General Collecting
St. Petersburg Toys Store- Old, vintage and Antique Toys for Sale in St Pete, FL
St. Petersburg Toy Store- Old, vintage and Antique Toys for Sale in St Pete, FL Stating the not-so-obvious, AntiqueToys.com is located on the West coast of Florida and has a brick and mortar toy store presence. Toys featured on this site can be reviewed in person. We sell old toys, vintage toys, and antique…
Read MoreChicago Toy Show 2017 Review and Trends
Chicago Toy Show 2017 Review and Trends Fresh from the toy collecting and research field of Chicago, I pause to reflect on a great journey to the Chicago Toy Fair held at the Kane County Fairgrounds. Most younger toy collectors or distant toy buyers may never have a chance to visit this behemoth in person; but…
Read MoreChicago Toy Show is coming– Visit us!
Chicago Toy Show is coming– Visit us! Antique Toys & Ed will be at the Chicago Toy show this Sunday, April 23rd, 2017. Come see our table and visit. Also, we can take consignments and help with appraisals. See you there! http://www.chicagotoyshow.com Ed
Read MoreToy collecting is no longer child’s play!
Toy collecting is no longer child’s play! By Brent Harrelson of Toy collecting is a relatively recent phenomenon in the United States. It started to get organized in the mid-60s with the formation of numerous collecting societies including The Antique Toy Collectors of America, The Mechanical Bank Collectors of America, and The American Train Collectors…
Read MoreDemise of Ebay, Stagnation of the Web, Rising of the Auction Houses, and an Evolution for Toy Buying!? Toys for sale in the Future
Dig deep into your sub conscience and you will agree that the web has been pushed sideways for phone “Aps.” The growth of the web is flat. I’ll argue that E-bay as an auction house for toys is steadily eroding. They are evolving into a store front with little interest in proper auctions (in my…
Read MoreAntique Tin Toys and a Sojurn in Japan
February 2017 started with a bang and a long awaited trip to Japan. Thank you to my gracious friends from around the world that met up and hosted! One would think that Japan was going to have wall-to-wall toys for the picking. Older visions in my mind conjured up images of stuffed toy shops waiting for customers.…
Read MoreTin Toy Collector and Florida Visit
Tin Toy Collector and Florida Visit With a bit of delay, I’d like to share some photos that highlight a great visit to a Florida tin collector’s home. Mr D was kind enough to host me and talk toys; afterwards we toured his collection and saw some of the best in Lehmann toys as…
Read MoreMiami Toy Show
Our trip down to the 2017 Miami toy show was quite an adventure and great opportunity to network. Steve Fuller organized the annual event right in the heart of the north’s big winter; perfect for planning a southern vacation. This year we went from the west coast of Florida down I-75 and made it to…
Read MoreWorld’s Most Expensive Toys– Yes, they are Antiques
World’s most expensive Toys Searching for valuable toys and internet research is fraught with mistakes, exaggerations, misrepresentations, and assumptions. I constantly get asked “Did you get a load of that article on the World’s most expensive toys? Barbie? GI Joe? Gundam? Something seems off.” Let me reframe the question, qualify, then correct. For me,…
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