Old Salem Toy Museum & T.A. Gray Collection 2010-11-20 Auction - 647 Price Results - Pook & Pook, Inc. with Noel Barrett in PA - Page 7
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Downingtown, PA, United States
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Old Salem Toy Museum & T.A. Gray Collection

The Old Salem Toy Museum along with toys from the Thomas A. Gray collection to be sold at auction in New Hope, Pa. on November 19 & 20, 2010.Last May the Old Salem Toy Museum in Old Salem, N.C., closed its doors for the last time on a spectacular collection of antique toys, holiday items, dollhouses, miniatures and other children's playthings, some dating to as early as 225 A.D. The collection was built over many years by businessman Thomas A. Gray and his mother Anne P. Gray, members of a highly respected family of North Carolina philanthropists. Both Tom Gray's grandfather, James A. Gray, and his great-uncle, Bowman Gray Sr., held the position of chairman of the board of R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Company. One would presume correctly that the museum's toy collection ranked among the very finest of its type
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Wallis's Wonders of Nature Game: folding game board of 26 hand-colored engraved images of the "wonders" backed in linen including images of Niagara Falls, ice mountains of the North Pole, pillars of sand in the Arabian desert, etc.,
0400: Wallis's Wonders of Nature GameEst. $400-$500
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Mansion of Happiness Board Game: this is a very nice example of one of the earliest American board games, published by D.P. & S.B. Ives of Massachusetts in the 1860's, it is "An Instructive Moral and Entertaining Amusement" Size:
0401: Mansion of Happiness Board GameEst. $200-$300
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An Early Deck of French Playing Cards: this is a very early 52 card deck - the images are wood block printed and hand colored but most unusual is that each face card is unique and the kings and queens and in one instance a jack are named:
0403: An Early Deck of French Playing CardsEst. $400-$500
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George IV Coronation Scroll Toy: a marvelous hand colored lithographed paper on cloth scroll depicts the coronation procession of George IV on July 19, 1821; 28 feet long and depicting approximately 500 persons - the scroll fits
0405: George IV Coronation Scroll ToyEst. $400-$600
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An English Scrolling Race Day Panorama: this amazing paper scroll fits into a wooden case with winding spindle, the image is lithographed in sepia on a paper scroll which measure an amazing 14' 10" but the scroll has been cut and only 79"
0406: An English Scrolling Race Day PanoramaEst. $800-$1,200
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English Public Gardens Peepshow: three-dimensional pull-out peep-show, concertina style, with 6 hand colored lithographed paper plates including first with viewing port and last - the 4 interior panels are cut out so one can see
0407: English Public Gardens PeepshowEst. $300-$500
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Lane's 1809 Pocket Globe in Case: 2.75 inch pocket globe, the sphere made up of twelve lacquered gores applied to a papier mache sphere with cartouche reading "Lane's Pocket Globe London 1809" centered in the Pacific Ocean between
0410: Lane's 1809 Pocket Globe in CaseEst. $2,000-$2,500
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English Wood Cased Sand Toy: a mahogany clock-type case on four brass ball feet with arched glassed opening in face; wooden hinged door in back for access to removable wood reservoir; arcaded pediment with pewter clock face set
0411: English Wood Cased Sand ToyEst. $800-$1,200
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German Cobblers Moving Picture: colorful lithographed paper animated picture with clockwork motor, various movements: young cobbler hammers and kicks over table while older cobbler moves head and pulls thread, encased in a black
0412: German Cobblers Moving PictureEst. $800-$1,000
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Dannhorn Magic Lantern with box: painted tin and brass lantern on grain painted wood base, in original cardboard box with fitted compartment for the 11 decal on glass slides, chimney, and lens; illustrative label on box depicts a
0414: Dannhorn Magic Lantern with boxEst. $300-$400
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Ombro-Cinema - Shadow Movie: this French toy creates the illusion of movement with a fractionated black and white image scroll passing behind a black and clear striped translucent panel, all this takes place within a charmingly
0415: Ombro-Cinema - Shadow MovieEst. $600-$800
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Milton Bradley Zoetrope: this is the largest and earliest Bradley zoetrope sometimes referred to as a Parlor Zoetrope to distinguish it from the smaller toy models made by Bradley, it is offered with a group of 9 original
0416: Milton Bradley ZoetropeEst. $300-$500
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Phenakistoscope with original box: a rare pre-cinema toy seldom found in original box with wood and brass handle and 12 hand colored lithographed discs - 7 show people in action: blacksmith, leap frogging men, dancers, etc. and 5 have
0417: Phenakistoscope with original boxEst. $1,500-$2,500
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Goodchild's Trocheidoscope: this complex optical device was based on the concept of persistence of vision earlier demonstrated by the Thaumotrope - in this case colors were blended as opposed to objective images, the mechanism
0418: Goodchild's TrocheidoscopeEst. $2,000-$3,000
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McLoughlin Magic Mirror Anamorphic Toy: the wooden box with sliding lid houses 24 anamorphic views which are rendered visible by placing the mirrored glass tube on the circle centered below each image - one of the great optical toys with
0419: McLoughlin Magic Mirror Anamorphic ToyEst. $300-$600
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Polyorama Panoptique: paper covered wood viewing box with 6 original slides, a classic French optical toy which by alternately opening and closing top and rear doors light is shifted from front of view to the rear causing
0420: Polyorama PanoptiqueEst. $1,200-$1,500
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Lot: 3 Alabaster Peep Devices: alabaster bodied egg and tubes on bases, turning knobs rotate pictures which are viewed through glass lens on top, popular from around 1850 until 1900 often sold as souvenirs with exterior paint
0421: Lot: 3 Alabaster Peep DevicesEst. $200-$400
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Lot: 12 Books on Automatons & Optical Toys: includes Automata - The Golden Age by Bailly, The Automata Collection of Christian Bailly by Theriault, Metal Toys & Automata by King, Automata & Mechanical Toys by Hillier, Puppets & Automata by von
0422: Lot: 12 Books on Automatons & Optical ToysEst. $150-$200
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