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VINTAGE TINPLATE TIN PLATE TOYS
WANTED
We also buy stamps, coins, medals, bank notes, diecast models, model trains, postcards, first day covers, presentation packs, and radio controlled model aircraft.
Contact Details
for All-originals
Keith Ridley
Tel 02476 338641
Mobile 07747020513
email. ridley_keith@yahoo.co.uk
We are buying any make in any condition. Tinplate Tin Plate model toys single items or sets. Hornby, Mettoy, Chad valley, Galt, Lehmann, Marks, MB, Pelham, Schuco, Tomy, Tri-ang, v-tech Marklin, Bing, Paya or any other make.
I personally started to be interested in all types of models from an early age. I went to a boarding school, and most weekends my pocket money went on a Dinky Matchbox or a Corgy model car, I also collected stamps. How I got involved with Hornby "O" gauge trains was a friend had a Princess Elizabeth tender, with no engine. This was in superb condition, so I swapped it for some Matchbox cars. I took this tender home and my father who was amazed at its condition. Anyway we then got involved in advertising in the local paper for old train sets. The response was great. At this time it was nowhere as big in popularity. Next we started traveling to all the organised model train sales. We did well. My uncle John Ridley got involved as well. So it grew. So I can offer a little knowledge in this department, though my brother Keith has far more expertise than I have. Be confident that we can offer you a realistic of price for any items you wish to sell.
I personally started to be interested in all types of models from an early age. I went to a boarding school, and most weekends my pocket money went on a Dinky Matchbox or a Corgy model car, I also collected stamps. How I got involved with Hornby "O" gauge trains was a friend had a Princess Elizabeth tender, with no engine. This was in superb condition, so I swapped it for some Matchbox cars. I took this tender home and my father who was amazed at its condition. Anyway we then got involved in advertising in the local paper for old train sets. The response was great. At this time it was nowhere as big in popularity. Next we started traveling to all the organised model train sales. We did well. My uncle John Ridley got involved as well. So it grew. So I can offer a little knowledge in this department, though my brother Keith has far more expertise than I have. Be confident that we can offer you a realistic of price for any items you wish to sell.
Tinplate was used in the manufacture of toys beginning in the mid-19th century. The toys were made from thin sheets of steel plated with tin, hence the name tinplate. They were a cheap and durable substitute for wooden toys. The toys were originally assembled and painted by hand. Spring activated tin toys originated in Germany in the 1850s. In the late 1880s offset lithography was used to print designs on tinplate. After the colourful designs were printed on the metal, they were formed by dies and assembled with small tabs. The lightweight of the toys allowed them to be shipped less expensively and easier than the heavier cast iron toys.
Germany was the major producer of tin toys in the world in the early 20th century. The most famous German manufacturer of tin toys was Ernst Paul Lehmann who is said to have exported 90% of his toys. France and England joined the fray and it wasn't long before hundreds of thousands of these tin toys were being manufactured.
A clicker toy made of tin Production of tin toys in the United States started earlier, but began in earnest when tin ore mines were opened in Illinois providing easily available and cheap raw materials. A number of manufactures scrambled to catch up in the beginning of the 20th century, but it wasn't until after World War I, with anti-German sentiment high, that they began to make real gains. There was a growing demand for American produced products and by the 1920s American firms had overtaken the competition. The largest and most successful firm from the 1920s to the 1960s was Louis Marx and Company. Marx produced a huge number of designs and depended on large sales volumes to keep prices down.
The production of tin toys was discontinued during World War II because of the need for raw materials in the war effort. After the war, tin toys were produced in large numbers in Japan. Under occupation and the Marshall Plan, manufacturers in Japan were granted the right to resume production. The idea was to give Japan all of the low profit; high labuor manufacturing and the US companies could sell the imported product. It worked better than they had expected and Japan became a tin toy manufacturing force until the end of the 1950s. In the 1960s cheaper plastic and new government safety regulations ended the reign of tin toys. Presently, China has taken over the role of the leading tin toy manufacturing country.
Contact Details
for All-originals
Keith Ridley
Tel 02476 338641
Mobile 07747020513
email. ridley_keith@yahoo.co.uk