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Welcome to the Web's Largest Resource
for
Antique Wooden Toys
Here
you will find toy photos,
toy company histories,
and online Old Toy Shops
where you can buy great old wooden toys. We
have histories and toy lists for many American and even some
European toy
manufacturers. New information is being added daily. There are
currently over 300 pages of wooden toys articles with almost 3,000 photos on this Web site.
Most of these articles were written by collectors and family members of
the old toy companies. We now have the largest collection of Schoenhut
circus photographs on the Web - and the best Humpty Dumpty circus
identification guide too.
For
this site, an old wooden toy is any push, pull, crib, or stand up
children's toy made
prior to 1950 and made primarily from wood. Most
of the toys featured here were made between 1850 and 1950.
Our toy shops:
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Jim has old wooden pull toys
and other old wooden toys for sale. Hustler, Rich, Jaymar and others. We
buy individual and collections of old wooden toys. Current inventory is low.
Click
here to see toys for sale.
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Services:
We do restringing and
cleaning of the Schoenhut
circus, Jaymar, and other wooden toys. Prices
range from $5.00 to $10.00 per item. Contact
me for details. We have a list of recommended craftsmen for more extensive
restorations. See all of our services here.
Schoenhut
Design Guide
We have compiled the Web's most comprehensive
collection of photos and descriptions of the various designs of animals
and actors of the Humpty Dumpty circus. Identify your circus pieces
here. Click on the photo to visit this guide.
Many Schoenhut collectors are among our visitors because we have the style
guide, many
Schoenhut related articles, and Humpty Dumpty circus toys for sale. Articles include identifying
reproductions, displaying your circus, favorite pieces, and many others.
Click here for Schoenhut
toys.
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Announcing the Grand
Opening of
Antique
Toy Collections
The Pull Toy Professor has created a
website with over 2,500 old toy photos from over 180 old toy
makers. This new site has been years in the making and is
growing daily. Company histories and over 1,800 pages of their
catalogs are featured.
Click here for to visit this great site.
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O'Brien's "Collecting Toys"
11th Edition
is now shipping. Click on the cover at left to buy your
copy from Amazon.com. Jim and I have an updated chapter on wooden toys in this edition. Karen O'Brien is the new editor. This is the best edition ever!
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Schoenhut
Toy Price Guide
A
beautifully photographed price guide for the Schoenhut circus is now
available for $15.
Click here for details.
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Want
to Sell your Wooden Toys?
We offer services to sell your
old wooden toys. Please go to Selling
Services for details. We also buy pieces or collections of nice
pre WWII wooden toys.

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Toy
Company Histories and Toy Lists
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We have histories for
over 50 early wooden toy makers. Click
here for a list. |
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New
Histories:
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Ready to Fly
Gliders
Dave Pecota has written a
fascinating article on Ready-to-Fly wooden gliders from 1915 to
the 1950s. Dave has recently added some new information to his
article. Read it here.
Wood
Trains
Dave has also given us new articles about wood trains Read
them here.
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S. A. Smith Co.
Family descendent
Sanford A. Smith has written for us a new history of the famous
American toy maker S. A. Smith. He has many photos of the
old factories, catalog pages of their toys, and photos of toys
and other items from his collection. Read
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Collectors
and Authors
wanted!!
We
are looking for other collectors who would like to participate in this Web site.
We need photos, price lists, and articles on toy companies from before
1950. Click here for details.
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New Schoenhut
Humpty Dumpty circus
articles:
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Schoenhut
Circus Identification Guide - We now have a
comprehensive guide to the various designs of all of the Schoenhut circus animals and performers. We have identified
many designs not previously described in any publication. See what we have done here.
We have recently added Teddy Roosevelt's African Adventures to
this guide. Go directly to it here. |
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Collecting
the Humpty Dumpty circus
Thinking about collecting the Humpty Dumpty
circus? Read our article to help you get a collection
together without making too many mistakes. Read
it here. |
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Antique
Toy Books
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We have a page with our recommended antique toy readings with ordering
links to Amazon.com. We hope you will order any toy books you may want
through this site as we are an Amazon.com associate and referral fees
are used by us to support our wood toy research. |
Please contact me anytime
as I am always interested your comments and questions. I answer two or
three questions a day about wooden toys. Many times I can't help, but I can
usually provide some information or maybe just some hints about how
to find the answers. I will need an e-mail photo of your toy if you want
some information about it. I sometimes buy toys and sometimes do
matchmaking. I will do restringing of Schoenhut circus toys ($7.00 -
$12.00 each) and some repairs.
Be sure to indicate somehow in your email, a "Subject:" that is old
toy related
so I can tell it is not junk email.
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This page updated: 04 May 2008

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