295 US Hwy 22 East, Suite 204 West, Whitehouse Station, NJ 08889, United States
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The Morning of Saturday, August 3rd, we will bid farewell to a unique legacy collection of American toys and banks: The Haradin Family Collection. A magnificent and richly historical archive, it spans multiple generations of a family whose roots are deeply embedded in two communities: their native Pittsburgh and the borderless realm of antique toy and bank collecting. This auction hits especially close to home for us because the Pittsburgh clan that built the collection includes our lifelong friend and colleague Ray Haradin, the "R" of RSL Auction Company. The Afternoon of Saturday, August 3rd we will be selling the world class paper lithography collection of Carl & Linda Thomas of Bluefield, WV. Included are many fantastic skittle and knockdown sets, about 15 sets of paper litho trains and about 15 to 20 paper litho horse drawn toys. Also included in this sale is a selection of still banks, penny toys, and the Kobe Toy Collection of Ron & Sandy Rosen.
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LOT 432:
Rare Peep Show ABC Blocks
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Sold for: $1,000
Price including buyer’s premium:
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1,275
Start price:
$
600
Estimated price :
$1,250 - $1,750
Buyer's Premium: 27.5%
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Rare Peep Show ABC Blocks
Made by McLoughlin Brothers. New York - Patented 1884. Box is 8 1/2" Tall x 10" Long. Learning your ABC's is the most important skill to master as a small child, a vital link towards learning the more advanced skills of reading and writing. As such, toy makers were eager to supply a wide variety of educational toys to parents. Such playthings often featured colorful visual imagery that not only taught the alphabet, but further reinforced it with the application of letters to words. For the Peep Show ABC Blocks, McLoughlin actually presents the alphabet twice, as both capital and lowercase letters. This is one of the rarest and most important alphabet toys in existence.
Condition: Extraordinary Condition.
