I started collecting antique tin toys for less than 2 months ( petroliana and soda items are quite difficult to find at the moment at good price here in Belgium ) and I got in love with those great and wonderfully made toys, I try to only buy quality toys and for the moment I have german, french and japanese toys, anyone here also collects wind up or battery tin toys ?
here are mine from my private collection, all of them are unrestored and most of them are still working great
French, charles rossignol wind up trolley bus from 1930's
another french charles rossignol bus but electric
a japanese ford thunderbird 1963 battery operated by cragstan
a japanese nomura battery operated spaceman
a german distler, tramway train electric
a german Tippco constellation KLM airplane
an english wells brimtoy wind up bus, I love this one, the bus ride, stop and ring then restarts
and 3 german schuco wind up toy Varianto, all of them are in working codition
model 3041 in blue
model 3041 in red
and truck model 3042