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Noismaker

Manufacturer/Distributor: Unknown.
Country of Origin: unknown.
Age/Date: unknown.
Condition: Very good.
Description: “Noismaker” is a wooden post handle with two balls on wire suspended on either side. To make noise you twist the wooden post and the balls swing from side to side and hit the post making noise.

Peeing Boy Ash Tray

Manufacturer/Distributor: Unknown.
Country of Origin: unknown.
Age/Date: unknown.
Condition: Good – the squeeze bulb to make the boy pee is deteriorated.
Description: “Peeing Boy Ashtray” is an ashtray with a little boy attached to it. There is a tube and a bulb attached to him and when the bulb is squeezed he pees on the cigarette.

Pell Mell Egyption Cigarettes

Manufacturer/Distributor: S. S. Adams, Asbury Park, New Jersey.
Country of Origin: Germany.
Age/Date: unknown.
Condition: Very good.
Description: “Pell Mell Egyptian Cigarettes” is a pack of cigarettes that vibrates.

Pop-Up Cigar Holder (1)

Manufacturer/Distributor: Unknown.
Country of Origin: unknown.
Age/Date: unknown.
Condition: Very good.
Description: “Pop-Up Cigar Holder” is a leatherette cigar case that looks like it has cigars inside, but when you squeeze the case the cigars pop out and the little head and hand pops up.

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Pop-Up Cigar Holder (2)

Manufacturer/Distributor: Unknown.
Country of Origin: unknown.
Age/Date: unknown.
Condition: Good – hand missing.
Description: “Pop-Up Cigar Holder” is a leatherette cigar case that looks like it has cigars inside, but when you squeeze the case the cigars pop out and the little head pops up.

Radios Cigarettes

Manufacturer/Distributor: Unknown.
Country of Origin: Germany.
Age/Date: unknown.
Condition: Good – box is scratched.
Description: “Radios Cigarettes” is a metal cigarette box that, when opened, pops out a string of fake cigarettes.

Rat-A-Tat

Manufacturer/Distributor: Unknown.
Country of Origin: USA.
Age/Date: 1905.
Condition: Very good.
Description: “Rat-A-Tat” is a metal noismaker with a crank. When you crank it it makes a rat-a-tat sound.

Razzer Pipe

Manufacturer/Distributor: Unknown.
Country of Origin: unknown.
Age/Date: unknown.
Condition: Fair – the hand is damaged.
Description: “Razzer Pipe” is a pipe with a rubber hand stuck inside. When you blow on the pipe the hand is supposed to pop out.

Ronson Magic Sparkler (1)

Manufacturer/Distributor: Art Metal Works, Newark, New Jersey.
Country of Origin: USA.
Age/Date: unknown. 1922
Condition: Very good.
Description: “Ronson Magic Sparkler” is a device that produces sparks when you load it with a flint and pull the string to make the ring turn.

Ronson Magic Sparkler (2)

Manufacturer/Distributor: Art Metal Works, Newark, New Jersey.
Country of Origin: USA.
Age/Date: unknown. 1922
Condition: Good – no box.
Description: “Ronson Magic Sparkler” is a device that produces sparks when you load it with a flint and pull the string to make the ring turn.

Scratch Me Pup

Manufacturer/Distributor: H. Fishlove & Co., Chicago, Illinois.
Country of Origin: USA.
Age/Date: 1935.
Condition: Very good.
Description: Item # 809 “Scratch Me Pup” is a match holder.

Simplex Typewriter

Manufacturer/Distributor: Simplex Typewriter Co., 210 Eleventh Avenue, New York, New York.
Country of Origin: unknown.
Age/Date: unknown.
Condition: Good.
Description: “Simplex Typewriter Model 100” is a small toy typewriter.

Smoke Ring Blower (in assortment box)

Manufacturer/Distributor: Unknown.
Country of Origin: Germany.
Age/Date: unknown.
Condition: Excellent – unused.
Description: “Assortment of Joke Articles” is a box of jokes. The box consists of a pack of cigarettes that are all stuck together, a device to make smoke rings, a box of matches that don’t light, a matchbox that produces a mouse, and a pair of scissors that don’t open.

Smoking Donkey Cigarette Dispenser

Manufacturer/Distributor: DEEBEECO.
Country of Origin: Hong Kong.
Age/Date: unknown.
Condition: Very good – box shows some wear.
Description: Item # 926-45 “Smoking Donkey Cigarette Dispenser” is a cigarette holder that, when you pull the ears, dispenses a cigarette out of it’s butt.

Swiftset Rotary Printing Press

Manufacturer/Distributor: T. S. T. Company.
Country of Origin: USA.
Age/Date: .
Condition: Fair – unknown if it works.
Description: “Swiftset Printing Press” is a small, hand-crank printing press.

