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23.01.2022 The Hinkler plane was made in Germany by Gunthermann. It’s a simple toy from the Gunthermann range and stamped for an Australian market to celebrate Hinkler being the first person to fly solo from England to Australia, arriving in Bundaberg in February 1928. #toycollection #australiantoys #madeingermany #antiquetoys #vintagetoys #tinplatetoys #tinplateplane #toyplane #antiquetintoy #gunthermann #günthermann #blechspielzeug #berthinkler #hinkler #aeroplane #vintageaviation #bundaberg
22.01.2022 It’s nearly 100 years since Ross and Keith Smith, along with Shiers and Bennett, arrived in Adelaide to win the Great Air Race from England to Australia, having made it to Darwin the previous November. #boardgames #boardgame #epicflight #heroesoftheskies #smithbrothers #vickersvimy #aviationhistory #longdistanceflight #southaustralianhistory #sirrosssmith #greatairrace #australiantoys #toycollection #antiquetoys #vintagetoys
21.01.2022 Here's a wooden biscuits truck made in Melbourne by Toycraft around 1950. Brockhoff’s was a Melbourne biscuit maker which merged with Arnott’s in 1964. #australiantoys #toycollection #antiquetoys #vintagetoys #woodtruck #toytruck #antiqueadvertising #biscuittruck #ovencrispbiscuits #toycraft #madeinmelbourne
20.01.2022 These two clowns carrying a monkey in a cage would have been made in Germany over 100 years ago. I discovered it locally in the Adelaide Hills in a one room shop in my home town. #toycollection #antiquetoys #tinplatetoys #clockworktoys #madeingermany #clowns #monkey #vintagetoys #gunthermann
20.01.2022 The Quack Quack Hunt money box made in Adelaide by Simpson’s in the early 1930s. Simpson’s made a smallish number of toys and money boxes and they’re very rare, but they have some of the best quality lithography and imaginative artwork of the Australian tinplate toys of the era. #toycollection #australiantoys #moneybox #antiquetoys #vintagetoys #tinplatetoys #quackquack #goose #duck #fox #rabbit #hunting #foxhunting #foxhuntingaustralia
19.01.2022 Orange Drops Lifesavers! This truck has the phone number to the radiator for the Lifesavers company in Sydney in the mid 1920s, and was probably made in Sydney. #orangedrops #lifesavers #australiantoys #toycollection #madeinsydney #antiquetoys #vintagetoys #tintoys #biscuittin #leckieandgray #antiqueadvertising #orange #hayshed #adelaidehills
18.01.2022 Made in Melbourne in the early 1930s by Leckie and Gray, this is a little milk jug from one of my favourite toys - the Australian sporting animals tea set. This has a brush tailed possum playing hockey! #toycollection #australiantoys #leckieandgray #madeinmelbourne #tinplatetoys #antiquetoys #vintagetoys #tinteaset #teaset #milkjug #brushtailedpossum #possum #hockey #australiansport #1930s
18.01.2022 This Bakelite plastic truck was made in Sunshine, western Melbourne, by Haxby Bros. It was first advertised in 1945. This toy and hundreds more are described and illustrated in my book 'Australian Toys'. Available in all good bookshops, and via this link: https://www.bookdepository.com/Australian-To/9781925556438
16.01.2022 Congratulations to Carville Stewart on the publication of his book about New Zealand made vehicle toys. Carville has managed to clear up a long standing mis-attribution of this truck and others like it. It was made by Abingdons in Wellington, and not Jomax. I was pleased to see my Shell tanker make the cut for Carville’s book! The Toy Buyer's Guide shows this truck available for sale in Australia in June 1945. #madeinnewzealand #shelltanker #shell #fueltanker #antiqueadvertising #toyfueltanker #abingdons #toycollection #antiquetoys #vintagetoys #toytruck
14.01.2022 I love this little dexterity game. It has advertising for Harry Crabb’s store in Oxford Street Paddington in Sydney. The fire station was built in 1900 and Crabb’s store had changed its name by 1902, giving a date for this toy. I assume it was made in Germany. The fisherman is trying to catch what looks like a ball of string with ‘Harry’ in the middle. #toycollection #australiantoys #antiquetoys #vintagetoys #dexteritygames #oxfordstreetsydney #paddington #paddingtonsydney
