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 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 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 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 | 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....
