Vintage Japanese toy robot auction

Posted by Mark Frauenfelder, April 13, 2009 9:50 AM | permalink

Smith House Toy and Auction Company offered a bunch of old metal toy robots from Japan. The winning bids are between $1000 and $6000.

Circa 1955. Advances with walking motion as arms swing. Gun tip and springs are original. The bottom edge of his jacket has some factory touchup. Box bottom has several tears. The box top has several light creases and a small stain of some sort over the word "Explorer" that may be removable.
Winning Bid $ 6,328.00

(Levonidas@gmail.com has one of these for sale if you are interested.)

Smith House Toy and Auction Company

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#1 posted by Jack Daniel, April 13, 2009 10:07 AM

I dig that box more than the robot.

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#2 posted by kentkb, April 13, 2009 11:02 AM

Dear Mom,
Remember my toy Robots and Comic books you got rid of while I was away in the Air Force in 1970....

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#3 posted by Stefan Jones, April 13, 2009 11:16 AM

I don't know if it is still up, but one of the concourses in the San Francisco Airport has/had a wonderful exhibit of 1950 - 1960 robot and spaceship toys.

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#4 posted by Toby, April 13, 2009 12:18 PM

I'm having a sudden flashback to James Gunn's The Toy Collector.

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#5 posted by TheyAreComing, April 13, 2009 4:26 PM

Oh man, that's too cool. Toys had so much character back then.

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#6 posted by Thy, April 29, 2009 10:47 PM

Nice! I used these robots for some print designs: http://thyhoang.com/print/robots-and-stuff/