Vintage 1930 Moon Mullins & Kayo Tin Litho Windup Handcar Toy w/ Box, Louis Marx

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Vintage 1930 Moon Mullins & Kayo Tin Litho Windup Handcar Toy w/ Box, Louis Marx:
$350.00

Welcome to our sale! Many of you knowus as longtime collectors and sellers of antique and vintage Hallowe\'en,Christmas, and Easter holiday memorabilia, paper ephemera, antique dolls andtoys, and lovely old china and glassware. We have been askedtoshare some amazing pieces from the collection of a longtime, knowledgeable antique and vintagetoy collector! Please keep watching our listings for more!This is the fabulous Moon Mullins &Kayo on a Handcar that was made by Louis Marx & Co. circa 1930. Thislithographed toy features the famous comic characters on a clockwork-drivenhandcar with train track wheels. It measures 6 ½” long. It works well withgreat animated action and bell-ringing sound.We particularly love the colors usedhere, which include old red, golden yellow, black and spring green. The toy isin excellent condition with some scratches and small rubs to the paint. The box,which is an amazing collectible all by itself, retains all of its flaps, has afew small creases to the tabs and one short tear to a tab.The illustrations on the box aremagnificent and it reads Moon Mullins & Kayo on a Handcar, Marx, Made inUSA, Louis Marx & Co. 200-5th Ave., New York, New York USA, Patent Pending.On the flaps it also reads Licensed by Famous Artists Syndicate, One of theMany Marx Toys, Have You All of Them? The illustration appears on both sides ofthe box.We think this classic and fun tin winduptoy, in its superb condition and with its box, would make an outstandingacquisition for the seasoned antique and vintage toy collector!Here is a history of the Louis Marx toycompany that we found online:

Founded in 1919 in New York City by Louis Marx andhis brother David, the company\'s basic aim was to \"give the customer moretoy for less money,\" and stressed that \"quality is notnegotiable\" - two values that made the company highly successful.Initially, after working for Ferdinand Strauss, Marx, born in 1894, was adistributor with no products or manufacturing capacity (King 1986, 188). Marxraised money as a middle man, studying available products, finding ways to makethem cheaper, and then closing sales. Enough funding was raised to purchasetooling for two obsolete tin toys - called the Alabama Coon Jigger and Zippothe Climbing Monkey - from previous employer Strauss (Time Magazine 1955; King1986, 188). With subtle changes, Marx was able to turn these toys into hits,selling more than eight million of each within two years. Another success wasthe \"Mouse Orchestra\" with tinplate mice on piano, fiddle, snare, andone conducting (King 1986, 188-189).By 1922, both Louis and David Marx weremillionaires. Initially, Marx produced few original toys by predicting the hitsand manufacturing them less expensively than the competition. The yo-yo is anexample: although Marx is sometimes wrongly credited with inventing the toy,Marx was quick to market its own version. During the 1920s about 100 millionMarx yo-yos were sold.Unlike most companies, Marx\'s revenues grew duringthe Great Depression, with the establishment of production facilities ineconomically hard-hit industrial areas of Pennsylvania, West Virginia, andEngland. By 1937, the company had more than $3.2 million in assets ($42.6 Mil.in 2005 dollars), with debt of just over $500,000. Marx was the largest toymanufacturer in the world by the 1950s. In 1955, a Time Magazine articleproclaimed Louis Marx \"the Toy King,\" and that year, the company hadabout $50 million in sales (Time Magazine 1955). Marx was the initial inducteein the Toy Industry Hall of Fame, and his plaque proclaimed him \"The HenryFord of the toy industry.\"At its peak, Louis Marx and Company operated threemanufacturing plants in the United States: Erie, Pennsylvania, Girard,Pennsylvania, and Glen Dale, West Virginia. The Erie plant was the oldest andlargest, while the Girard plant, acquired in 1934 with the purchase of GirardModel Works, produced toy trains, and the Glen Dale plant produced toy vehicles(Marx Trains 2007). Additionally, Marx operated numerous plants overseas, andin 1955 five percent of the toys Marx sold in the U.S.A. were made in Japan(Time Magazine 1955).

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