child, an ornate piece that to adult eyes is essentially decorative and fixed, or a mechanized object kept as a curiosity can count as a plaything. As a result, experts have classified many objects as being on the borderline between toy and decorative object, between puerile replica and collector’s item. Such overlapping cannot be sidestepped nowadays, especially since toy collecting by adults in the United States and some European countries has emerged as a popular form of expertise.
Despite such borderline cases, there is wide consensus among toy historians and collectors on what truly makes a toy, a toy in the strictest sense. Boys have played with foot soldiers and horse soldiers. Girls have always had their precious dolls. Although the earliest of these toys have not survived, these remain true and had been so since the third millennium B.C.
The earliest known dolls were made of various materials such as wood, terra-cotta and fabric. The period after World War II brought novelties in design and an entire new range of plastics.
Mechanical toys became popular as class alignments changed. This fact, coupled with more ingenious manufacturing techniques evolved into fantastic musical automata, animals, and images that utilized clockwork to mimic human movement. The aim for toy makers has been towards movement and the many different methods of inducing it in toys. It has assumed great importance and had become a subject dealt with fully in specialized reference works.
Because of new production techniques, an overwhelming quantity of toys, games and amusements for children had been available by the mid 19th century. German inventiveness pioneered novel and intriguing designs, ranging from simple knickknacks in tin or the softwoods, which were known in Britain as “penny toys”, to constructional and educational games that reflected the growing vogue of science in the nursery.
English girls during the reign of reign of Queen Victoria, began to follow the customs of their German and Austrian counterparts by learning about housecraft and baby care. By the turn of the 20th century, it was not unusual to find inexpensive dolls, dolls’ houses, and “German kitchens” in middle-class family homes.
Today, the spread of modern production techniques has made additional millions of persons more conscious of toys in respect to their function, design and usefulness, and their many cultural aspects as well. And although refinements in the application of radio, electronics, magnetism, dry-cell batteries, and so on, have revolutionized certain toys, the folktoy has come into its own again in India, China, Central Europe, Japan, Mexico, Russia and Scandinavia, thus balancing mechanized trends with the addition of less complex technical artistry and beauty.
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1934 ANTIQUE UK ENGLISH WELLS OF LONDON DOUBLE DECKER BUS CLOCKWORK WIND UP PENNY Tin Toy
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Vintage C.K. Japan Penny Race Car Tin Toy $85.00 |
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Vintage Penny Tin Toy car Limousine $30.00 |
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Vintage Penny toy style fluted tin basket with handle 1910s $24.99 |
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Penny Tin Toy Sewing Machine. Black. $24.06 |
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Penny Toy book German Car Tin Horse Carriage Soldier $39.00 |
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- KAISER WILHELM – PENNY TOY CAR – GERMANY 1900 – RARITY $800.00 |
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- MEIER – AIRSHIP – PENNY TOY – GERMANY 1910′s ORIG. $999.00 |
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Old Vintage Penny Toy Train from Germany 1930 very rare $275.00 |
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TSC Antique Old Ferris Wheels Penny Toy Germany 1930 $110.00 |
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TSC Antique Old Vintage Weight Scale Penny Toy Germany $55.00 |
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TSC antique Small penny toy train from Japan very rare. $30.00 |
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Rare Vintage Penny Goat Cart Tin Toy, Germany $150.00 |
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Penny Toy book German Car Tin Horse Carriage Soldier $39.00 |
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JAPANESE TIN PENNY TOY AIRPLANE W/FLAGS ON WINGS LATE 1930′S EARLY 1940′S $35.00 |
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Antique RARE Vintage Horse and Wheeled Carriage Tin Penny Toy – ORIGINAL WORKING $49.97 |
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Vintage Windup Penny Race Car Tin Toy YM mark Japan $255.00 |
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Rare Vintage Penny Tin Toy Flagship Boat Japan ? $600.00 |
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Antique Tin & Lead Miniature Penny Toy MILITARY CAVALRY SET $34.99 |
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VINTAGE TIN TOY MONKEY BELL HOP CLIMBING POLE PENNY TOY $35.99 |
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1920s German Tin Lithograph WIND-UP Touring Car or Limousine Larger PENNY TOY $299.95 |
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Penny Toy Pool Player (Germany) $36.00 |
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Rare Vintage Ges-Gesch Penny Sewing Machine Tin Toy :- Germany $200.00 |
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Vintage Tin Train Penny Toy With Wagon, Japan $150.00 |
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VINTAGE TIN PENNY TOY WHEELED CART CRACKER JACK $75.00 |
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Greyhound Penny Toy tin plate GM model bus H0 GF332 Marklin tin HO OO train $100.00 |
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Tin Toy Cash Register Bank- coin store shop penny nickle dime quarter deposit $9.99 |
