I saw an auction toy car listed as Minister. I thought it was the boxed black rolls at the top but it's actually the boxed red tinplate...

Hi Woodsy Following Ed's pictures of his Hess lithoe'd tin battleship, here's the sail version. Enjoy. Will O.

Paint tins were essential kit back in the Sixties. No self-respecting boomer would be caught without a tin tray of watercolours. And so it w...

Woodsy, There are more boats out in The Cave than you can shake a stick at and not all of them have been photographed yet - especially the l...

I've said before that the Sears Bandai line are some of the most beautiful tin toys ever. I mean look at the cruising lines of these Tur...

Well Woodsy. I met with a bit of frustration trying to locate that lever-action F-104 I recently commented about. I have one in green (as s...

I picked these up last month, a bundle of old metal planes and copters. The green jet is Japanese tinplate, the rest are cast metal. The sma...

Not sure what to make of this Super Car. I think I like it. The box art reminds me of a neat Seventies LP record cover! The name Guardians o...

Re. your blog post on the subject, I sent you these photos of my orange Sears Super Sonic Jetliner back in 2022.  It came up here in Finland...

Woodsy, I'm pleased to finally present this toy.  The T.N. (Japan) Apollo-X Moon Challenger. I bought the rocket years ago all by itself...

Hi Woodsy, re big cars, here's a rip-off Bond car that looks more like the Man from Uncle car. At 14 inches long and battery-operated, i...

Woodsy, Here's my Marx tin-litho Jalopy from ca.1927.  Apparently, cars like this were not unusual back then and Marx made several varia...