This
is the category that I have the most fun with. These are the orphans of
the toyworld. Wooden, hand made trucks evoking a more simpler age of mass
production. Unique packaging such as the tinplate French cookie box, complete
with lithographed passengers. The brass and copper firetruck that plays,
Cole Porter's , "Smoke gets in Your Eyes".
While
the ladder raises and drops, The Coca Cola racer made of empty cans. The
Third World wooden trucks, the Disney characters with the early Muppets.
Motorcycles and hubcaps...anything and everything based on the automobile
industry. Soon a separate page of car painting situations done in my own
pseudo-naïve style will follow. Nothing in life is perfect, and we
just plod along for the ride. Collecting gives us that challenge; to find
that special toy, and then, on to the next ! |
