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Toys For Sale
Antique Child's Folk Art Sleigh
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
Handmade antique child's wood Folk Art sleigh.
Category
Late 19th Century American Folk Art Antique Toys
Materials
Wood
Mid-Century Remote Control Model Airplane
Located in Queens, NY
American (1950s) hand made model airplane with working engine and remote control.
Category
20th Century American Mid-Century Modern Toys
Materials
Paper
Black Leather Stuffed Elephant Toy
Located in North Hollywood, CA
Hand-sewn black leather stuffed elephant figurine toy.
He will make a wonderful gift for anyone who loves elephants.
In the style of Dimitri Omersa'...
Category
Late 20th Century Indian Mid-Century Modern Toys
Materials
Leather
Vintage Toy, Schuco Examico 4001 Car, 1950s
Located in Roma, IT
This Schuco Examico 4001 car is a wind up mechanical toy car, made between 1950s/60s.
Working stick shift and reverse.
Vintage toy made in tinplate and plastic.
Lighthly scrat...
Category
Mid-20th Century German Toys
Materials
Metal
Painted Rocking Horse
Located in Washington, DC
A painted rocking horse, with original mane, tail, saddle, bridel and original old paint.
Category
Early 20th Century American Toys
Materials
Leather, Wood, Paint
$4,800
Folk Art Decorative Carved Wooden Horse in Original Paint
Located in Tetbury, Gloucestershire
19th century carved wooden horse in original paint.
Category
19th Century French Antique Toys
Materials
Wood
Vintage Barber Chair for Children, Germany ca. 1950s
Located in Berghuelen, DE
Vintage Barber Chair for Children, Germany ca. 1950s
A vintage barber shop children chair. With rotatable height adjustment and a wooden ho...
Category
Early 20th Century German Victorian Toys
Materials
Leather, Wood
1990s Michael Graves Chess and Checkers Postmodern Set Maplewood Board Modern
Located in Philadelphia, PA
1990s Michael Graves Chess and Checkers Postmodern Set Maplewood Modern Board. Item features a maplewood board with black and white resin chess pieces, ...
Category
1990s Modern Toys
Materials
Maple
Ko Verzuu for Ado, Mid-Century Modern, Wood Car Construction Netherlands Toy
Located in Barcelona, Barcelona
Toy designed by Ko Verzuu, circa 1950.
Manufactured by ADO in Netherlands.
Blue trailer with wooden wheel and set of blocks.
Signed with an ADO metal plate.
In good origina...
Category
1950s Dutch Mid-Century Modern Vintage Toys
Materials
Wood
$614 Sale Price
35% Off
Unusual Iron Welded Handmade Folk Art Locomotive, Train
Located in Buffalo, NY
Unusual iron welded handmade folk art locomotive, train, very well executed. Artist /maker unknown.
Category
20th Century American Folk Art Toys
Materials
Steel, Iron
Set of Six Medium Size Vintage Breyer Horses (Box 4)
Located in Redding, CT
Set of Six Medium Size Vintage Breyer Horses. The set consists of four brown toned horses and two whiter toned horses, one having appaloosa spots. Sizes vary by inches. Not all are e...
Category
1970s American Vintage Toys
Materials
Plastic
$425 Sale Price / set
28% Off
1940s Tether Car Powered by Original Super Cyclone Engine
By Rexner
Located in Hampstead, QC
This original 1940 Rexner Zipper Tether Car Racer with its streamlined design is in excellent condition. It is powered by a Super Cyclone .60...
Category
Early 20th Century American Streamlined Moderne Toys
Materials
Aluminum
Set of 3 Myanmarese dolls
Located in Munich, DE
Discover cultural heritage with these 3 antique Myanmarese puppet dolls— three beautifully crafted pieces once used in traditional puppeteering, brimming with history and artistic de...
Category
20th Century Toys
Materials
Wood
$1,170 / set
Original Brown Painted Wood Rocking Horse on Green Rocker, Sweden circa 1900's
Located in Round Top, TX
It is the worn look that creates the wonderful appeal of this original painted and carved rocking horse from Sweden.
