Vintage toys

[Phil]

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These papercraft toys are from the LA Times' "Junior Times" section, circa 1922-23, they're little mechanical paper puppets.

LINK2
Quoted from the page;
"Long ago, Broderbund software created "The Toy Shop", which would print 3D paper models that could be cut out and assembled. Unfortunately the old software no longer works on modern day computers, so we resurrected the blueprints here! We have listed all 20 paper toys, their instructions, and the scanned blueprints."

[SCEtoAUX]

Yep, those are some neat models. Someone has all of those LA Times toys gatherered in one pdf, but I forget where it is. I made a few of those a couple of years ago. Simple yet fun.

Here is another source for those automata in your second link
WordPress Blog
There was a discussion about them earlier about how the original program box had some thick card in it to make the toys. The cardstock ones made now would need some reenforcement for some of the toys. I built the mechanical clock, the carousel, the medieval catapult, and the helicraft. The catapult and helicraft definitely need some reenforcement. The force of the rubberband crushes the cardstock without it. The mechanical bank works real good, but you have to tweak it a bit. Make sure you sand when and where the instructions tell you to.

[Phil]

Thanx for that info and link Doug!
I had not seen these before, and I thought I had seen it all!
I love seeing card/paper toys from the past, we've come a long way!

[jagolden01]

Phil,

Those are nice pieces of the past at Barnacle Press.
Somewhere in my archives, I have the village Blacksmith that I colored and It does look great.
I gave the color fills a loose hand-colored treatment in Photoshop.
I still haven't built it but looks great hanging on the wall as just a sheet.