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Silvery Metal TOY MARCHING DRUM, Sticks, Noble & Cooley - eBay (item 310019464534 end time Feb-07-08 18:17:07 PST) This drum and drum sticks comes in the original box sleeve that's marked, "55-8, Not recommended for children under three years of age. Toy Marching Drum, Noble & Cooley." The sides, rims and three springs holding it together are all metal, the skins are not. I don't know what they're made of, something sturdy but it's not leather.
Noble & Cooley make real drums and musical toys. Research has shown that children exposed to music and instruments at an early age have significantly improved their ability to think and learn. http://www.musicaltoys.net/
The drum is 8 inches wide and 4 1/2 inches high. The two drum sticks are 7 3/4" by 3/8". The skins are unmarked. There are many marks on the shiny silver rims and a few minor scratches on the sides.
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1975 HC Fiction TOM MIX DIED FOR YOUR SINS w/ Clipping! - eBay (item 310019461552 end time Feb-07-08 18:03:02 PST)Tom Mix Died for Your Sins A Novel Based on His Life by Darryl Ponicsan is a hardcover with dust jacket, illustrated with 14 pages of photographs. It was published in 1975 by Delacorte Press, New York. This copy is from the second printing.
Tucked inside is an Oct. 17, 1992 DuBois Courier-Express clipping with the headline "Duffy wants to portray Tom Mix." I don't know if they ever made a movie on Tom Mix based on this book or if Patrick Duffy starred in it. DuBois, PA is where Tom Mix grew up.
To learn more about Tom Mix who made 336 films between 1910 to 1935, visit: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Mix
From the dust jacket flap:
Here is a brilliantly colorful evocation of the life and times of Tom Mix, as based on fact but told in fiction. The rodeo and ranching days, the movie stunts and the movie glamour, the private and public circuses, Mix's wives and girls, are all covered in a tale as authentic as it is engrossing.
Kid Bandera tells the story--tells it with wit, cynicism, and affection. When he met Tom in 1904, Tom was 24 and knew nothing about being a cowboy. But he knew how to ride, he knew how to fight, how to tell stories, and how to ingratiate himself with every girl who came along.
The Kid and Tom were lawmen together in Kansas, worked a combination ranch and wild west show in Oklahoma. And Tom Mix learned his craft--as he learned every craft he tried--and there were no stunts too hard for him.
When Tom Mix went to Hollywood, he brought his incredible stunts to the silent films and brought incredible wealth--and world fame--to himself. Before his career ended, there were command performances in Europe. For neither before nor since was there a movie cowboy his equal.
Tom Mix Died For Your Sins is the story of a larger than life cowboy in a larger than life era.
Darryl Ponicsan is the author of five previous novels, outstanding among them The Last Detail and Cinderella Liberty. He wrote the screenplay for both of those books, as he has for the forthcoming motion picture of Tom Mix Died For Your Sins. He lives in Ojai, California.
This book is in very good condition and the dust jacket has been repaired with glue where it was torn.
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3 STAR TREK CUPS 1991 25th Anniversary 7-11 Slurpees! - eBay (item 310018925132 end time Feb-05-08 20:13:06 PST) These three plastic Super Slurpee cups from 7-11 came out in 1991 to commemorate the 25th anniversary of Star Trek. There are pictures of characters and Paramount, 7-11, Star Trek and 25th anniversary logos.
See Spock, Captain Kirk, Dr. McCoy, Uhura, Scotty, Captain Picard, Riker, Deanna Troi, Data, Worf and assorted creatures.
The cups are in excellent condition with no cracks or damaged rims. There's an area above Worf's head where the black color is chafed and a mark through Spock's eye.
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Round Domed VICTORIAN GILDED BIRD CAGE 13-Inch Metal! - eBay (item 310018923808 end time Feb-05-08 20:05:21 PST) This decorative Victorian thirteen-inch high gold-painted round and domed metal bird cage is not for housing any real live bird. There's a bar perch for a mechanical bird to grace your home. Perhaps you could put a plant inside, like ivy that could trail its leaves out through the bars.