The brown/brick paint has been distressed (some missing, see photo of direct front). Note also the cracked leather ears, carved and painted black mane and leather bridle with brass accents. Real horse hair was used to create the tail.
Sold in used vintage condition. Solid, stable on original green painted rocker...
Category
Early 20th Century Swedish Country Toys
Materials
Leather, Wood, Paint
Vintage Hand Cranked Wooden Toy w Pull String
Located in Pasadena, TX
Vintage Hand Cranked Wooden Toy w Pull String beautifully crafted vintage wooden toy features a classic hand-crank mechanism paired with a pull str...
Category
Late 20th Century Toys
Materials
Wood
$176 Sale Price
20% Off
American Salesman Sample Late 19th Century Wooden Flat Bed Cargo Wagon
Located in Incline Village, NV
Salesman Sample : Late 19th century. American (4) wheeled hand carved all wooden horse drawn flat bed cargo wagon, in excellent condition with original red st...
Category
1890s American Folk Art Antique Toys
Materials
Wood
Sterling Silver Baby Rattle and Teething Ring
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Sterling silver baby rattle and teething ring- a blue plastic tether with a sterling silver rattle / bell - the perfect gift for the baby that has everyt...
Category
20th Century Mid-Century Modern Toys
Materials
Sterling Silver
"Lady and Baby by The Wishing Well" Still Bank, German, circa 1910
Located in Incline Village, NV
Very interesting wooden still bank with lots going on. All hand-carved of wood with four small circular risers elevating the base. There is a water pump with a bucket hanging from it and a metal pumper attached to the top. A hand-carved and painted brown pine tree is attached at the opposite corner with a large water well to the other corner. A lady with outstretched arms and a "King Cole" type headdress seems to be reaching out to her baby dressed in green who is lying down on top of the well, next to the coin slot. Perhaps she is about to bathe her. A bird looks on from atop the perch protruding from the pump. Dominant hand painted colors are different shades of brown and all original with no repaint. Very nice all original paint and condition with a small chip missing here and there to this handmade, kind of "folksy", and very well done bank (see images). A round circular key lock trap for releasing the coins is on the underneath, along with "Wishing Well German" handwritten on the opposite corner (see image). Whether written by an earlier collector or maker is not known.
Dimensions: 4" square x 3 5/8" high.
A unique one of a kind piece to add to a collection of still banks and a nice addition to a Folk Art collection (from my own collection).
I am a leading specialist in the field of antique coin...
Category
1910s German Folk Art Vintage Toys
Materials
Wood
Weathered Folk Art Miniature Shop Counter 1950s
Located in Meer, VAN
Weathered Folk Art Miniature Shop Counter, Europe, 1950s.
This miniature shop counter likely started its life as a well loved toy. Now is a very attractive decorative folk art piece...
Category
Mid-20th Century European Folk Art Toys
Materials
Wood
Mechanical Bank "Saluting Sailor", circa 1920s
Located in Incline Village, NV
This mechanical bank "Saluting Sailor" was manufactured in the 1920s by Saalheimer & Strauss Company in Germany. It is in excellent all original condition and brightly hand painted in colors of red, white, blue, yellow, and grey. There is an ever so slight crease to the left on dial.
The bank operates as follows:
Press down on the lever in front just beneath the steering wheel.
The sailor raises his right arm and lowers his left arm revealing a slot on the right side of the bank where the sailor's left arm was, inviting the deposit of a coin (see image). Release the lever, and the arms return to their original position (see image).
Coins are removed via the original key lock trap.
The bank measures:
6 3/4" high
4 7/8" wide
2" deep
I am a leading specialist in the field of antique mechanical coin banks...
Category
Early 20th Century German Folk Art Toys
Materials
Tin
Morris cooper 1966
Located in Saint ouen, FR
Morris cooper
1966
Very nice body and engine restoration
Rare sunroof option
13523 kms odometer
38000 euros
Category
1960s Vintage Toys
Materials
Steel
$44,922
Gigantic Original German Steiff Mohair Elk "Studio Animal" c1960s Five Feet Long
Located in Chicago, IL
Life-sized, mohair Steiff Elk, probably from the 1960s. Steiff referred to these life-size stuffed creatures as, “studio animals” and were very expensive when new. As I child, we wou...
