Vintage Tin Toys Makers Marks Collecting / Scarce Book

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Lavish color and black-and-white photographs, in-depth captions, and information on makers and marks make this book an indispensable resource reference work if you are a collector or dealer of vintage tin toys.

COLLECTING TIN TOYS by Jack Tempest, New Cavendish Books, London, 1987/1994.

This fascinating pictorial guide notes that the “tin toy collecting market has experienced tremendous growth during the past few years, and tin toys of all kinds are among the most popular and desirable of collectibles on both sides of the Atlantic. Whether it is the result of nostalgia for the playthings of childhood or appreciation of past craftsmanship, the cohorts of those anxious to acquire a toy train or boat or car grow yearly…. [This is] a fascinating and informative guide to the whole range of items that are available to today’s collector; from early novelty toys, through the trains, boats and cars produced during the heyday of European tinplate manufacture to the more recent battery toys and tinplate robots and space toys produced in Japan and already eagerly collected. With common sense suggestions on how and where to buy, together with guidelines on when and how to repair and restore your acquisitions [and when to leave well alone], this book combines historical information with practical advice. The text is illustrated throughout in color and black and white, with items by such well known manufacturers as Martin, Marklin and Hornby as well as those by lesser known but equally keenly collected manufacturers such as Jep and Sutcliffe. A comprehensive appendix lists all major manufacturers and is illustrated, where appropriate, with makers’ marks and trademarks to help collector identify their acquisitions.” Of interest to experienced and beginning collectors both, this fine book is an essential component of the reference library on tin toys.

8.25” x 9.75” softback in very good condition. 144 pages.

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