Allentown Toy Show 2018 Day One Dealer Setup is Friday for most of the dealers to set up their wares. It also allows early buyers in for the $75.00. I get in early as I help three brothers, who have been friends for forty years. This is my closest show only ten blocks away from the house.
Allentown Toy Show 2018 Day One Dealer Setup The Show
The show is held at our local fairgrounds. It is offical title is the Allentown Antique Toy Sho0w. No over the counter toys are allowed. So action figures stay at home. Instead you will many of the rare toys that you would see in museums. There is a wide range of toys from the 40’s to 60’s. It is enjoyment to see marvelous toys.
The show sadly in a way has been on a decline. One whole row is gone and the aisles are wider. Still there is lots to look for and you never know what you will find.
Allentown Toy Show 2018 Day One Dealer Setup The Hunt
After helping my friends, I started to roam around the show. One of my first stops was Mike Rosso of Stockade Miniatures. Mike closed his shop and is only doing shows. Mike had a wide range of toy and toy soldiers. I found several items from him, the best thing was the Marx WWII German motorcycle. He had other things including a partial Marx castle with the vacuum form base. As I have no room for it and it pain to ship. It was interesting I had been offered one in the box earlier in the show which I passed on as well. There was also a Marx vacuum form Moon Base at the show.
From Mike’s table I went to Kerry Dunable’s table but most of the good items were gone. Still I was able to get some Marx horses that have been selling on Ebay.
I also saw Tom Stine and Pat Mugavin. Pat had gotten from Mike the rare Marx zoo cage. This cage was used only in a rare playset. It would have been good to use in the western town jail. Tom had gotten some items including a western town. Tom had gotten parts to Marx Perils of Pauline game. The characters turn up loose from the game.
I left the show after a few hours and will go back tomorrow and see if I find anything else.
Having an established, recurring Antique Toy Show just ten blocks from your home is pretty nice. It’s like Ed B. & Mike K. living just a 15-minute drive from OTSN in Schaumburg. When I lived in metro-Detroit, even the Rick Berry/Joseph Saine Michigan Toy Soldier Show took me 45 minutes to get to. Now that I’ve retired to Indiana, I can drive two hours to the west to get to the Midwest Toy Soldier Show, or I can drive two hours to the east to get to the Columbus Toy Soldier Show. Or, I can drive four hours to the northwest to get to the Chicago Toy Soldier Show. As I approach age 70, all these distances start to feel somewhat long.
As to that Marx castle with the vacu-form base: At the Columbus Toy Soldier Show last year, Rick Keller, after buying several boxed playsets from a retiring collector, decided to pass on a complete, boxed, vacu-form castle Marx playset because he said the original large box just made it too difficult to handle, stack, and store.