Tin Toys
These American tin toys were made from the 1920s until the 1950s. Such toy companies as Chein, Marx, Wyandotte and Lionel made stamped tin and metal toys with lithographed (printed) surfaces. Instead of ink, bright paint colors were printed on to the toy. A mold then stamped out a shape. Finally, these shapes, maybe the two sides of the toy or the top and bottom, were put together.
A windup mechanism with a spring and gears was also added to many of these. Later tin toys, like those made in the 1950s and 1960s, also had some plastic parts.
Many of the tin toys were made overseas in countries such as Japan and Germany. The earliest toys were made of wood.
Do you have any toys that came in sets?
