Vintage Fisher Price Toys

The Fisher Price Toy Company was originally started by Herman Fisher and Irving Price around 1931. Following World War II, newly affluent Americans demanded toys for a totally new generation of kids (what are now referred to as "baby boomers"). Fisher Price was probably more to the educational end of toy making than any company before it and they believed in making toys that were meant to be played with. They also stressed "toy safety" much more so than had any prior toy company. The one real drawback with these characteristics is that most of their toys were handled a great deal over the years, so mint condition ones are a real rarity.