Category
1960s German Vintage Toys
Materials
Mohair, Wool
$2,450 Sale Price
36% Off
Child Sized Wooden Motorcycle
Located in Oklahoma City, OK
This tiny treasure has been road hard and put up wet! Wood carved child’s motorcycle - circa 1970s. Painted details are perfectly patinaed. Functiona...
Category
1970s Bohemian Vintage Toys
Materials
Wood
American Country Painted and Carved Wooden Rocking Horse
Located in Queens, NY
American Country (20th Century) carved and painted double sided rocking horse.
Category
20th Century American Country Toys
Materials
Paint, Wood
$175
Vintage Toy, HKN Motorcyclist, Made by Huki Kienberger, 1950s
Located in Roma, IT
This HKN Motorcyclist is a rare vintage toy.
Vintage toy representing a motorcyclist riding a red motorcycle.
Made in tin by Huki Kienberger pro...
Category
Mid-20th Century German Toys
Materials
Metal
Large Antique Rocking Horse on Curved Wooden Rockers
Located in Bradford-on-Avon, Wiltshire
Large Antique Rocking Horse on Curved Wooden Rockers
Large carved wooden rocking horse on curved rockers attributed to Lines Brothers; the original paint...
Category
Early 20th Century English Toys
Materials
Wood
ANTIQUE CIRCA 1920 ART DECO CASION CHIP POKER SET WiTH BAKELITE HANDLE CASE
Located in West Sussex, Pulborough
Royal House Antiques
Royal House Antiques is delighted to offer for sale this very nice circa 1920 Art Deco casino chip / poker set in the original wood case with Bakelite handle
A...
Category
1920s English Art Deco Vintage Toys
Materials
Plastic, Wood
Set of Six Medium Size Vintage Breyer Horses (Box 3)
Located in Redding, CT
Set of Six Medium Size Vintage Breyer Horses. The set consists of four brown toned , one white toned and one grey toned Appaloosa . Sizes vary by inches. Not all are exactly the same...
Category
1970s American Vintage Toys
Materials
Plastic
$476 Sale Price / set
20% Off
Original Vintage Toy, Wind Up Jeep Car
Located in Roma, IT
This wind up jeep car is an original vintage metal toy.
Unknown manufacturer and age.
Functioning but lightly damaged mechanisms.
Not in p...
Category
Early 20th Century French Toys
Materials
Metal
Mid-Century Modern Red Colored Steel Miniature Crane
Located in Doornspijk, NL
Steel toy crane with lots of appeal. It is plain and pretty, sitting on four wheels. The hook really works well.
Category
Mid-20th Century Dutch Mid-Century Modern Toys
Materials
Steel
Early 20th Century Brass Indian Temple Toy on Wheels
By Rajhastani
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Large sized (13" height) Indian temple toy. Camel with rider. Very rare to see this size.
India is famous for its brass and copper metal craftsmanship. It ...
Category
Early 20th Century Indian Toys
Materials
Brass, Bronze
$790 Sale Price
50% Off
Wooden Toy Horse
Located in Brecht, BE
Charming wooden toy horse, always a great decorative item in a child’s room.
Category
Early 20th Century French Toys
Materials
Softwood
$2,955
Tin Litho Penny Toys Stake & Tanker Truck and a Sedan by Meier
Located in Port Jervis, NY
3 fabulous tin Litho Penny Toys vehicles. A stake truck, a tanker truck and a sedan car. All in excellent vintage condition with minimal wear.
Category
1930s Spanish Industrial Vintage Toys
Materials
Metal
Vintage Toy, Wind up Locomotive Wells-Brimtoy 7040, by Wells-Brimtoy, 1930s
Located in Roma, IT
This Wind up Locomotive Wells-Brimtoy 7040 is an originale mechanical toy.
Vintage wind up toy representing a locomotive.
