Showing posts with label machines. Show all posts
Showing posts with label machines. Show all posts

Wednesday, August 29, 2012

Huge Toy Tractor Auction | JJ's Auction Service

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MINNEAPOLIS MOLINE 125TH ANIVERSARY EDITION TRACTOR
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ERTL DUETZ ALLIS 9150 TRACTOR---#3408

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ERTL 620 JOHN DEERE ORCHARD TRACTOR--#0932
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ERTL CASE "L" TRACTOR


Thursday, November 17, 2011

Sinclair Dinoland Waxy-Plastic Dinosaurs - Pavilions & Attractions | nywf64.com

Pavilions & Attractions - Sinclair Dinoland - Page Seven:
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Yet another toy that Mother's everywhere threw away by the bucket-full.

Sinclair Dinoland Waxy-Plastic Dinosaurs were distributed all over the country in the 1960s and 70s to promote Sinclair gas stations which used a brontosaurus as their mascot (or if you are a purist - the Apatosaurus). These toys were produced in front of your eyes with portable injection-molding machines that traveled the country to parking lots and proto-shopping malls of the day. The slippery or "waxy-plastic" is likely the result of using a soft plastic with a low-melting point to safely produce the figures with the "Mold-a-Rama" portable machine in any condition. (Oh yes, the days when -rama was used as a suffix, like the ever popular -a go-go as in "Whiskey A Go-Go").

Stegosaurus Mold-a-Rama Dinosaur Brontosaurus Mold-a-Rama Dino


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Friday, October 28, 2011

Very rare "verbal" fortune-teller machin | Memories of the Old West that collectors want to own - World - NZ Herald News

rMemories of the Old West that collectors want to own - World - NZ Herald News:
"Truth was, until a few years ago, nobody, not even her owner, knew the non-functioning machine gathering dust in Bob's Place was an undiscovered treasure sitting in plain sight in this ghost town-turned-themed tourist attraction.

The 100-year-old fortune teller was an extremely rare find. Instead of dispensing a card like Zoltar, the Gypsy would actually speak your fortune from a hidden record player. When you dropped a nickel in the slot, her eyes would flash, her teeth would chatter and her voice would come floating from a tube extending out of the 2.5m-tall box."

Friday, October 14, 2011

Puppeteers, CG meet to create 'Real Steel' robots | Crave - CNET

Puppeteers, CG meet to create 'Real Steel' robots | Crave - CNET:


"... director Shawn Levy decided to build huge, gadget-rich "puppet" versions of the boxing robots from the new Hugh Jackman action movie "Real Steel." ... working "real life" versions of the creatures via animatronics to interact with Jackson and the other actors on-set.

Legacy Effects built 24 robot puppets in total, including versions of the main "stars" Atom, Noisy Boy, and Ambush. According to Legacy's statistics, each puppet contained more than 350 individual machine parts, making for a final creation that weighed more than 250 pounds. Each limb joint could be adjusted to let operators take control of the bots with puppet articulation rods.

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Real Steel Figure Wave 1 Atom V1
Atom V1 - Real Steel Figure, Wave 1


Atom's signature move: the Double-uppercut

Full-articulating collectable action figures with great details and coloring 

Monday, July 11, 2011

Toy car museum in Ft. Worth Texas (video) DFW Elite Toy Museum

Lone Star Adventure: Toy Museum:

"the DFW Elite Toy Museum unique, most notably its vast collection of toy cars. The museum is home to both the largest and smallest gas-powered remote control cars in the world."

visiting the museum is absolutely free. For more information please visit DFW Elite Toy Museum's website .
Our toy museum is conveniently located just five minutes outside of downtown Fort Worth, Texas, in Haltom City.


Read more on : http://www.myfoxdfw.com/dpp/news/fox_4_features/071011-lone-star-adventure:-toy-museum#ixzz1Ro9b3RQm


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Monday, June 13, 2011

Our Peoples Collections’ Village museum to be opened in Cornwall + Meet Wayne Elderbroom - Seaway News

portable Kenmore wringer washer made in February 1958
"“Our Peoples Collections’ Village”, a museum to be built by Rudy Tabak and Marie Morrell. Wayne left the washer for the Museum the same day he was interviewed. Elderbroom has not been able to get much information, on Internet, except that it is a portable washing machine that could also be used as a salesman’s sample.

Wayne’s true passion revolves around collecting die-cast cars and motorcycles. One item he is really keen about is a pewter (lead) motor cycle given to him by Rudy Tabak. Another prize possession is his riding 1930 Simplicity garden tractor. Wayne loves garage sales and picks up unusual items of historical meaning. If money was no object, he would love to own an old 1958 truck that he would rebuild."