13.01.2022 I love these train destination signs made by FW Strong in Melbourne in the mid to late 1940s. They were made from recycled match tins and were available with scrolling signs with towns for different Australian states. #australiantoys #toycollection #antiquetoys #vintagetoys #trainsign #wallaroo
13.01.2022 Tinplate drum made in Melbourne by Leckie and Gray in the 1930s. As with all toys by this maker, the graphics are very strong. #australiantoys #toycollection #antiquetoys #vintagetoys #toydrum #madeinmelbourne #marchingsoldiers #tindrum
11.01.2022 The Easter bunny is on my lawn already! This one was made in Melbourne in the late 1940s by Durra & Baum. #australiantoys #toycollection #antiquetoys #vintagetoys #woodentoys #rabbit #easterbunny #madeinmelbourne #jacklittle
10.01.2022 It’s springtime, which is the time to photograph a yacht on the creek. This one, with a cardboard sail and wooden mast, was made in Melbourne by British Plastics in the mid 1950s. #australiantoys #toycollection #toyboat #toyyacht #sailingboat #wintercreek #vintagetoys #adelaidehills
09.01.2022 This bus was made by the German firm Bing and appears in their 1909 catalogue. This toy came from the collection of the famous Australian painter Pro Hart. #toycollection #madeingermany #prohart #clockworktoy #toybus #doubledeckerbus #blechspielzeug #bingtoys #antiquetoys #vintagetoys #tinplatetoys #harrylauder #londonbus #pearssoap #oxo #antiqueadvertising
07.01.2022 A set of stacking blocks made in Australia around 1920. This happy digger is using an upturned German helmet as an ashtray! There is an Eskimo card but no block face with the image. The dapper looking man is ‘Frenchman’. #toycollection #australiantoys #antiquetoys #vintagetoys #stackingblocks #woodenblocks #woodentoys #digger #anzac #anzacday2020
07.01.2022 This beautiful little wagon was made by my favourite manufacturer - Leckie and Gray - in Melbourne in the early 1930s. It’s got brilliant bold graphics and a really nice simplicity. #madeinmelbourne #toycollection #leckieandgray #australiantoys #antiquetoys #vintagetoys #tinplatetoys #tintoys #expressdelivery
06.01.2022 1950s cardboard Swallow & Ariell Biscuits sample truck; made in Melbourne - it's a fragile survivor!
05.01.2022 Boomaroo Comet - a Land speed record car toy first advertised in 1948. It was based on George Eyston’s Thunderbolt which held the speed record from 1937 - 1939. Kingsbury made a similar toy in the USA in the late 1930s. #toycollection #australiantoys #boomaroo #madeinsydney #comet #landspeedrecord #antiquetoys #vintagetoys #clockworktoys #kingsbury
04.01.2022 These wooden construction sets were made in Fitzroy in inner Melbourne by Novelty Toy Works about 100 years ago. The relevant page from my book has my attempt at the cottage on the box cover, as well as a wireless pole. #australiantoys #toycollection #constructionset #constructiontoys #woodentoys #modelhouse #modelcottage #fitzroy #northfitzroy #antiquetoys #vintagetoys #toybook
03.01.2022 Today is National Aboriginal and Torres Straight Islander Children's Day. I reckon I'm lucky to be able to share this country with such a magnificent people. It seems like the right day to post this board game, which was made in Melbourne by GN Raymond in the 1950s, with artwork by Jesse Mackintosh.
02.01.2022 Toycraft made this advertising truck in the late 1940s in Melbourne. Creamoata was a New Zealand brand of oat porridge which was also sold in Australia. A number of Toycraft advertising trucks are illustrated on page 97 of my book 'Australian Toys; A Collection'. #toycollection #australiantoys #toycraft #creamoata #sergeantdan #oatporridge #porridge #breakfast #advertising #antiqueadvertising #vintagetoys #antiquetoys #woodentoy #newzealand #madeinmelbourne
02.01.2022 This toy came out of an Adelaide estate in the mid 1980s - I’ve owned it for about 35 years! It’s a fine early Japanese made copy of a simple German made Bing racer. It has a forward / reverse clockwork mechanism which still works perfectly. #toycollection #madeinjapan #antiquetoys #vintagetoys #clockwork #clockworktoy #tinplatetoys #tinplate #racingcar #bing #blechspielzeug
01.01.2022 Molassomint Lifesavers! Tinplate sweet container truck made by James Marsh in Melbourne in the 1930s. #toycollection #australiantoys #antiquetoys #tinplatetoys #antiqueadvertising #lifesavers #advertisingantiques #madeinmelbourne