Made in lithographed...
Category
Early 20th Century English Toys
Materials
Metal
Russian Midcentury Toy Truck from Wood
Located in Vienna, Austria
This wonderful wooden dump truck was made in USSR in the 1950s.
Lovely proportions, it´s not only a vintage toy, it´s work of art.
Condition in distress...
Category
1950s Russian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Toys
Materials
Metal
Vintage 1940s Folk Art Painted Iron Child Riding Horse Mounted on Custom Base
Located in Atlanta, GA
A vintage Folk Art painted iron old child riding horse from the mid-20th century mounted on a new custom base. Born in the first half of the 20th century, this charming vintage iron piece features a brown and black painted iron galloping horse mounted on a rectangular custom-made metal base. Its nicely weathered appearance and naive treatment will make this Folk Art 1940s...
Category
Mid-20th Century Folk Art Toys
Materials
Iron
Vintage Carousel Horse
Located in Napa, CA
Vintage Carousel Horse believed to be from the 18th century with wonderful worn distress finish.
Category
18th Century and Earlier Antique Toys
$7,500
Wood Circus Toy Mexican Lion Tamer Mechanic Traditional Folk Art Hand Painted
Located in Queretaro, Queretaro
By master artisans Sanjuana España Rodríguez and husband Guillermo Trejo Soriano (Guanajuato, México) have been known for hand crafting Mexican traditional toys. Sanjuana's late fath...
Category
2010s Mexican Folk Art Toys
Materials
Acrylic, Wood
$240 Sale Price / item
25% Off
1930s Jointed Betty Boop Fleischer Doll
Located in Mexico City, CDMX
Circa 1930. We offer this Jointed wooden Betty Boop doll by Fleischer in a green dress.
This is one of the first Betty Boop dolls that were created in...
Category
1930s Mexican Industrial Vintage Toys
Materials
Wood
Mexican Folk Art Woodcarving Alebrije Fortune Wheel Folkloric Art Oaxaca Toy
By Edilma Cruz Prudencio, Agustin Cruz Tinoco, Socorro Cruz Prudencio
Located in Queretaro, Queretaro
This colorful fortune wheel alebrije is made by Agustín Cruz Tinoco in Oaxaca Mexico.
“I came up with the idea as a toy for children,” says Mexican master wood carver Agustin Cruz ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Mexican Folk Art Toys
Materials
Wood, Paint
$3,000 Sale Price
21% Off
ANTIQUE Folk Art Ride On HORSE On Wheels, c. 1910
Located in Weehawken, NJ
Antique Original Folk Art Ride On Wooden Horse on Platform with Wheels, c. 1910. A stunningly handsome piece which stands on the original platform with functioning wheels. Painted on...
Category
1910s Folk Art Vintage Toys
Materials
Wood
$1,440 Sale Price
20% Off
Late 19th Century Large Painted Folk Art Hobbyhorse with Sea Glass Eyes
Located in Middleburg, VA
Late 19th Century Large Painted Folk Art Hobbyhorse with Sea Glass Eyes. America, 1880-1900. Measures: 26.5" H, 33" W, 11" D
Category
Late 19th Century American Folk Art Antique Toys
Materials
Wood
$1,920 Sale Price
20% Off
1930s Rodeo Clown on a Bull Pull Toy
Located in Lincoln, GB
Circa 1930 double sided metal pull toy of a rodeo clown sitting on a bull with articulated arms and legs that move when the wheels turn, all in multi coloured original paint
Category
20th Century Toys
Materials
Metal
Early 20th Century English Ventriloquist Dummy
Located in London, GB
Early 20th Century English Ventriloquist Dummy
An unusual example of a hand-crafted early 20th Century English ventriloquist dummy. With tailored made velour outfit with pearl but...
Category
1920s British Folk Art Vintage Toys
Materials
Cotton, Velvet, Wood, Paper
Vintage Toy, Military Toy Truck and Trailer
Located in Roma, IT
This military toy truck and trailer is a wind up toy truck with soldier and its own trailer.
