When you think of collectible toy banks from Buddy L, you think trucks. That is mainly because the truck toy banks were the most popular. In fact, Buddy L was so popular that they first started off as the Moline Pressed Steel Company in 1910 and in the 1920’s began manufacturing toy trucks and cars with the trade name as the Buddy “L” and are still in operation today.

Interests in Steelcraft collectible pedal cars have become increasingly popular in the last decade or so for avid car collectors. The main reason behind this theory, according to many well known car collectors, is the simple fact that pedal cars have little to no maintenance making them much easier to deal with and give them more time to search and add to their collections.

The first fisher price collectible toys from the 1940’s consisted of many different styles, all which were made of wood, and the most popular style during this time period was the Fisher Price pull toys. The feeling that young children would get was great joy and excitement as they would take their favorite pull toys on trips around the neighborhood whether it is to the grocery store, or just outside playing with friends and family nearby in their town.

The European’s in the 1880s started the vast craze of windup or spring-driven tinplate toys. The American firms, realizing the huge success of this expanding market, in the 20th century began to produce large amounts of these spring driven tinplates and windup toys.

The Kilgore company manufactured many great toys throughout their business venture but the Kilgore collectible cap guns were amongst the favorites with young boys and some girls in the 1950’s and 1960’s. Some of these cap guns looked so realistic that many people could not tell the difference in the real guns and fake guns.

The Wilkins 1890 cast iron train set opened a lot of doors to the production of many cast iron toys for the next years. James Wilkins was the founder and had a true knack for building cast iron toys. These toys were very detailed (for the time) and very popular among most children and adults in 1890 and for the next few years.

George S. Parker founded the original Parker Brothers company way back in 1800’s but it wasn’t named Parker Brothers at the time. His brother, Charles, joined their business in 1888 and the Parker Brothers name was officially formed in 1893. This duo brought on many of the great Parker Brother games from the 1800’s that many people do not recognize, but may recognize different games that was created with the idea of the originals in mind.

Louis Marx and company was a well known American Toy manufacturer from the years 1919-1978. Marx’s toys consisted of toy soldier’s, toy guns, action figures, dolls, toy cars and toy trains. The logo of the company had the letters “MAR” in a circle with an X through it, which resembled a railroad crossing sign.

Lehmann 1890’s – 1930’s collectible windup toys were very popular for the time. The Lehmann Company was very versatile in the types of windup toys that they manufactured from horse drawn carriages, cars, trucks, to even small turtles. These windup toys would come is some sort of wheel system (each model was different, i.e. a turtle wouldn’t have wheels so they would be hidden) that would move along a hard surface once the toy was wound up.

Dinky Die Cast collectible toys burst onto the toy scene in the 1930’s, being produced by a man named Frank Hornby, who was part of the world famous Meccano Toy Company. These Dinky toys were originally created and intended to be used as accessories for the Hornby Trains, which were very popular at the time, but with the instant success of the Dinky die cast collectible toys, the company was all but forced to expand and add more products to their line such as trucks, buses, mini airplanes, and they even manufactured doll houses and furniture for a very brief time.