You have entered the Museum Of Yesterday galleries containing the collection of 19th and 20th Century Church Art, Antique Medical Equipment, Scientific and Laboratory Apparatus, Traditional Hand Tools, Household Furnishings, Appliances, and Antique Toys.
Please feel free to browse the displays. Perhaps you will meet an old friend from your past here.
THE TOY SHOP
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You are now in the first gallery of the Museum Of Yesterday's Toy, Household and Scientific Artifacts collection. Please use the navigation bar below to move to the next gallery when you are ready to continue your tour. Here, we present our collection of antique mechancal toys.
Please note that our antique toy collection also contains many model railroad accessories from the 1930's through the mid 1950's. Those items are in our Railroad gallery and can be see on our Railroad History Page. |
Working steam engine and boiler plant by Jensen Toy Company
This 3" high engine was made by a Nineteenth Century machinist apprentice in New Orleans. Apprentices were required to demonstrate their skills by building tiny working models of large-scale equipment on which they would be working.
Operating Steam Engine by Graham Industries of Rio Rancho, NM
Mamod Steam Tractor (working steam model that is fired on alcohol) made by the Mamod Tractor Company of Great Britain
Wheeden #42 Steam Engine and Boiler unit has electric heating element.
1896 German made toy drillpress sold as accessory for antique steam engines.
(A full line of these miniature machine tools were sold in the late 1800's as modeler's tools)
(A full line of these miniature machine tools were sold in the late 1800's as modeler's tools)
A collection of mini-shop tools designed to be run by toy steam engines, .
Above: a mint condition, never used 1929 A.C. Gilbert Erector Set that belonged to a university president / engineer. Below, an original Gilbert Erector Set magazine ad from the 1930's.
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