Tin made. Dunlop balloon cord tyres.
Very good conditions...
Category
Mid-20th Century European Toys
Materials
Metal
19th C. Stoneware Children's Savings Pig Bank. England, Circa 1880
Located in Incline Village, NV
In the late 19th century the concept of thrift became a principle by which parents encouraged their children to safe money by putting their pennies into a "piggy bank", thus the proliferation of these items by pottery manufacturers, this particular example marked "SS" on the underneath indicating "A Smith Ltd.", Longton, England whose ceramic, china, and pottery business began in 1846 by Sampson Smith.
Nicely molded and in excellent condition, this proverbial pig themed penny bank is painted overall white with a multiplicity of green "spatter" spots, the pig standing on all fours has a twisted tail in back. The original finish is beautifully glazed resulting in a lovely patina to this completely original bank with no restoration or touch up paint of any kind and all of it's original hand paint intact.
Since these type of antique banks typically were made without a coin removal trap, the only way to extract the coins would have been the old "knife in the slot" method and retrieving the pennies one by one; or the more simpler method of smashing and breaking the bank, which is why locating these banks is very difficult, rendering a fine example particularly rare.
This example is a wonderful addition to a collection of authentic still banks, folk art, or for those who accumulate pig items. This recently came from an estate collection of pig still banks. A similar example is referenced as #633 "Two Toned Pig" in Andy Moore's "The Penny Bank Book" written in 1984 when collecting pottery banks...
Category
1880s English Folk Art Antique Toys
Materials
Stoneware
Swedish Antique Toy Rocking Horse, All Original, Origin: Sweden, circa 1870
Located in New York, NY
Swedish antique toy rocking horse, origin: Sweden, circa 1870 - 1900.
Beautiful, untouched, original condition including the paint, ...
Category
19th Century Swedish Folk Art Antique Toys
Materials
Iron
Dooling Mercury First Series Front Drive Tether Car 1939
By Dooling Brothers
Located in Hampstead, QC
This is a Dooling Mercury First Series tether car built in 1939 by the Dooling brothers, Tom, Russell and Harris. They began building racers in 1937 for their own pleasure. These e...
Category
1930s American Streamlined Moderne Vintage Toys
Materials
Aluminum, Metal
Antique Scandinavian Wooden Rocking Horse
Located in High Point, NC
With her mouth open in excitement, with her eyes glowing with enthusiasm, with her sleek body depicted in motion — this vintage rocking pony hand-carved in Scandinavia circa 1900 rad...
Category
Early 1900s Scandinavian Rustic Antique Toys
Materials
Wood
Multi Colored Brown & Beige 19thC Stoneware Large Size Pig Bank Austria Ca 1890
Located in Incline Village, NV
A marbleized brown with a beige hand painted underbelly dominates the color scheme to this excellent condition 19th century authentic stoneware Austrian still bank. This "piggy" bank...
Category
1890s Austrian Folk Art Antique Toys
Materials
Stoneware
Mechanical Bank Speaking Dog By The Shepard Co Ca 1885; with Original Wooden Box
By Shepard Hardware Company
Located in Incline Village, NV
Manufactured in 1884 by the Shepard Hardware Company in Buffalo, New York, this cast iron mechanical bank measures 7 1/8" long and is in excellent all original condition and paint, especially considering that the Shepard Company did not use a primer rendering their surface more vulnerable than say, the Steven's Company. There is no touch up or repaint, and no restoration of any kind. Colors of bright red on the dress, flesh tones, tan colored dog, and maroon base are all very bright and crisp. The bank is accompanied by the original wooden box in which it was originally shipped; a very special find and charming piece of Americana. Rare to find the original box. The bank and box came directly from an estate and the original owner, and I have owned it since then for over 35 years. The theme of the bank depicts a young Victorian girl playing with her golden retriever. It is one of only four antique mechanical banks...
Category
19th Century American Folk Art Antique Toys
Materials
Iron
Lever Modern Toys Car, Made in Japan by Modern Toys, 1940s
Located in Roma, IT
This Lever Modern Toys car is an original vintage toy.
