Toy Collectors Order Wings

Tin windup toys are as popular as ever in the collectors market. Dancing characters and moving animal automatons are fun finds, but cars, planes and trains are the toys that tend to bring the highest prices.   A recent Bertoia auction in New Jersey featured 940 lots of Christmas items, candy containers, and many toys, including […]

Moving Toys

Clockwork toys were produced in quantity in America from about 1865 to 1900. The toys were quite literally made with brass clockworks on the inside to move the arms or legs of the toy. Moving toys were manufactured from painted or printed tin, wood, cast iron, or cloth. Dancing figures, walking figures, cigarette-smoking men, circus […]