American Antique Toys 1830 - 1900

American toys up to the turn of the nineteenth century reveal a simple folk art style. This illustrates a large collection of the toys that American grown-ups were giving American children in the period from 1830 until the turn of the century. Handmade or mass-produced, they are beautifully and soundly crafted in the materials - chiefly wood, tin and cast iron - that toymakers worked with in the pre-plastics era.