Development of American Antique Toys Games Banks Dolls Etc. / Illustrated Book
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Double your traffic. Hundreds of superb color and black-and-white photographs supplement an in-depth text which reviews the history and production of early American toys. THE STORY OF AMERICAN TOYS: FROM THE PURITANS TO THE PRESENT � by Richard O’Brien, Artabras, Abbeville Press, NY, 1990. “It is with America’s earliest days that this comprehensive, gorgeously illustrated history begins, and it is at the threshold of the 1990’s that it ends. In between is a merry parade of the dolls, hoops, stilts, balls, and tops of the eighteenth century , the toy soldiers, rocking horses, clockwork toys, building blocks, steam engines, cast-iron vehicles, mechanical banks, magic lanterns, putty blowers (a pea-shooter sort of toy that racked up at least 2,880,000 sales), and toy ships of the nineteenth century, the air rifles, water pistols, cars, planes, replicas of comic-strip characters (Katzenjammer Kids, Popeye, the Peanuts gang, and many more), trains—including Ives, Lionel, American Flyer—Erector Sets, Raggedy Anns, Tinker Toys, Lincoln Logs, Tootsietoys, Tonka Trucks, Mr. Potato Head, Hula-Hoop, Barbie and Ken, Hot Wheels, Cabbage Patch Kids, Transformers and Go-Bots of our own century…. [This book] is, of course, a must for collectors. But it will be treasured by all and sundry of a nostalgic turn of mind, by those intrigued by Americana,
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