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vintage clockwork japanese penny tin toy helicopter H-2 $11.85 |
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German Tin Penny Toy Car & Driver Touring Limousine $39.99 |
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ANTIQUE Spiral Tin Wind Up German Twin Airplane Penny Toy $61.99 |
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1930′s Japanese Penny Tin Toy Train Engine and two passenger cars. $60.72 |
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Japanese Penny Tin Toy Car. Fire chief. $6.16 |
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Japanese Penny Tin Toy Car. Taxi. $6.16 |
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Large Frog Clicker Tin Penny Toy Japan.1960′s. $7.66 |
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1930′s Japanese Penny Tin Toy Car. $54.57 |
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SALE Paya Penny Tin Toy Mother Rabbit Limited Edition. SALE $38.30 |
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GERMAN PENNY TIN POOL TABLE W/SPRING CUE & PLAYER $59.95 |
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Vintage Tin Litho Japan Penny Toy Car Ambulance T6 Japanese $14.00 |
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German Penny Toy – Toy Cannon 4 1/4″ long – Excellent $39.99 |
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Antique PENNY TOY Tin Wind Up BIRD Marked D.R.G.M. Made in GERMANY. Early 1900′s $49.95 |
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Vintage Penny Horse on Wheel Tin Toy $225.00 |
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Vintage Big Cat on Wheel Penny Tin Toy $275.00 |
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Vintage Big Dog on Wheel Penny Tin Toy $250.00 |
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Vintage Rare Penny Sailor Boat Tin Toy, Japan Flag $300.00 |
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Vintage Penny Racer Car With Driver Tin Toy $200.00 |
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Greyhound Penny Toy tin plate GM model bus H0 GF332 1950′s toy train accessory $90.00 |
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EARLY Vintage Tinplate PENNY TOY Biplane with FLAGS $7.50 |
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ANTQ CAST IRON & TIN GERMAN PENNY TOY MERCHANTS SCALE $89.25 |
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Large Frog Clicker Tin Penny Toy Japan.1960′s. $7.66 |
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Japanese Penny Tin Toy Balancing Man 1930′s. $24.09 |
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Japanese Penny Tin Toy Jet Fighter Whistle 1960′s. $19.78 |
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Bacon Flavored Toothpicks Accoutrements 80 Gift TIN Novelty GAG Gift $0.01 If you love bacon, these bacon flavored toothpicks are just the thing for you! These slender sticks of wood are generously infused with the unmatched, drool-inducing flavor of bacon. Each tin contains eighty toothpicks. Get it for yourself or as a gift for the bacon lover in your life!… |
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Classic Space Metal Dome Lunchbox $15.93 These classic Dome Lunchboxes hearken back to a time when your popularity was determined by the coolness of your lunchbox. Space Dome Lunchbox features a classic retro rocket alien landscape scene and has sturdy metal fixtures and a plastic handle. Boxed with info sticker…. |
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Crazy and Zany Perfect for the young or young at heart…. |
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BACON shaped themed Adhesive Bandages $1.75 Ouch! That smarts! Treat your minor cuts, scrapes and scratches with the incredible healing power of a designer bandage. And if a fancy bandage isn’t enough to dry up your tears, how about a FREE TOY! Each 3-3/4″ (9.5 cm) tall metal pocket tin contains twenty-five 3″ x 3/4″ (7.6 cm x 1.9 cm) adhesive bandages and a small plastic trinket to help make even the ouchiest owies feel all better in no ti… |
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Pickle Adhesive Bandages in Tin Box with Free Toy Inside. $0.34 Talking Bandages Okay, these bandages don’t talk out loud–but they do let your boo-boos make a statement. The tasteful bacon bandages are photo reproductions of a (cooked) bacon slice. You get a box of (15) standard, 3″ sterile bandages, with a bonus tiny plastic pig in every box. The crime version is a box of (25) standard 3″ bandages in an authentic bright yellow “crime scene do not cross” st… |
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Accoutrements Emergency Underpants $0.01 “Better safe than sorry” is what I always say. Carry these emergency underpants just in case an unwanted emergency comes up. Remember, no one wants to be walking in soiled pants. Just imagine all the embarassment. Emergency underpants are packaged in a small container so no one will know that you are carrying them…. |
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Penny Toys from Heaven: The Legendary Tin Penny Toy Collection of the Late Jane Anderson $39.00 Features 300 tin penny toys made in Germany and France during the early years of the 20th century. Originally simple trinkets bought for one penny from a street vendor, these rare tiny treasures span from tiny models of larger toys to circus clowns, animals, St. Nicholas, lithographed tin houses, girl-themes and more. A beautiful catalog of this collection w/full-color photos and detailed descript… |
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Stratego Deluxe 50th Anniversary Edition $37.50 Celebrate the 50th anniversary of Stratego with a collector’s tin commemorating the timeless game of strategy. The Stratego 50th Anniversary Game comes to you with a gameboard, 40-piece red army, 40-piece blue army, display tray, label sheet, and instruction sheet. Let the games begin at your house! Ages 8 and up…. |