Made in Japan by Modern Toys in 1940s.
When you pull the lever to the direction of the i...
Category
Mid-20th Century French Toys
Materials
Metal
Michel Aroutcheff " NESTOR BURMA " 2
Located in Saint ouen, FR
MICHEL AROUTCHEFF
"Daddy" of the mythical rocket, from Tintin, with a red and white checkerboard.
"NESTOR BURMA
" Casse pipe à la nation " (Breaking pipe to the nation)
Bumper car...
Category
Early 2000s Toys
Materials
Wood
Mid-Century Coca Cola Delivery Truck by Buddy L, C1960
By Buddy L. 1
Located in Port Jervis, NY
Fabulous buddy L Coca Cola delivery truck with aluminum hand truck from the late fifties early sixties. One rear tire is smaller by not much, it's a little dif...
Category
1960s American Mid-Century Modern Vintage Toys
Materials
Aluminum, Steel
1900 Salesman Sample Of A Step Back Cupboard
Located in Tarrytown, NY
1900 Salesman sample of a step back cupboard.
Category
Early 1900s Antique Toys
Materials
Wood
1929 Ford Trimotor Texaco Airplane
Located in Pasadena, TX
The 1929 Ford Trimotor Texaco Airplane is a highly detailed die-cast collectible model that pays tribute to the iconic aircraft from early American aviation history. Featuring the au...
Category
20th Century Toys
Materials
Plastic
Vintage Toy, Marx Toys Wind Up Chariot and Horses, Mid-20th Century
By Marx Toy Co.
Located in Roma, IT
This Marx Toys Wind up Chariot and Horses is a vintage mechanical toy representing a red chariot dragged by two painted tin horses.
Original...
Category
Mid-20th Century American Toys
Materials
Metal
Fully Restored Victorian Rocking Horse
Located in London, GB
A beautiful, fully restored Victorian rocking horse complete with a studded leather saddle, blue saddle blanket and leather reins and stirrups....
Category
Late 19th Century English High Victorian Antique Toys
Materials
Wood
Wood Toy Mexican Calavera Skeleton Day of the Dead Traditional Colorful Folk Art
Located in Queretaro, Queretaro
Master artisans Sanjuana España Rodríguez and husband Guillermo Trejo Soriano (Guanajuato, México) have been known for hand crafting Mexican traditional toys. Sanjuana's late father ...
Category
2010s Mexican Arts and Crafts Toys
Materials
Acrylic, Wood
Antique, New and Vintage Toys
Children as well as nostalgic grown-ups are still finding pleasure in toys and objects designed specifically for playtime that are, in comparison to today’s digital device-oriented distractions, far more modest in nature. Indeed, antique, new and vintage toys of years past — handmade folk-art toys such as wooden train sets, dolls, rocking horses and more — can be enjoyed by the young and old alike. In contemporary interiors, gently aging toys are wonderfully uncomplicated decorative objects primed for display in a cabinet or other case piece.
With their romantic appeal and frequent incorporation of natural materials, some vintage toys and folk-art toys are treasured collectibles, showcasing the beauty of handmade craftsmanship. Alongside other works characterized as folk art — in this case, visual art, typically reflective of a community’s culture and usually handmade by craftspeople working within a popular tradition — handcrafted vintage toys are historical works of art worthy of any collector’s mantel. These are toys that tell a story of the time in which they were produced and the people who produced them.
Like any artifact, toys provide a window into the past. The ornamental dolls of the Victorian era, for example, produced in Germany and England, made of ceramics such as porcelain and dressed in textured fabrics, speak to the fashion of the era and will add a pop of color and a decorative flourish to the neutral corners of your home.
Mid-century modern toys are as sophisticated as the widely cherished furniture of the era. As much as they thought good design for the home should be available for all, iconic American design duo Charles and Ray Eames believed in making durable and interesting products for kids too. Today, their Eames Elephant is available from Vitra and Herman Miller, and it doesn’t even require a digital screen.
Explore a unique collection of antique and vintage toys as well as folk-art toys on 1stDibs.
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