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...
by Rehg | Mar 9, 2025 | art of toys blog, 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,...
by Rehg | Mar 9, 2025 | Blog
Mattel Liddle Kiddles Childhood Toys Take on Value Mattel Liddle Kiddles Childhood Toys Take on Value -wow who would have thought that a favorite little play doll could have jumped in value so much …surprise … some of our most cherished toys have little to...
by Rehg | Mar 7, 2025 | art of toys blog, Blog
A photo of a hypothetical plus-sized Barbie doll has ignited a heated debate over body image, anorexia and obesity. What do you think? Is this a positive image for large girls or does it promote obesity? Is 3 chins too many? Poor Barbie has been the subject of many...
by Rehg | Mar 6, 2025 | art of toys blog, Blog
Lisa Owens of MidDreamers: A Look into the Mystery of Fairies Through Her Art is a soft title for this young California artist that has created over 600 polymer creations from the fairy world. Art Of Toys is so proud to feature Lisa as part of the annual Fairy and...
by Rehg | Mar 6, 2025 | art of toys blog, Blog
Car artist Jeffery Beckerleg from the foothills of the Sierras to Art Of Toys as a featured artist in our annual “Cars” show. The artist, Jeffery Beckerleg, resides in Georgetown, California where he works out of his studios. His art covers a broad range...
by Rehg | Feb 26, 2025 | art of toys blog, Blog
I love the old Fisher Price toys and have had 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. The Fisher Price Toy...
by Rehg | Feb 25, 2025 | art of toys blog, Blog
Daunine Vining maintains her studio in the woods next to a flowing creek in the beautiful Sierra Nevada Mountains. This is where she likes to design her marionettes and full body puppets. She has worked as an interior designer in Los Angeles, Mexico, New York and...
by Rehg | Feb 25, 2025 | Blog
Hansa’s Portraits in Nature is a handcrafted collection of realistic plush animals. Artists working in a socially and environmentally responsible studio create each Hansa animal from portraits of the creature in its natural habitat. The “coat” of each character is...
by Rehg | Feb 24, 2025 | art of toys blog, Blog
I LOVE the simple lines of the graphic images of artist Keith Haring so much that I imported toys from France with his images! I was amazed to discover how few people know this talented young artist, Keith Haring Artist of the 80’s Keith Allen Haring was an...
by Rehg | Feb 24, 2025 | art of toys blog, Blog
I came across a reference book in my library,”Cartoon Collectibles” that had a fun description of life in the 30’s that I thought I would share today! Informative for younger generations and nostalgic for you of that era….mind how the whole family evolves around...
by Rehg | Feb 23, 2025 | art of toys blog, Blog
In 1939 a new toy, Self-Locking Building Bricks were patented by plastic pioneer, Harley Fisher Page, founder of Kiddicraft Company. By 1945 he had improved the blocks by adding channels which inspired Godtfred Kirk Christiansen, the man who gave the world the LEGO...
by Rehg | Feb 23, 2025 | art of toys blog, Blog
Midgetoy -Brief Company History It was 1943 when Alvin and Earl Herdklotz formed the A & E Tool and Gage Co. Their first products included precision tooling such as gauges that measured the contours and shapes of airplane propellers. With the end of World War...
by Rehg | Feb 23, 2025 | art of toys blog, Blog
A.C. Gilbert, a toy manufacturer and Olympic gold medalist in the pole vault, unveiled his first Erector set in 1913, one-upping the contemporary Meccano building toy by allowing kids to build square girders. With a pulley, gears and strips of metal, kids could build...
by Rehg | Feb 22, 2025 | Blog
The earliest marbles weren’t called marbles, of course, because marble wasn’t the source material just yet. The earliest marbles were actually round stones, nuts, fruit pits or fired pieces of clay and pottery. Some say they were found in the Egyptian pyramids and in...
by Rehg | Feb 22, 2025 | Blog
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 detailed sites…I will warn you now if you try to just...
by Rehg | Feb 22, 2025 | Blog
G.I. Joe In this crazy time in the US I thought I would touch on a American icon toy of the 1960’s, G.I. Joe produced by Hasbro and first hit the market in the summer of 1964. It was sold as a toy designed to take rough play of boys not a collectible… today it is a...
by Rehg | Feb 21, 2025 | Blog
Assemblage is an artistic process. In the visual arts it consists of making three-dimensional or two-dimensional artistic compositions by putting together found objects …Wiki Go Forward, Johann Dieter Wassman 1897 So in the world of Art Of Toys this means taking toys...
by Rehg | Feb 20, 2025 | Blog
To continue with methods to clean toys I have spent a great deal of time cleaning old bisque and porcelain dolls. I always thought the claim “smoke free house” was kinda goofy until I bought a large lot of vintage Penny Dolls on ebay only to find they had...
