Judys Old Wood Toys

Judy's
Old Wood Toys

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:

Judith Lile's
Antique Toys

Schoenhut circus and Teddy Roosevelt
items bought and sold. Click on my logo to
see my current inventory.

I buy collections.

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.

We Buy and Sell old wooden toys.

Contact us through our "Old Toy Shops".

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.

Humpty Dumpty Circus
Identification Guide

We have added 100s of new photographs from some of the best Humpy Dumpty circus collections.
Click here to enter the 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.

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.

O'Brien's "Collecting Toys" 12th 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 editor. 792 pages of old toy information.

Schoenhut Toy Price Guide
A beautifully photographed price guide for the Schoenhut circus is now available for $10 postage paid.
Click here for details.

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.

The Albert Schoenhut Alpine Mountain
	We have photographed Judith Lile's great Alpine "Mountain" made by Albert Schoenhut for a friend's children for Christmas in 1890. See these photographs and read Judith's history of this great wooden toy here.

Noah's Arks
	We have photos of many Noah's Arks from the 1800s and early 1900s. See them here. Noah's Ark for Sale - click here

Toy Company Histories and Toy Lists
	We have histories for over 50 early wooden toy makers. Click here for a list.
New Histories:
	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.
	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 his history here.

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.

New Schoenhut Humpty Dumpty circus articles:
	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.
	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.
	Delavan Circus We have received quite a lot of historical information on the Delavan Humpty Dumpty Circus from the Seneca Falls, New York Historical Society. Read a history and see photographs of this beautiful Humpty Dumpty Circus from the 1950s by clicking here.
	Humpty Dumpty Circus Catalog Photos and Illustrations The Seneca Falls, New York Historical Society sent us over 50 scans of material given to Nelson Delavan when he acquired rights to the Humpty Dumpty circus. These

Favorite Articles

We have many old wooden toy articles on this web site. Several of the most read are:

"Let's Go Flying" - This is Dave Pecota's great article about ready-to-fly balsa wood flyers. It is our most read article. Read it here.

"Schoenhut's Humpty Dumpty Circus and the Great American Circus" - This article compares Schoenhut's toy circus with the real American circuses of the time. Find out if a particular Humpty Dumpty circus animal was really ever a performing circus animal. Click here to read.

"The Clowns of the Schoenhut Circus" - This article describes the many styles and varieties of the clowns of the Humpty Dumpty circus. Read it here.

"The Eyes of the Schoenhut Circus" - Did you know that Humpty Dumpty circus animals were made in three eye designs - glass, painted, and decals? Find out about these eye designs here.

Antique Toy Books
	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 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 and certain other 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: 12 August 2008