Even the paint and decals can be fixed, or like the Kenner DB5 totally repainted to perfect.Lot: 2001 - 24" LOVELY CLASSIC TETE JUMEAU BÉBÉ SIZE 11.Ī 24" (61cm) Jumeau with red stamp on back of the head, reading "DEPOSE TETE JUMEAU 11." She has a very wistful expression, with huge blue bulging paperweight eyes, a soft closed mouth with well-outlined lips and the illusion of a space between the lips. For a lot of us the 727 Boeing is the ultimate plane but the never made SST isn't bad either! Learning how to repair them and fix the lights, and even add wax back in a "smoker", has made it a lot more interesting and with practice can be done without being able to tell it's been opened. Point is, all of these are little marvels made out of thin tin and a lot of ingenuity. It is a "mystery action" and came with "crazy daisy's" on the body, you would have had to been there. There is a cylinder device behind the engine reflector that is wired in the circuit, it "smokes" something that smells like candle wax, the bellows come on when in shake mode and smoke pours out the pipe. While Cragstan did make quite a few very complicated and innovative toys, or import them, many others did as well Many of them look like Rube Goldberg contraptions inside where the magic is!The "Smoking VW Bug has a start stop mech, a shake mode with wheels stopped and a bellows that is actuated by a ring and pinion and a long shaft with what looks like a small prop. The fine quality, litography, boxes and the more complex actions and movements helped set Cragstan apart from other toy companies. Toys by Cragstan have more quality and are more detailed than other battery-OP toys. Cragstan continued to operate through the mid 1960s. It is assumed that the company's name was derived from a combination of the owners' names. Popular and collectible toys are Cragstan Crapshooters, tinplate cars, robots and mechanical astronauts. Usually, these boxes were highly decorated. Cragstan made sure the company name and logo appeared on their packaging of their tin toys, cars and robots in which they were sold.
The company's main focus was on toys with multiple -mechanical- actions, for example robots. Cragstan was a marketing and distribution firm from New York and imported post-war Japanese battery-operated and mechanical friction toys.
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