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Monday, June 6, 2011

World time lighthouse clock | LOT #947 - bertoiaauctions.com

LOT #947 - WORLD TIME LIGHTHOUSE CLOCK:
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[Made in] Germany, very rare example, a unique design, features world time clocks as windmill blades, ..., sculpted wave base painted in blue, an all original piece. 21 1/2' h[eight]." From the Bertoia Auction house sale ending June 11, 2011.
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Wednesday, June 1, 2011

Jutebox & Regina disc players + more @ auction June 18 + June 24-25 in North Carolina | PRLog

The living estate of Mr. Brady C. Jefcoat will be sold June 18 and June 24-25 in North Carolina | PRLog:
1941 Wurlitzer Model 750 jukebox
"Mr. Jefcoat, 95, began his collection in earnest in 1972 ... His main passion is music machines, to include rare and vintage phonographs (many with horns), Regina disc players and players by other makers, jukeboxes, Victrolas, cylinder boxes, organs, band boxes, coin-operated items, Black Forest cuckoo clocks, hanging oil lamps and many other items in a variety of collecting genres."

Hundreds of rare and prized items from the living estate of Brady C. Jefcoat – a collector so dedicated and renowned a museum bearing his name exists in Murfreesboro, N.C. – will be sold on Saturday, June 18, in the showroom of Winstead’s Auction Company, then again June 24-25 in an on-site auction at the Jefcoat residence in Raleigh, N.C.

Edison Bell Electrotone German Excelsior reproducer/talking machine with cupids on all sides and a huge horn; a rare Class M battery-operated phonograph; and an Edison Triumph #66907 with Cygnet horn and original gold paint. Other phonographs will include an oak case Edison Model M spring-model reproducer with 5-inch Mandrel, oak Cygnet horn and Music Master label (plus tag from Theo F. Bentel & Co.); an Edison Model A Oxidized Bronze reproducer (serial #4484), type SM, with 21-inch mahogany Cygnet horn; and an Edison Model B reproducer with two- and four-minute gearing.

This sale will include an upright coin-op 27-inch Regina Corona disc player with the original finish, automatic changer, double comb box and 12 discs; a coin-op oak Regina 27-inch disc player with fancy carvings, 12 automatic changer; an oak coin-op bow-front Regina 12-disc changer; and a rare coin-op oak upright Regina Hexaphone with six interchangeable cylinders.

[A] German-made grandfather clock with a built-in Schultz-Marke 12-inch disc player. The other is an oak hall tree with weight-driven clock, beveled mirrors, swinging pendulum and beveled glass. Also sold will be an RCA Victor “Nipper” the mascot dog (3 feet tall) with a speaker in his belly. ... a totally restored Wurlitzer Model 750 jukebox; a 24-selection 1948 Wurlitzer Model 1100 jukebox; a coin-op Ristaucrat Model 45-S table jukebox that plays 45 rpm records, and a circa 1950s Seeburg Model 200 Wall-o-Matic table jukebox.




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Monday, May 23, 2011

A cornucopia of corkscrews - Times-Standard Online

A cornucopia of corkscrews - Times-Standard Online:
"the Clarke Historical Museum in Eureka. Roy Sheppard's private collection of corkscrews comprises more than 300 of the objects and almost every one is different.
Sheppard, of McKinleyville, has been collecting corkscrews for about 47 years, “as long as I've been married,” he said. Most of them were obtained locally, with some found during his travels to nearby areas. The oldest corkscrew in his collection is made of brass and dates to 1840."

Tuesday, May 10, 2011

Collecting technology: 1st time exhibit of Bill Buxton's tech collection -- Engadget

achMicrosoft's Bill Buxton exhibits gadget collection 35 years in the making -- Engadget:
"... exhibiting in public for the first time at a conference in Vancouver, British Columbia this week. Not able to check it out in person? Then you can thankfully settle for the next best thing, as Microsoft Research has also put the entire collection online, complete with Buxton's own notes for each of the items (which range from Etch-a-Sketches to watches to a range of different input devices"

Buxton has accumulated hundreds of items that struck him as interesting, unusual or important to the evolution of interactive devices – watches, keyboards, mice, an electronic drum set, a 60-year-old transistor radio whose design inspired the iPod, a Nintendo Power Glove, several Etch-A-Sketches, and even the first so-called "smart" phone – controlled by a touch-screen - first shown in 1993, 14 years before smart phones exploded onto the scene.

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Thursday, May 5, 2011

Oldest known Nikon Auction | Ubergizmo

Oldest known Nikon goes under the hammer | Ubergizmo:
"May 28th [...] is where the WestLicht Photographica Auction will feature the Nikon I (No. 60924) that you see above, all the way from 1948. It seems that the auction will start from 140,000 to 160,000 Euros (that’s $228,800 in our currency), and being the third camera ever made by Nikon, it obviously holds a whole lot of history for camera buffs."


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Collecting televisions: Oldest TV Auction Est. £5000 | Engadget

Britain's oldest working television goes up for auction -- Engadget:
"The Marconiphone 702 television pictured above, which is believed to be the oldest working television in Britain, and possibly the world. It was tracked down by a collector a few years ago, and is now set to go up for auction on April 19th at Bonhams in London, where it has an estimated sale price of £5,000 but is expected to sell for 'much more.'"


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