vintage ephemera and collectibles 

ALL ITEMS ARE VINTAGE AND FROM THE TIME PERIOD NOTED IN THE DESCRIPTION
 
 

MANY OF TOYS IN THIS SECTION ARE LOCATED AT MY SHOP AT TIOGA PARK, NICHOLS NEW YORK.  THEREFORE, THERE WILL BE A SLIGHT DELAY BETWEEN THE TIME YOU ORDER AND WHEN I WILL BE ABLE TO GET BACK TO YOU WITH THE SHIPPING COST.  I APOLOGIZE FOR THE INCONVENIENCE.

 

PRICES DO NOT INCLUDE SHIPPING

view of other side of the boat .	LATE 1950's - EARLY 1960's MADE IN JAPAN TIN FRICTION SPEEDBOAT / CABIN CRUISER, She measures 6" long and is in excellent working condition, boat body is also in great shape except for a light dent along right side under her name - Gale, paint in great shape with only some minor light nicks    #FA27759    US  $35.00
.	1960'S WIZARD OF OZ TOTO CHARACTER PUPPET, from Ivory Snow mail-away promotion; soft plastic head, soft vinyl body, about  8" long and 10" high,  fine to very good condition with only a small amount of wear on the head and a small tear on one side of the soft vinyl body    #CC25642toto   $12.00
. back view	SWEET CHALKWARE SANTA BANK, PROBABLY 1920'S OR 1930'S BUT HE COULD BE MUCH OLDER, 10" TALL, 6 1/2" WIDE AND 3 1/2" DEEP, HE IS HOLDING HIS SACK OF GOODIES IN ONE MITTENED HAND AND A HORN IN THE OTHER, HE IS INSIDE A GREEN CHIMNEY WHICH IS TOPPED WITH SNOW,  HE HAS THE REMNANTS OF SILVER GLITTER ON THE FUR OF HIS CAP AND ON HIS BELT BUCKLE (IT IS THE REALLY OLD TYPE OF SILVER GLITTER THAT TARNISHES WITH AGE LIKE SILVER DOES  - DID IT HAVE REAL SILVER IN IT?), condition is very good, with wear on his paint ( which, I think, lends Santa a charm),  a couple of what I think are hairline cracks (one on the side of his head and one on the chimney), but which might be layering in the chalk, they are so fine I doubt they go through the depth of the chalk, Also, there are some shallow chips - 3 on the horn and one on the bottom of the chimney.  That spot on Santa's cheek in the top photo, I believe, is a peeling of a single layer of the chalk    #X25402    $65.00 .
. .	1950 FIRESTONE FALL AND WINTER CATALOG, Elmira New York, 66 pages total, 16 pages of toys including Firestone Pedal cars (torpedo auto, dump truck, fire truck, Fire Chief, station wagon, and tractor), bikes, wagons, mechanized Structo Gas Tank Truck, mechanized roller coaster, mechanized Milton Berle car, Erector Sets, Toni doll and other dolls, Firestone Service Station playset, Keystone Farm set, Marx mechanical Freight Train. Marx electric Streamliner train set, Mechanical Disney Train set (lithographed set including a car that says "Walt Disney's Mickey Mouse Meteor"), Lionel Train sets, Lionel illuminated freight shed, Lionel Coal Conveyor, Firestone Delivery Truck, Doepke Euclid truck, Doepke Mobile Crane, Pepsi-Cola truck, other die-cast steel trucks, and  Daisy Red Ryder 1000-shot Air Rifle, plus lots of household, kitchen, and automobile items, ALSO Savage and Stevens guns, rifles and shotguns; 8 1/4" x 11", fine to excellent condition with some mild wear on the edges and corners    #TY28842    $35.00 .
. .	RARE AND WONDERFUL 1959 McNEIL BUTIBEL (butabarbital sodium, anti-spasmodic sedative) AD WITH AMERICAN CHARACTER TONI DOLL (according to what the doll collectors tell me), 8" x 11 1/4", excellent condition with some printing misses in the color, blurb about my website not on the ad    #MD29003    $35.00 .
click for a scan of an inside page . .	1943 WALTHERS O GAUGE MODEL RAILROAD EQUIPMENT CATALOG, 104 pages, fine condition, please see attached description for more detail, fine condition    #TY27657    $22.00
.	1950 AUBURN RUBBER TOYS AD with prices, featuring the Giant Tractor, the Super Racer, the Mule Train, the Farm Set, the Tool Kit, the Fire Truck and the Cowboy; about 13" x 5", excellent condition      #TY 30412    $12.50
.	LITTLE BITTY RAINDROP, by PEGGY USHER, illustrated by Marguerite Hanson, children's book, Tell-a-Tale Books, Whitman Publishing Co., 1958, 31 pp, unpaginated, hardcover, 5 1/2" x 6 1/2", very good condition with some wear on the edges, corners and spine, crayon on the inside of the covers, previous owner's name in ink (childish scrawl) on the front endpage, some mild soiling to pages here and there    #BK30057      $65.00
.	1905 PRETTY PRIMER BOOK with CHROMOLITHOGRAPH COVER OF CHILDREN PLAYING WITH DOG AND DOLL, W. B. Conkey Company, Chicago, earlier reader with little stories about things young people like, lots of small illustrations in the form of low-quality engravings, black and white only; lots of dogs illustrations including Pugs, Saint Bernards, Spaniels, Terriers and a Collie; 32 unpaginated pages, 7 1/2" x 9 3/4", good condition with significant wear on the corners and edges of the covers, some minor scratches and soiling on the covers,  the first 10 pages (5 sheets) have small tears, the original owner wrote name and date in pencil inside the cover, some discoloration on the inside of the covers from the glue used for binding     #SP29434    $36.00
	1957 M-G-M's LASSIE COMIC BOOK, DELL Vol.1 No. 36, inside back cover has a 3M premium for a flying saucer toy, good condition with some wear on the cover including the damage to the letter "i" in "Lassie", also some wear on the edges and corners, some of the interior pages have soiling and the last sheet has a stain in the bottom right corner, some wear on the spine    #COL30315    $10.00...
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