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Tinplate clockwork toys for collectors
WARNING. The tinplate clockwork toys on this page are not children's playthings but collectors items and do not comply with Toy Safety legislation.
INDIA
There are several small factories in India which make fascinating clockwork tinplate toys from time to time. Production is always spasmodic, though, and at present the range is very limited.
CLOCKWORK
POLICE
PATROL
The small patrol vehicle races round the bends and in and out of the tunnel completing at least three laps when fully wound. Clockwork, 38 x 17cm.
XXXX- TX675
* TWO NEW TINPLATE POP-POP BOATS FROM INDIA *
Dirty and smelly with sharp edges! What more could you ask of a tin toy? An Indian company has recently started producing small quantities of unusually designed, oil-burning pop-pop boats. The workmanship is not the world's best, and there are many small scratches and flaws in the printing. But they are packaged in nicely-dated if not very sturdy packaging, and include a pipet for injecting water into the pipes, oil tray, wicks, and they have an adjustable rudder. None of the other pop-pop boats we have found over the years have been comparable, in size or design, and these boats are already 'making waves' in the world-tin-toy collectors' market.
POP
POP
TUG
BOAT
Unusual deep-bow design. 16 x 8 x 8cm.
XXXX-TX710
TINPLATE
TITANIC
Huge. Boasted as the world's largest commercially-made Pop-Pop Boar. 39 x 8 x 7cm. (Waiting list for this item)
XXXX-TX700
Nikko
Kogyo Kitahara From Japan
These are made with the original Nikko Kogyo tools from just-post-war Japan. Teruhisa Kitah, a Japanese sports-goods dealer, is also a fanatical collector of clockwork tin toys, and after obtaining the tooling is now reproducing these clockwork models. Each edition is strictly limited to 1,000 pieces worldwide and are very difficult to obtain. They are beautifully lithographed with vivid colours and contain the most complex and ingenious movements of any of the tin toys we offer.
CLOCKWORK
NEWS
DOG
The News Dog rapidly rings his bell while gradually turning his head and swinging the newspaper from left to right. Clockwork, 15cm.
XXXX-TX615
SCHYLLING
USA
The Schylling brothers in the USA design revivals of old tin toys, and have them made to high standards in China and Korea.
TINPLATE GOLFER
This delightful little thing, 7" long and made entirely of metal, is a remake of a 1920s favourite. Withdrawing and then releasing the sprung knob makes the figure putt the steel ball-bearing (three provided) up the slope and, with luck, or skill, into the recess.
XXXX-TX599
TINPLATE
SAN
FRANCISCO EXPRESS
Last year Schylling produced a strictly limited edition toy called New York
Express. Fortunately, although it is still limited, we have enough of this
superior music box version to offer it in the main catalogue. "I Left My
Heart in San Francisco" plays while the plane flies overhead and the train
proceeds through the tunnels. Large, chunky and extremely unusual. China,
Clockwork, 23cm. XXXX-TX592
CLOCKWORK
AERODROME
The clockwork mechanism, operated by a pull-and-release lever in the base, makes the aeroplanes fly rapidly round and round on their wire arms, propellers whirling. Entirely metal apart from the brightly coloured transparent plastic propellers. An attractive, unusual and well-finished model. Korea, 18cm.
XXXX-TX590
TINPLATE
FLYING
SAUCER
Schylling have re-made this item based on the 1950's original. It is slightly larger at 13cm, and with more colourful printing. As you push it along on its hidden wheels the central globe and springy antennae revolve. China, Friction. XXXX-TX597
Tin Toys From China
Tin Toys From Europe
Tinplate collectors model toys from Germany, Hungary, the Czech Republic, and Russia.
Tin Toys From Paya
An outline of the range from Paya of Spain.
Tin Toys From Other Countries
Tinplate clockwork toys from India, Japan, Korea, and USA.
* New range of Indian Pop-Pop Boats now available *
