Gaily painted or printed up-vehicles, characters and creatures in tin-plated steel, were the mainstay of toy making for over a century. Available in commercial form since the 1850s, vintage tin-plate ...

A collection of more than 2,000 traditional tin plate toys rescued from closing shops and factories is set to fetch thousands of pounds at auction. Arthur Findlater, 57, started the collection as a ...

The creative team has made a wide array of artistic projects ranging from miniature steam boats to children’s pinwheels. Marc (aka ‘Tinplate Dad”) began working in this medium about 15 years ago, ...

The toys form part of one of the largest single collections in the UK A collection of antique toys thought to be one of the UK's largest ever single collections is to go under the hammer in Norfolk ...

Hispano-Suiza is one the most important marques from the early days of motoring. The automobile company was named Hispano-Suiza, which translates as Spanish Swiss, by its founders Marc Birkigt and ...

This rollercoaster is an example of a tin-plate toy from the 1920s. Many toys of this kind were made in Germany and France, and this rollercoaster is thought to have been made in Nuremberg. It is in ...

THE long vanished world of Birmingham's most famous toymaker has been brought back to life at the city's Central Library thanks to one man's treasured collection. Until the end of the month the ...

HAVE you got a goldmine of old toys stashed in your attic ready to go under the hammer? Classic toys can regularly make hundreds, even thousands, of pounds at auction and expert Glen Chapman of C&T ...

Eighteen years ago, the Hong Kong-born graphic designer Marvin Chan stepped into a small toy shop in Kota Tinggi, Malaysia, and bought a few old “made in Shanghai” tin-plate toys. Little did he know ...

The toys form part of one of the largest single collections in the UK A collection of antique toys thought to be one of the UK's largest ever single collections is to go under the hammer in Norfolk ...