This Time of the year it’s an Auction for Antique Vehicle Collectors.
Be it from BUDDY L, KENTON,HUBLEY, TIPP & CO,Tootsie Toy,Matchbox and more.. These hard to find items makes a perfect find to add to one collection. PREBID THE AUCTION https://www.liveauctioneers.com/catalog/227705_trains-toys-collectibles/Tipp & COTipp & Co Founded in 1912 and named after an early director/employee (?), Miss Tipp, its ultimate owner, Phillip Ullman, was forced to flee Germany in 1933. He went to England, where he founded Mettoy, eventually returning to Germany to recover his company after the war. Tipp’s military vehicles are among the finest clockwork tin toys produced in the pre-War era as well as one of the better companies that produced tin windup toys of high quality such as Lineol and Elastolin. The following pictures are just some of the large collection of pre-War era Tippco toys. Most of the Tippco Hitler-era toys were destroyed after the war. There are very few toys that exist today that are museum quality and we have all but a few.BUDDY LOne of the most successful lines of toy vehicles ever is Buddy L, introduced by Fred Lundahl and named for his son. In 1910, Fred A. Lundahl started the Moline Press Steel Company in East Moline, Il. He provided quality pressed steel parts such as automobile fenders, truck and farm-implement parts, to McCormick-Deering, International Harvester, and 36 automobile manufacturers as well as the truck and farm machinery industry. During the summer of 1920, Fred began to make toy model steel vehicles for his 5-year old son Arthur Brown Lundahl using 18 and 20 gauge scrap metal from his parts manufacturing business. Fred believed that the quality of most manufactured toys and trucks from the period was poor, and they were generally not built to last. He wanted his son to have indestructible playthings to resemble the newest adult toy, the automobile, and