The toy auto of the 1920s and 1930s is an important vestige of childhood and a collector’s treasure. Collectors distinguish between cars made before 1940 and cars made after World War II. Metal toy cars were not manufactured in the United States from mid-1942 to late 1945 because of the war. Many of the bronze molds that had been used for the earlier cars were melted for wartime scrap metal.
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