by Rehg | Mar 24, 2025 | art of toys blog, Blog
Uneeda Doll Company was founded in 1917 in Brooklyn, New York and continued to produce dolls until it’s demise in 1991. Uneeda was also known as the Tony Toy Company of Hong Kong, as some dolls are marked. Uneeda Doll created many types of dolls ini the...
by Rehg | Mar 15, 2025 | Blog
Look at eBay and see if you can find the toy or any general information. DO NOT TAKE INFORMATION AS THE RULE! I find about 85% of listing info is incorrect or evasive on eBay but it is a good start. Look for multiple listing of same item for clues. Go old school and...
by Rehg | Mar 13, 2025 | Blog
Art Of Toys usually has quite a few Vintage toys from Marx Company so here is a great history from good ol Wikipedia on Marx. AOT includes this info with Marx toys Louis Marx and Company Louis Marx and Company was an American toy manufacturer from 1919 to 1978. Its...
by Rehg | Mar 11, 2025 | Blog
Artist Statement Some junk is too cool to throw away and becomes fodder for a “found object assemblage sculpture”(which sounds better than a “pile of junk”). Old or broken toys, the fan from a discarded microwave,the toner cartridge from a laser printer. Whether it is...
by Rehg | Mar 10, 2025 | Blog
Americana Toys What is Americana Toys? The gallery had a Americana show and most of the artists that applied sent in folk toys! According to one of my favorite go to references- Wikipedia: Americana refers to artifacts, or a collection of artifacts, related to the...
by Rehg | Mar 10, 2025 | Blog
Artist Doll Market of the 90’s- Where did it go? I have collected dolls since I was five so when I went to my first West Coast Toy Show in Pasadena , California I was obsessed with the blossoming new market of doll artists. I was a sub-rep to a handful of...
by Rehg | Mar 10, 2025 | Blog
Christine Benjamin Felter Extraordinaire is one of the fabulous artists participating at Art Of Toys October Doll Artist Show! Felting is a process of sculpting with wool by compressing the wool with many strokes of a barbed needle…it takes hours to create...
by Rehg | Mar 10, 2025 | Blog
Fantastic Art Of Char Hall has been part of Art Of Toys as part of Monster Show. Char creates her fantastic creatures PENCIL drawings by combining two animals for her own monster thou sometimes are too sweet to be a monster as in Pandabee. Char is a full time tattoo...
by Rehg | Mar 10, 2025 | Blog
Jacob Jerde Art Of Toys artist Jacob Jerde is one of the featured artists who creates fantasy assemblage car art. Jacob Jerde is a local artist that began his journey into the world of art when he was a young boy. Jake learned to put model kits together at a very...
by Rehg | Mar 9, 2025 | art of toys blog, Blog
Yolanda Bello, whose dolls are critically acclaimed for their realism, their sculptural excellence, and their rich depth of emotion, says that her goal is to design dolls that “achieve purity of expression”. Yolanda Bello’s work as a doll maker is known to...
