![]() A lot of historians say that Hitler would never give his girlfriend a car, and question if the car existed. The most interesting toy on my site, that also spawns the most amount of controversy is the Eva Braun car. I have a whole case full Tyco World War II era toys. I also have some large scale models by Jeron, like the Chrystler Imperial in red and blue. He later became well known as an expert craftsman and toy builder, but when I bought them they weren’t worth that much, but now they’re some of the most valuable in my collection. In the early 1990s I bought some toys that were hand made by Michele Conti. His knowledge base is in really old toys, Marklins and old steamships from before the 1930s.Īlthough I didn’t start out collecting such unique toys, I just bought them here and there and now can’t believe how many rare toy cars I have. I ended up bidding against a famous toy collector from Europe, David Pressland, who wrote a book called The Art of the Tin Toy. Its one of the more significant toys I’ve bought. I registered and bought a Marklin truck with a trailer for about 200 dollars. Then I was in London in 1984, on Bond Street and there’s a Sotheby’s auction house and there was a toy auction there. Sturgeon: I bought an expensive little toy Volkswagen made by Tyco, at the time it was the most I’d spent for a toy, 300 dollars.
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