Vintage Fisher-Price toys demonstrate the power of play

A circa-1931 paper-on-wood No. 105 Bunny Scoot sold for $4,000 plus the buyer’s premium in December 2017. Image courtesy of Dan Morphy Auctions and LiveAuctioneers.
A circa-1931 paper-on-wood No. 105 Bunny Scoot sold for $4,000 plus the buyer’s premium in December 2017. Image courtesy of Dan Morphy Auctions and LiveAuctioneers.

NEW YORK — Colorful and educational Fisher-Price toys have been a staple of childhood since 1930, when the toy company was founded. The Great Depression had started a few months earlier but Herman Fisher, Helen Schelle, Irving Evans, and his wife, Margaret Evans Price, believed that children still needed to be children and that play was an important part of a child’s education.

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