Sunday, January 31, 2016

MORE FABULOUS VINTAGE WEBSITES, FINDS, ETC. FROM EVERYTHING CROTON

--Now this is a real find, complete with box, and featured in a previous auction at Croton's own SERIOUSTOYZ.COM: the "Turbo-Jet Car", 1950s, by Ideal, 16", plastic w/ tin cranked “automatic launching platform”; NM in NM display box w/ inserts; great–looking & fun--it sold for over over $241 at auction. Click on the photo. Proof positive that if you have serious stuff, they have serious bidders SERIOUSTOYZ.COM

---A very interesting movie site called BACKLOTS; this post is MERRY CHRISTMAS FROM BACKLOTS and also features a video of Bette Davis selling war bonds  http://backlots.net/2015/12/25/merry-christmas-from-backlots-2/?blogsub=confirming#blog_subscription-3

--Love the graphics on this vintage Hornby Train Platform Station  http://toyconnect.blogspot.com/2012/07/hornby-platform-station.html

--So worth visiting repeatedly; the motherlode of tiny things for putz houses and villages http://www.tinythingsarecute.com/

--Putz house building inspiration; the 1935 Aladdin kit house catalog https://www.flickr.com/photos/daily-bungalow/sets/72157611591126849/with/3138471025/

--And in case you've never seen this: A TRIBUTE TO TINPLATE from the days before everything was made of molded plastic http://bigindoortrains.com/primer/buildings/lackie/tinplate.htm

1 comment:

  1. I had something similar to this in the 60's but very small and not nearly as nice!

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