by Rehg | Jan 30, 2025 | Blog
What is the difference between a collector and a hoarder? Organization! I love to see how people organize and display their collections! In this day of internet I found these three interviews on youtube with three very different collections but all three have a lot of...
by Rehg | Apr 9, 2024 | art of toys blog, Blog
The Zanini & Zambelli Doll Company is a family owned and operated business. It is located in Canneto Sull ‘Oglio in the province of Mantova, Italy. The original owners were Adelaide Zanini and Francesco Zambelli, husband and wife, who founded the company in 1948....
by Rehg | Feb 26, 2021 | Blog
I had the pleasure of representing Sasha Dolls in the early 80’s when International Playthings was the distributor. From that I developed a love for the beautiful simple design of these timeless dolls designed by Sasha Morgenthaler and am happy to share both my...
by Rehg | Oct 7, 2020 | Blog
TV Memorabilia One of the more useful of my collections is Toy Reference books which I peruse of a regular basis looking for ideas to blog so today I came across “Collectible Television Memorabilia” by Dian Zillner. Now the first thing I have to check is what year...
by Rehg | Jul 8, 2020 | Blog
Toy Art featured at Art Of Toys for our second Designer Toy Show featuring original art from local talented artists that have customized Munny’s from kidrobot. Artists include, Gwen Akcin, Oscar Ayotzintli, Selina Briggs, Chris Cinder, Sheri DeBow, Angelo...
by Rehg | Mar 27, 2020 | Blog
Artist Rebecca Casey Rebecca Casey was one of the first featured artist at Art Of Toys with her series of assemblage ceramic and toy art creations. Art Of Toys was both happy and sad as we sold out all her creations for they had become mascots to the gallery. A native...
by Rehg | Mar 18, 2020 | Blog
Deb Canham Art Of Toys Featured Artist 2012 Deb Canham Art Of Toys Featured Artist 2012 with her wonderful miniature dragons and monsters thou Deb Canham has been a leading figure in the bear world since 1987 when she became the UK’s first miniature bear artist....
by Rehg | Jul 17, 2019 | Blog
At Art Of Toys we have been fortunate to have this talented artist share her work several times in the years past. (I myself own more than one fab painting) Laurelin is known for her beautiful oil paintings that combine the world of today with a fantasy twist so the...
by Rehg | Jul 16, 2019 | Blog
This month we are excited to experience the creative juices of some of Sacramento’s most up and coming artists though their creations using kidrobot’s Munny forms. – First released in 2012, the MUNNY is a blank vinyl figure designed to inspire...
by Rehg | May 15, 2019 | Blog
Artist Chris Cinder Interview Check out the interview! Please subscribe to our YouTube channel!
by Rehg | May 7, 2019 | Blog
Exhibit Title: “ROBOTS” Artists: Chris Cinder, Robert Gordon ,Joel Stinghen and Garry Gay Exhibit Dates: May 1 thru June 9th Robots one of the most popular shows at Art Of Toys is back featuring Chris Cinder, Robert Gordon and newcomer Joel Stinghen! The whole family...
by Rehg | Apr 26, 2019 | Blog
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by Rehg | Apr 18, 2019 | Blog
Unboxing Amber Glassman of Magic Vessel at Art Of Toys! Artist Statement Hi there, I’m Amber, I have enjoyed creating art all my life. Studying the biological sciences and learning about all the different lifeforms living alongside us is what inspired me to begin...
by Rehg | Mar 2, 2019 | Blog
Art Of Toys is excited to have our first Designer Toy Show featuring original art from Kidrobot artist Candie Bolton and Steve Ferrera, Yosiell Lorenzo, Lyla Warrens and local talent Julie Okahara, Chris Cinder and Robert Rodriguez. To add the excitement we are...
by Rehg | Nov 5, 2018 | Blog
Jewels in the Month of November at Art Of Toys! Art Of Toys is happy to have such talented jewelry artists showing in the month of November in time for holiday gifts! Art Of Toys will feature local artist Lorrain Garcia, emiko oye’s of San Francisco Lego jewelry,...
by Rehg | Oct 2, 2018 | Blog
Doll Artists October Show at Art Of Toys Art Of Toys is happy to introduce some of the best international doll artists to Sacramento including Marilyn Radzat, Stephanie Blythe, Christine Benjamin and Sheri DeBow, Lindsay Cristelli and Stephanie Novatski as well as...
by Rehg | Sep 7, 2018 | Blog
The art of Puppets is one of the oldest forms of theater dating back to the 5th Century BC. As an art form, theater and then toy is has a strong heritage. The month of September at Art Of Toys will be “Puppets” with Dan Crowley of Chicago as the feature...