I see no maker's mark anywhere. The domed lid opens when you undo a metal latch. At the top of the cage is a very strong metal hook to hang the cage. The front door has a latch that looks like it works, but it seemed reluctant to move, so I didn't force it.
It's entirely metal except for a wooden part between the lid and hook. The wire is twisted on the sides, straight on the bottom. There is fine mesh around the bottom band, top band and lining the lid. The perch is a thin flat bar. The gold isn't bright, but rather aged and muted.
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Vintage SUSY GOOSE SWEEPER Tin Litho Musical Toy '50s! - eBay (item 310018631396 end time Feb-04-08 19:13:47 PST) This vintage toy carpet sweeper is marked on the top, "Susy Goose Musical Tone Sweeper. 'it really works!'" Under one dump tray it's marked, "Mfg. by Kiddie Brush & Toy Co., Jonesville, Mich., U.S.A." The tin litho graphics have a fifties look to us.
The back panel says, "Guarantee. This Susy Goose toy is guaranteed to please. If it isn't completely satisfactory please return and we'll repair or replace and pay transportation both ways. 'The Simple Tasks Mold Character.'"
The music is the sound of a jingling bell. I can hear it above the squeak of the wheels that could use some grease. I can't see the bell.
The body of the sweeper is tin with colorful vintage graphics in very good condition nailed to wooden sides. The handle is wood painted red. The black wheels are plastic and marked, "Susy Goose." The red wheels touch the black ones and rotate the brush with soft bristles. The two green dirt catchers turn to dump just like a real sweeper.
The handle is 18 inches long. The body is 7 inches wide and 2 inches thick. Total length is 23 1/2 inches. There's some minor patina beside Susy's face and a couple dents in the back panel, and rust spots on the bottom.
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Vintage Saalfield 22 ACTIVITY BOOKS in Orig Box 1953! - eBay (item 310018339884 end time Feb-03-08 18:42:38 PST) This vintage box of Saalfield Activity Books holds a complete set of twenty books plus two duplicates. The art is utterly charming and each book is marked, "Copyright MCMLIII, The Saalfield Pub. Co., Akron Ohio, Made in U.S.A." and "Mager" who was likely the artist. So this box of books was produced in 1953.
The lid says, "20 Activity Books, 6 to 10 Years, Coloring, Games, Dots, Mazes, Things to Make, Hidden Pictures, Quizzes, Stencils, Cut-outs. Saalfield." And there's a seal: "Commended by the Consumer Service Bureau of Parents' Magazine as Advertised Therein."
I thought the books were new and untouched, but as I opened pages at random for photographing, I hit a page with handwriting. Close examination reveals twelve are untouched, ten have been worked in. Nine are fully worked. One is half worked. Most of it is pencil, some is crayon.
A few pages in one of the two "Connect the Lines" books may have been ironed to make a transfer, as the ink bleeds through the page, showing the art of both sides at once.
12 Untouched Titles:- Little Zebra and His Pals, Pictures to Color (2 copies, one minty, one with indentations in the cover)
- Connect the Lines
- How to Draw
- Flower Book, Connect the Lines
- Cut and Color on the Farm
- Let's Draw
- Things to Make
- Stencil Play
- Crayon Fun
- Let's Color
- Easy Things to Do
10 Marked Titles:- Connect the Lines (all pages lightly penciled, several ironed pages)
- Find the Hidden Pictures (blue colored pencil check marks)
- Easy Dot to Dot Pictures (all pages lightly penciled)
- The Dot to Dot Zoo (all pages lightly penciled)
- Dots (all pages have crayon line)
- Mazes (all pages have crayon line)
- Games and Puzzles (half the pages have colored pencil or crayon marks)
- Follow the Dots (all pages lightly penciled)
- Big Quiz (all pages have crayon marks)
- Lots to Do (most pages have crayon marks)
The box is solid. The books are all very nice, even the ones worked in. None of them have been done in ink, just pencil and some crayon. My artist husband recently discovered that crayon can be erased with care. He makes it look easy. I never tried.
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