Vintage Japanese Wind-up Tin Toys - Names Makers Dates / Scarce Book

Description

Lavishly illustrated in color, this early out-of-print book is a pictorial guide to antique wind-up tin toys. Makers include Tomiyama, Momoya, Nihon Boeki, Marusan, Yonezawa, Masukaya, Kokyu Shokai, Bull Mark, Toply, Yoshi, Line Mar, Kuramochi, Kono Kakuzo, and many others.
WIND-UPS TIN TOY DREAMS
by Teruhisa Kitahara, Chronicle Books, SF, 1985.
Over 400 antique wind-up toys are illustrated in color and black-and-white, including cars and trucks, boats and submarines, airships and airplanes, stage coaches and fire engines, animals and birds of every kind, construction equipment, military vehicles and motorcycles, children and entertaining characters, Santa Claus items, and much, much more. All of these wind-up tin toys are crawling, racing, jumping, or performing a comical act. The book provides information on toy identity, dates, manufacturers, and dimensions. If you are a collector or dealer of wind-up tin toys, you will want a copy of this identification guide in your permanent reference library.
7.25” x 10.1” softback in very good condition. 127 pages.
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