Case Toy Tractors much like other vintage farm toys are highly popular collectibles. These vintage Case farm toys fall are sought after by diecast toy collectors, advertising collectors and others who have a passion for some of the best made farm toys. While not quite as popular as antique John Deere toys, Case tractors, threshers, spreaders and other farm toys are gaining in poupularity each year.The J.I. Case Corporation was founded by Jerome Increase Case in 1847. The company built threshers. Case began manufacturing steam engines in 1869 and introduced its first steam traction engine in 1878. The company was well known steam tractors and threshers. In 1964 Tenneco a large Oil and Energy company purchased J.I. Case. In 1972 Case became the big tractor power specialist company when it began only producing tractors on the Ag side of its operations. Case became well known for its Traction King 4wds and high horse power row crop tractors. In 1985 J.I. Case became a full line company again when its parent company merged it with International Harvester to form Case International.
Wyandotte Toys For Sale
The Wyandotte Toy Company also known as All-Metal-Products Company, produced a fine line of metal toys from the 1920's through the 1950's. Their toys included construction vehicles, toy trains, western toy guns, planes and ships. Some of the most desireable are the toy guns. These metal toy trucks and vehicles stood the test of time and many remain today in excellent shape. I had an old Wyandotte log hauler and steam shovel that were highlights of my childhood. Below you will find a listing of several Wyandotte metal toys that are available through online auction. These listings are updated regularly so don't forget to bookmark the site and check back later.
If you dont want to buy a wyandotte truck online your next best bet is to attend some local auctions. If you keep your eyes peeled you can get a really nice truck at a reasonable price if there aren't any collectors in the crowd
Antique John Deere Toy Tractors
John Deere is one of the most well known of all the farm implement dealers in the world. It's no wonder antique and vintage John Deer tractors, wagons, spreaders, and other toys are so collectible. While there is a big market for these antique farm toys even the new John Deere toys produced are just as valuable.
Marx Train Sets
Marx Trains, cars, tracks and model train accessories are some of the most collectible in the antique toy train market. Marx trains from days gone by are still one of the most collectible of all the toy trains avaialble
Louis Marx Tin Toys
Louis Marx and Company began making tin toys such as making tinplate buildings, toy soldier's, toy dinosaurs, mechanical toys, toy guns, action figures, dolls, doll houses, toy cars, and HO scale and O scale toy trains in the early 1900's. Louis Marx was known as "The Toy King" by 1950's and they were the largest toy maker in the world. Collecting Marx toys has grown steadily in popularity for the last 20yrs.
Besides the standard tin toys made by Marx there is a huge demand for there windup toys. The space race of the 60's brought on a huge surge of space related toys made by Marx including various space ships, rockets and robots. All of these 1960's toys made by Marx are unique collectibles in their own right.
Buddy L Trucks
Buddy L truck and metal toys were born from the industrial minds of Moline Pressed Steel Company in East Moline, Illinois. Moline Pressed Steel Company was a big player in the automotive industry and produced fenders and other stamped metal products from 1910-1920's . It wasnt Until the mid 1920's that the y began making the Buddy "L" metal toys we have come to love. The Moline Press Steel Company changed its name in 1930 to Buddy "L" Manufacturing Company and produced the quality metal toys up until World War II when steel was need to support the war.
Or inventory of Buddy L toys is constantly changing and updated frequently. If you looking for that old steam shovel, outdoor train , dump truck , mail truck or delivery truck I'm sure you'll find it here. Those that actually played with the Buddy L trucks know the quality craftsmanship and detail that went into each of their toys. New collector for the Buddy L truks join the market every day. If metal toy trucks aren't your thing perhaps you might be more interested in wooden toy trucks and other wooden toys
Antique Farm Toys
Antique Farm toys are one of my favorite vintage toys to collect. They bring back memories of summers spent on my Grandpa's farm. Nothing beat having your own selection of toy John Deere, Farmall, Case, Fergueson, Ford, and Moline farm implements to play with as a kid especially if your family is from a farming back ground. Both modern and antique farm toys have become very hot in the collectibles market. Diecast tractors today come in almost identical replicas of the originals and cost nearly as much as some of the antique toy tractors.
You can get all kinds of antique farm toys including combines, tractors, manure spreaders, wagons and a large variety of barns, fences and animals. When collecting antique farm toys your only limited by your imagination.
Antique Toy Makers
I classify Antique Toys as those made pre 1960. Antique dealers, appraisers and collectors may disagree but that is ok. For my purposes it will do. Any toy produced after 1960 I consider a collectible toy. While there is a big market for collectible toys I’m going to try and stick to offering only those made before 1960. This might prove to be a difficult task as some of the most popular toy makers that began in the early 1900’s were either sold or continued making toy’s well into the 70’s and some are still in operation today. I’ll provide a list of some of the more common Antique Toy Makers here with some descriptions of each. This will be an ever-growing list that will expand as I add offerings to our store here at The Old Toy Box.
One of my favorite toy makers was Buddy “L” manufacturing which was known as Moline Pressed Steel Company. The Moline Press Steel Company changed its name in 1930 to Buddy "L" Manufacturing Company when it shifted its production from stamped automotive parts to the classic toy trucks we’ve come to love today
Another of my favorite toy makers is the “Louis Marx & Company” was founded in 1919 and by the mid 1950’s became the largest toy maker in the world. They are know for making tinplate buildings, toy soldier's, toy dinosaurs, mechanical toys, toy guns, action figures, dolls, doll houses, toy cars, and HO scale and O scale toy trains. Marx was known for making a less expensive toy that was readily available to everyone in its time. Often carried at local dime stores and retail chains. Marx continued producing toys into the 1970’s when they sold out to the Quaker Oats Company. The Marx robots and space toys of the 1960’s are a highly desirable collectible toy that had a big explosion in demand about 10 yrs ago.
Antique Toys
Antique Toys have long been a popular collectors item. There are many things that have added to the demand for vintage and antique toys. Probably the largest factor is the aging baby boomer population. Its natural as we grow older to long for thing from out past and what brings back better memories than our old toys that have now become antiques and collectibles.
Remember that old fire engine , dump truck or toy tractor you had as a kid. Didn't you cry for hours when you lost it in the sandbox or left it at the beach. Toys like old Buddy L construction trucks, toy John Deere farm implements, and many other of the quality made toys from years past are now highly sought after collectors items. Today's kids don't know what they are missing. With all the new fangled digital toys we have stifled the imagination of the younger generation. No longer do they pretend to be firemen, construction workers or farms when playing with toys. Today they act out the roles in video games and more often than not it involves violence and crime. I hope some day these kids look back on the antique toys of our era and realize what they have missed.