April 9, 2024
Kingsbury MOVIESCOPE OPTICAL FLIP BOOK mini MOTOR DRIVEN TOYS CATALOG 1930's
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Kingsbury MOVIESCOPE OPTICAL FLIP BOOK mini MOTOR DRIVEN TOYS CATALOG 1930's Album Album Album Album Album Album Rare old "KINGSBURY MOTOR DRIVEN TOYS / SILVER ARROW MOVIESCOPE" published by Kingsbury Manufacturing Company, Keene, New Hampshire. Book contains 64 pages, 2 1/4 by 3 inches, staple bound, with red paper covers. Issued by the famous toy maker as a novelty item to stimulate sales in the 1930's, this unusual miniature book functions as both an illustrated sales catalog and a photo-sequence optical toy. Held horizontally, with "KINGSBURY MOTOR DRIVEN TOYS" as the title on the cover, the pages on right side show illustrations of the company's pressed steel toys, almost all powered by Kingsbury's distinctive patented wind-up mechanism, with model numbers, sizes, and prices, and in some cases with descriptions of special features and performance of the toy in motion. Held vertically, with "SILVER ARROW MOVIESCOPE" as the title on the cover, the bottom pages can be flipped through in sequence so the photographic illustrations give realistic optical illusion of movement, showing a man outside the Kingsbury factory launching one of their Silver Arrow line of airplane toys, which were made of thin, light weight metal, powered by twisted rubber bands. The man sets the toy on the pavement, and it rolls foreward, takes off,
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