Japanese Tin Toy

"It was made in Japan in the 1950s and was one of the last large tin friction toys ever made," said Rodney Ross, museum curator.

Japanese Tin Litho Toy Fire Engine In The Original Box by KAT, Circa 1950 Measures - 3"h x 2.75w x 7"d

Japan mid-century modern tin spaceship Moon Traveler Apollo-z Nomura Toys, 1960s Collectible game mod.

Beautiful orange body with a black top with all it's chrome. Interior is a plaid, very cool. Wheels all roll fine. Although it was hardly played with the friction motor in the rear d...

Linemar Tin wind-up Minnie Mouse toy with original box. Seated in her yellow and blue rocking chair, Minnie swings back and fourth when wound, all the while appearing to be knitting...

This heavy tin friction toy was made in 1952 by Tatsuya in Osaka, Japan, and is an exact replica of the full sized truck, bearing all of the markings, menus and "\Watch For Children"...

Rare and collectable toy tin friction car by Asc Aoshin of japan, circa 1966.

Futuristic Roadster 1956 Japanese tin car complete with acrylic bubble. This particular car from Line Mar completely captures the 1956 future car concepts and puts it in tin and wit...

Bandai metallic blue Japanese metal and plastic Rolls- Royce Silver Cloud Sedan hardtop. Made in Japan in the 1960s. Metal body with rubber tires. Rear window and steering wheel is ...

This is an old Japanese toy car, heavily rusted with age. Its form appears to resemble that of a Porsche, and it is believed to have been manufactured in the post‑war Showa period (1...

This is an old toy car made in Japan. It was made in the late Showa period, and the body is mainly made of tinplate. The tires are made of rubber, and the driver's boy is made of pla...

Gorgeous vintage sheet metal and plastic Toy. Please see all photos for exact condition. Friction works, but does not spark. Measures approx. 5" long. Marked HAJI, Made in Japan. I t...

This and 16 other late fifties and early sixties japanese tin toys have come out of the attic. The Isetta is in magnificent condition with little blemishes not really worth noting.

Made of tin with a rubber tail, this toy was manufactured by The Nomura Toy Industrial Company Ltd., Japan; note "T.N" designation in parallelogram on the underneath (see image), thi...

Japanese tin mechanical bank features a rocket launcher mounted on the top surface of the body which fires a missile (penny or coin) into outer space, as represented by a globe like ...

Excellent and all original condition tinplate lithographed and hand painted all tin toy airplane "Made in Japan". Simulates a B-52 American bomber with "USAF" (United States Air Forc...

Japanese tin mechanical tin toy from the 1940s to 1950's in the shape of a dragonfly, which features flapping wings, once the 'beast' ist put in motion via it's wheels.

Fantastic tin litho friction Chevy Corvair c1960 in very good condition, near mint. Ralph Nadar of course made the Corvair infamous in his book, "Unsafe At Any Speed" which led to th...

About: This is a VW Beetle tin toy with rubber tires and original Taiyo Japan maker's mark.

Japanese from the mid fifties. Believe this to be an hard to find model in this condition.

This wonderful, charming and pleasing action wind up toy was manufactured by HTC Mikuni Company of Japan, circa 1950s.

Fabulous windup speedboat, Speed Queen, from the late 1950s. Working great and ready for action. Rust free with great color retention. Motor works great. Missing its spotlight.

This is an old tin toy truck made in Japan, believed to date back to the early Showa period (1920s–1940s).

Diminutive late 1940s "penny toy like" wind-up tin toy platform train modern and sleek looking for that era; it is hand painted and lithographed in bright colors of orange and yellow...

Fabulous windup tin Litho car in excellent vintage condition with minimal wear. Very colorful with the driver steering the car, when it hits something it automatically goes into a re...

San Francisco trolley toy Friction cable car; made of all tin; important to note because this was the first of it's kind having been made in the 1950s.

It was manufactured in the 1950's by well known Japanese maker Nomura Toy Industrial Co., Ltd. Tokyo, Japan; made for the American market (See image of makers mark on the base "T.N.").

Japanese wind-up toy known and marketed as "Happy The Violinist" marked with the logo "TPS" for Tokyo Plaything Shokai.

Fabulous Rambler station wagon in two tone green with white roof. A blast from the past, The Station Wagon, survivor of the suburbs. In excellent vintage condition with minimal wear....

Classical Japanese wind-up toy indicative of those made and imported from Japan in the late 1950s-early 1960s.

The celluloid Santa and tin tricycle indicate a mid-1950s manufacture for this charming Japanese wind up toy which comes with the original box in which it was shipped.

From my own collection is this "Bear Reading a Book" known as "Cubby" and "Made in Japan" wind-up toy. This is a great learning and teaching device for children; in excellent and nea...

Fabulous and rare to the market near mint tin Litho toy car by Bandai Japan. A Chevy Convertible that was never played with so it is in excellent vintage condition with only age from...

Midcentury Japanese Tin Litho Toy Car Plymouth Station Wagon by Bandai.

Fabulous Chrysler Imperial in Red & Black 2 door sedan. In excellent vintage condition with minimal wear. Came from a lot of 14 cars that were hardly used at all. Near mint as it gets.

About Charming colorful tin toy windup elephant toy with plastic ears and a soft plastic trunk.

Entitled "Mechanical Santa Claus with Bell", this charming all tin toy is lithographed in Christmas colors of red, white, green, yellow, and flesh tones.

This bank is quite scarce and was made for American consumption; indicated on the back of the bank is the marking "Made in Japan" revealing it's manufacturing genesis. The bank is ma...

A unique and quite scarce bank, made in Japan by the Marusan Company for the American market in the 1950s; this all tin bank is known as (according to the graphics on the original bo...

Rare and collectable toy tin friction car by asc aoshin of Japan circa 1966.

Nicely lithographed all around ,this amazing bank was made in Japan in the early 1950's by the "Wonderful Toy Company".

Wagon master, Western chariot battery operated toy with 2 horses. Made in Japan by Modern toys in the 1960s.

Impressive Tin toy train by his size! This Toy express train is 26.57 inch / 67.50 cm long, and made in Japan by ATC in the 1950s.

Made by Nomura of Japan is this C-Cell Robby the Robot

A Ichiko "ride'em" mechanical friction Mercedes Benz 300SE toy tin car. Rare larger scale example originally intended as a riding toy. Pristine/unused with original packaging/box.

During the years of storage, the box does have some little traces. Vintage Toys - Vintage Japanese Toys - Vintage Ichiko Toys - Tin Toys - Boxed Tin Toys - Mercedes Benz Collecta...

Perhaps the wildest action of all the Lehman toys, said to resemble Ernest Paul Lehman's temperament (founder of the company), "Balky Mule" was first manufactured in 1897 in Berlin (...

This antique mechanical toy is unsigned, but presumed to have been made in Europe, possibly England or Austria in approximately 1880 and done in the period Victorian style. The toy d...

Manufactured circa 1935 by The J. Chein Company in Harrison, New Jersey, this vintage tin toy, when wound up, depicts a young boy in islander garb, trying to ride an alligator who da...

Antique toys like this (wind ups) are difficult to find in outstanding operating condition as this one (see the video attached) because of the rough play they would have received fr...

Very difficult antique toy to come by, especially to find with the original box, as this example. In excellent and all original condition and paint in bright blue, white, and yellow ...