TIMPO TOYS [TRADE CATALOGUE]
- Used
- near fine
- Paperback
- first
- Condition
- Near Fine
- Seller
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London, London, United Kingdom
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About This Item
Model Toys Limited, London., 1961 16 pages. [1961]. Profusely illustrated trade catalogue of different martial and military plastic "unbreakable" figures; first page in colour. 21.5 x 27 cm. Staple bound. Royal blue and grey laminated card covers (slightly curling up at the fore edges). Lower corner very slightly bumped- a near fine copy. Timpo Toys Ltd. was an English toy company that started as Toy Importers Company in 1938, manufacturing various toys out of wood, bakelite and composition until the end of World War II. Following the war, Timpo made hollowcast metal toy soldiers; with soldiers manufactured in plastic from 1954. The firm ceased operations in 1978. The assortment of Timpo Toys consisted of several figurine series, with the American frontier series and the Knight series forming the core of the product range. Since Timpo further developed the series in the course of production, some series could be divided into generations (e.g. there are four generations within the Cowboy series). Overview of the series: American frontier series, Cowboy series, Native Americans and Apaches series, Union Army series, Confederate States Army series, Mexican series, Knight series, Crusader series, Medieval Knights series, Vizor Knights series, Gold Knights series, Silver Knights series, Black Knights series, Romans series, Vikings series, Arabs series, French Foreign Legions series, American Revolutionary War series, Inuit series, World War II series, Farm series, & Guard series. This is a scarce original toy catalogue in unusually good condition & Timpo toys are very collectable today. No other example located online.. 1st Edition. Soft cover. Near Fine.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Camden Lock Books, ABA, IOBA. (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 4485
- Title
- TIMPO TOYS [TRADE CATALOGUE]
- Format/Binding
- Paperback
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Publisher
- Model Toys Limited, London.
- Date Published
- 1961
- Keywords
- EPHEMERA,
Terms of Sale
Camden Lock Books, ABA, IOBA.
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About the Seller
Camden Lock Books, ABA, IOBA.
Biblio member since 2019
London, London
About Camden Lock Books, ABA, IOBA.
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You can meet me on my stand at Firsts 2024, London's Rare Book Fair, at the Saatchi Gallery, London SW3 4RY, 16-19 May 2024.
I also am joint owner of Burley Fisher Books , an independent bookshop offering new and secondhand books.
My book expertise came with four years as Chairman of London P.B.F.A. , many more years of exhibiting at monthly London Rare Book Fairs & owning my own bookshops continuously since 1984.
Every book here was valued by the person who first bought it and will be just as prized by the person who buys it now from my shopping website.
I am an accredited professional & a full member of the ABA, ILAB and the IOBA, "Setting the standard. The books you want...from booksellers you can trust".
You can meet me on my stand at Firsts 2024, London's Rare Book Fair, at the Saatchi Gallery, London SW3 4RY, 16-19 May 2024.
I also am joint owner of Burley Fisher Books , an independent bookshop offering new and secondhand books.
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