Vintage Wind-Up Toys
Toward the end of the 19th century, European makers of spring-driven and friction toys were successfully marketing their toys in the United States. Their toys were so inexpensive that they were underselling American clockwork toy makers who were producing this type of toy.
Realizing the potential, however, American firms began to market these mechanical spring-driven toys as quickly as possible. One of the first American makers (prior to 1900) was Sehlesinger. After 1900 both domestic and European spring-driven toys were widely available in the U.S. Strauss Company began making spring-driven tinplate toys around 1908, and the Marx Toy Company a few years later.
Marx eventually became the leading maker of these mechanical windup toys with colorful lithographed patterns and displays. Thanks to "plastics" most mechanical toys gradually died out after World War II.
Listed below is a large selection of Vintage Wind-Up Toys for sale.
| COLLECTION 8 PIECES SCHUCO 1930s DANCING CLOWNS SUPER
$3,150.00 $3,650.00 
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