by Rehg | Aug 27, 2014 | Blog
Kickstarter City Mystic This month in the gallery we are helping to promote some young artists, Virginia Jester and Chris Hopkins Kickstarter City Mystic project and are in the final race to make it. Have you ever wanted to be involved in helping new talent but were...
by Rehg | Aug 26, 2014 | Blog
What Popular Children’s Toy Was Originally Created To Solve Structural Problems? Lego Erector Set Rubik’s Cube Playdoh Answer: The Rubik’s Cube One of the world’s most iconic and best selling toys didn’t begin life as a toy at all. What we now know as the...
by Rehg | Aug 25, 2014 | Blog
The month of September is featuring “Puppets” so I thought I would do a bit of research on one of the oldest puppet shows know – Punch and Judy. I went online and was amazed at how many sites are devoted to “Punch and Judy” so if you want it there is an a lot of...
by Rehg | Aug 22, 2014 | Blog
Fisher Price I love the old Fisher Price toys and have customers come into the gallery and reminisce when they see them in the vintage section on their own toys. Most styles are easy to track their era by the printed paper lithos that make up the outside. ...
by Rehg | Aug 21, 2014 | Blog
Discovering Louis Slobodkin Last night a gentleman came by on his bicycle ran into the gallery and handed me an old children s book as a gift. I had never met the man and was surprised but he said he heard I liked toys and thought I might enjoy the book. Wow it...
by Rehg | Aug 20, 2014 | Blog
Collectors Decorating 2 Yesterday I re-addressed the discussion of decorating with your collections and today I will expand on this limitless topic of collectors decorating! One of the easiest decorating tricks is too incorporate your collection into another. A...
by Rehg | Aug 19, 2014 | Blog
Collector’s Decorating 1 I love to see how different collectors include their collections in their home, especially when the collection becomes a feature component or is the decoration. Nothing is worse when I hear the collection is stored in a box under the bed...
by Rehg | Aug 18, 2014 | Blog
Tin toys are very desirable as collectables currently thou most do not meet safety standards for toys so are no longer labeled “toys” but “collectables” and this is usually accompanied by 14 years and up. Prior to the mid-seventies tin toy...
by Rehg | Aug 15, 2014 | Blog
Drug Dealer Barbie I just read the funniest Barbie story on the internet in awhile “Drug Dealer Barbie”… poor Barbie cannot get a break. I was going to put the link to the Daily Mail but my computer alerted me to virus ad ware so I will cut and paste...
by Rehg | Aug 14, 2014 | Blog
Cartoons Starring Donald Duck 1934-1961 Cartoons starring Donald Duck 1934-1961 is a list of Donald Duck Disney’s Comedian first appearance on screen from in 1934, in The Wise Little Hen, and he also made a striking, squawking appearance as a loud, quacking,...
