Vintage Popeye Toys: Biceps on Display
Popeye Basketball Player toy, lithographed tin, windup, put ball in Popeye’s hands and ball shoots up and down in basket, marked King Features, Linemar, Japan, 1950s, 9 in. h., $3,738.
Comic book, movie and cartoon star Popeye, the good-natured, sailor with bulging biceps and a love of spinach, turned 91 this year. A recent Rich Penn auction in Iowa brought high prices for mechanical Popeye toys, many with price-adding original boxes. A rare mechanical steel and tin toy of Popeye sitting in a boat, holding […]