March 8, 2022
Playful Plastics: Vintage Plastic Toys Part 1
Man-made plastics began to be used in the production of toys quite soon after they emerged in the nineteenth century.
Monthly hand-picked collection highlights, bringing you the most entertaining, interesting, and beautiful pieces from the Collectors Quests vault.
March 8, 2022
Man-made plastics began to be used in the production of toys quite soon after they emerged in the nineteenth century.
February 3, 2022
Both new immigrants from Russia, Rose and Morris met in New York in 1889 and were married that same year. By 1907, they had started a nationwide craze for a little handmade stuffed bear they put in their shop window...
January 4, 2022
From the 18th to the 20th centuries came a proliferation in sewing notions that were not only useful, but also highly decorative - and often quite amusing.
November 25, 2021
While they started out manufacturing fenders and ammunition boxes for the Canadian Military during WWII, Lincoln Specialties would later become the producers of pressed steel trucks cherished by Canadian children of the 1950s and collectors of today.
October 29, 2021
Coca-Cola, Pepsi, 7-Up… These fizzy beverages have become iconic symbols of American culture – not only through their own real or perceived merits, but through decades of strategic advertising and […]
September 24, 2021
While dollhouses may seem like timeless childhood playthings, this hasn’t always been the case – when they first emerged in the 17th century, they weren’t designed for children or playing! […]
September 1, 2021
The E. Rosen Company (a.k.a. “Schoolhouse Candy Company”, as it came to be called) was founded in 1912 by seventeen-year-old Rhode Islander Samuel Rosen, with the $1600 his parents had painstakingly saved to send him to university