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Jouets métalliques (Metallic toys)

128 pages
256 color photos

"Jouets en métal"(Metallic toys)
by Constance King

SUMMARY :
- The automatons
The masters of the 18th century, the golden age, outside France, assessment issues.
- Metallic toys
Hippomobile vehicles, small cars, boats, Lehmann's tin toys, airships and planes, 1-penny toys for the general public, the French manufacturing of metallic toys, English and american manufacturers, market understanding.
- Small-scale trains
Mechanical and steam models, the electricity era, rolling stock and accessories, maintenance.
- Small soldiers
Flat small soldiers, Concave moulding and semi-solid models.
- Steel sheet toys
- Main manufacturers of metallic toys and automatons..

Reference :
J-01
(French)

AVAILABILITY:
1 copy

Price :
EUR 40.00

Les jouets en fer-blanc
d'après-guerre

128 pages
256 color photos

"Jouets en fer blanc d'après-guerre"
( Postwar tine toys) by Jack Tempest

SUMMARY:

- Collecting postwar toys
- Tine figurines
- Famous characters
- Metallic vehicules
- Boats and planes
-Samll-scale trains
- Robots and special toys
- Other metallic toys
- Price list

Reference :
J-02
(French)

AVAILABILITY:
1 copy

Price :
EUR 40.00

L'âge d'or des jouets

252 pages
700 black and white, and color photos

"L'âge d'or des jouets"(The golden age of toys)
by Jac Remise and Jean Fondin

Though this book deals with toys designed between 1850 and 1914, it includes a long chapter about mechanical toys, automatons and mechanical music toys for children.

The subjects studied in this book:
The developping of traditional toys: first-joy toys, the miniaturized mens' world, war for a joke, family life for model girls, paper toys and parlour games.
The magicians' springtime: Automatons and small mechanical toys, steam machines, boats, trains, automobiles, airships and airplanes, the cinema ancestors, musical toys, electricity serving toys.

The automatons chapter presents a certain number of automatons manufactured by the greatest French manufacturers:( Vichy, Decamps and so on....) ranging from the mechanical peacock through animal automatons, a drawing clown, walking dolls, to musician automatons.

The chapter dealing with the musical toys presents automaton organists, music boxes with handle, symphonions, musician automatons, talking dolls with wax cylinder, singing birds and so on ...

Reference :
J-03
(French)

AVAILABILITY:
1 copy

Price :
EUR 95.00

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