Thursday, August 18, 2011

Collecting Antique Tin Toys + Tin Toy Prices | collectibles.about.com

Yesterday's Toys, Collecting Antique Tin Toys - Tin Toy Prices:

Yesterday's Toys -- Tin's In
A WOW toy that falls down and gets up
Barb Crews

WOW toys?  Ok what does WOW mean in the context of collectible toys? WOW toy designers make educational toys in Hammersmith, London. Then there's Words of Wonder and World of Warcraft.  Don't think that's what the article is about. But as my mind likes to figure out acronyms, so maybe: Wind up Once Wobble Toys, or something like that. What's it mean? Drop a line if you know.

Interview with the tinman - Toys and Dolls Show, Kansas City
About twice a year, there is a local Toy & Dolls Show and Sale that I never miss. One of the highlights of the show is hanging around with the tinman from Kansas, Ken Holmes of Yesterday's Toys. His colorful booth is always a delight with dozens of antique tin toys that do all sorts of fun things.
"I started collecting and buying toys around 1989-1990 and did my first show in 1991. Now I sell at about 9 shows a year and, since I have a full time job, limit myself to shows that are within driving distance."


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Wednesday, August 17, 2011

Preview Chicago’s Seventh Annual Printers’ Ball: Flavorwire

Flavorwire : Preview Chicago’s Seventh Annual Printers’ Ball:
"This year’s official poster, designed by Johnny Sampson, takes the It’s Alive! theme into horror-flick territory, featuring the likes of Frankenstein, the Mummy, and Chicago’s own beloved Svengoolie having a read. The first 150 people to pre-register receive a limited-edition poster — just one more piece of great swag at an event brimming with it. (See Sampson’s gig-poster work here — some of the best in a city that’s never been a slouch in that department.)"

World War II Soviet Tass Posters at Chicago Art Institute - NYTimes.com

World War II Soviet Tass Posters at Chicago Art Institute - NYTimes.com:
"Jill Bugajski, an art historian and one of the curators of a show that opens on Sunday at the Art Institute of Chicago, “Windows on the War: Soviet TASS Posters at Home and Abroad, 1941-1945.” The exhibition of about 150 pieces, with a catalog from Yale University Press, is the first major scholarly study of the topic in English. A trove of Tass posters was discovered at the Art Institute in 1997, rolled up in a closet. They had scarcely been looked at since they arrived from the Soviet Union in the 1940s."


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Documentary About Gig Posters » Preview ‘Just Like Being There,’ | Flavorwire

Flavorwire » Preview ‘Just Like Being There,’ A Documentary About Gig Posters:
"new documentary about the art of the gig poster. Just Like Being There, ... documenting artists and fans of limited edition poster art within and beyond the world of concert posters.

Two short promos about the newly-titled documentary, and ... an exclusive interview with the director and producer."


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