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After six years of running with the same look to the website I decided to bring a fresh look to the site. I think the new look is cleaner and…

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Over the last couple of years I have been getting requests for Keystone pressed steel parts. This is something that I do not deal with. My focus is the wooden…

In the last couple of days I have added more than thirty new toys to the Keystone catalog.  There should be that many more added in the next few.  I…

Jacrim Manufacturing Company Boston, Massachusetts 1922 – 1934 Founders:  Charles H. Jackson, Arthur L. Jackson and Chester A. Rimmer   Jacrim Manufacturing Company was founded in 1922 in Malden, Massachusetts…

Keystone Manufacturing Company Boston, Massachusetts 1919-1960 Founders: Edward Swartz, J. M. Welsman, Isadore Marks and Benjamin Marks   Keystone Manufacturing Company was founded in 1919 to produce moving picture machines. …

I have been working on a Jacrim Tom Thumb wooden train that I acquired recently.  The wooden train was manufactured sometime between 1929 and 1934.  A similar train that is…

I found this poem yesterday while doing some research.  It is a toy poem from 1919 and definitely drips with patriotism. The pennies spent on little toys For Uncle Sam’s…

I want to wish you all a Merry Christmas and a prosperous New Year.  May you find that special toy in your hunting next year. Derrick

One of the interesting side effects of doing research on Keystone MFG. is I am developing family histories for several of the key members of Keystone Mfg.  I am putting one together…

So what is it about toy collecting that makes us become “obsessive”?  Is it mainly that the items we covet come along less often than the items we want from…