Texas Steer

Manufacturer/Distributor: H. Fishlove & Co., Chicago, Illinois.
Country of Origin: USA.
Age/Date: 1936.
Condition: Very good.
Description: Item # 822 “Texas Steer” is a wooden match holder in the shape of a steer.

The Boys’ Own Toy Maker – 1928

Number of Pages: 66.
Date: 1928.
Publisher/Distributor: Johnson Smith & Company, Racine, Wisconsin.
Condition: Very good – some foxing on front cover.
Notes: none.

The Lion’s Head Matches

Manufacturer/Distributor: Unknown.
Country of Origin: Germany.
Age/Date: unknown.
Condition: Fair – box has damage, key is missing.
Description: “The Lion’s Head Safety Matches” is a vibrating matchbox.

The Smallest Cigar Lighter

Manufacturer/Distributor: H. Fishlove & Co., Chicago, Illinois.
Country of Origin: USA.
Age/Date: unknown.
Condition: Very good.
Description: Item #49 “The Smallest Cigar Lighter” is a matchbox with a match inside.

The Star Toy Maker – 1907 (1)

Number of Pages: 64.
Date: 1907.
Publisher/Distributor: W. D. Boyce Company, 76 Dearborn Avenue, Chicago, Illinois.
Condition: Good – normal wear.
Notes: Sold by Johnson Smith & Company.

The Star Toy Maker – 1946 (2)

Number of Pages: 64.
Date: 1946.
Publisher/Distributor: Johnson Smith & Company, 6615 E. Jefferson Avenue, Detroit, Michigan.
Condition: Excellent.
Notes: Booklet #1312.

The Wonderful Gyroscope

Manufacturer/Distributor: Unknown.
Country of Origin: USA.
Age/Date: unknown.
Condition: Very good.
Description: “The Wonderful Gyroscope” is a gyroscope with a sheet showing all the ways you can use it.

Top Secret

Manufacturer/Distributor: Andrews Manufacturing Company, Inc., Eugene, Oregon 97403.
Country of Origin: USA.
Age/Date: unknown.
Condition: Very good.
Description: “Top Secret” is a perpetual top. The top spins indefinitely on the platform with the help of a magnet.

Toy Top

Manufacturer/Distributor: Unknown.
Country of Origin: Canada.
Age/Date: unknown.
Condition: Very good.
Description: “Toy Top” is a metal top with a metal cage at the top that you hold on to to wind the top and to hold on to when you pull the cord to get the top spinning.

Trix

Manufacturer/Distributor: Unknown.
Country of Origin: unknown.
Age/Date: unknown.
Condition: Very good.
Description: “Trix” is a dog standing on a pedestal. When you press the large button on the bottom, the dog moves/bends in the direction you are pressing.

U.S. Baby Tank

Manufacturer/Distributor: Animate Toy.
Country of Origin: USA.
Age/Date: 1918.
Condition: Good – does not wind up.
Description: “U. S. Baby Tank” is a tin litho small tank that will run on its own if you wind it up. To wind it you put the tank on a flat surface and pull back on it, allowing the wheel on the bottom to wind up the tank. When you release the tank it rolls forward. This tank does not work because the wheel is frozen.

Uncle Sam’s Register Bank

Manufacturer/Distributor: Durable Toy & Novelty Company, Inc., Div. of Western Stamping, P.O. Box 211, Jackson, Michigan.
Country of Origin: USA.
Age/Date: unknown.
Condition: Very good.
Description: “Uncle Sam’s Register Bank” is a cash register type bank that registers your coins as they are deposited. The bank will not open until it registers $10 at which point you must press the bottom drawer (the one that says “Uncle Sam’s” and you can get your money.

Volcan Radaholm Matches (1)

Manufacturer/Distributor: Jönköpings & Volcans T.F.A.B, Sweden.
Country of Origin: Sweden.
Age/Date: unknown.
Condition: Very good.
Description: “Volcan Radaholm Superior Safety Matches” is a fake matchbox that goes bang when opened.

Volcan Radaholm Matches (2)

Manufacturer/Distributor: Jönköpings & Volcans T.F.A.B, Sweden.
Country of Origin: USA.
Age/Date: unknown.
Condition: Fair – The cover is damaged, windup mechanism works.
Description: “Volcan Radaholm Superior Safety Matches” is a fake matchbox that is wound up and vibrates when picket up.

Waterettes

Manufacturer/Distributor: Hirsch Laboratories, 226 Jackson Street, Toledo, Ohio.
Country of Origin: USA.
Age/Date: 1948.
Condition: Good – some parts missing.
Description: “Waterettes” is a kit that allows little cellophane figures to “dance” on water.

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