Bidspirit auction | A Collection of Vintage Toys


A Collection of Vintage Toys and Games Featuring Marshall Brodien Magic Sets, Mattel Upsy Downsy, and Wooly Willy - This vintage toy collection includes a variety of American-made games and character memorabilia primarily from the 1960s and early 1970s. The group features two boxed magic sets. The first is a TV Magic Set, which displays 15 magic tricks on the lid, including a Handkerchief Vanisher, Soda Bottle Trick, and Multiplying Rabbits. The second is a TV Magic Kit that indicates 10 magic tricks and includes a Bonus Book of 50 Mystifying Tricks. Both magic set boxes feature the image and name of Marshall Brodien. Also included is a Mattel Upsy Downsy Happidiculous New World playland box. The packaging is for the Happy-Go-Round set and is printed with the characters Tingle Dingle, Foozie-Woozie, and others. The box carries a 1969 copyright for Mattel, Inc., Hawthorne, Calif., and notes it was manufactured for Mattel and printed in Hong Kong. Two Wooly Willy Magnetic Personality drawing toys are present. These classic toys consist of a cardboard backing featuring a bald face behind a plastic screen containing iron filings, operated by a red plastic magnetic wand. One card bears several purple ink stamps reading OCT 11 1963. The cards are marked 39 cents and Made in U.S.A. The lot is rounded out with a wooden Webster Bankers and Brokers cigar box containing black wooden dominoes with white pips and red wooden checkers. A glass Mason jar is filled with wooden ring-shaped components and features a lid with handwritten text referencing rotini pasta and dates from 2023 to 2025. Character collectibles include a California Raisins PVC figure in a top hat with a drum set, a green plastic leprechaun keychain marked Fitzgeralds CASINO - HOTEL, and a small jester character figure on a yellow base marked Disney. The Wooly Willy cards measure approximately 7 inches wide by 10 inches long.