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Tone wrote:The tail on the aircraft depicted on the box art differs from that of the toy.
Early Japanese toy boxes I have seen are plain corrugated board with labels glued to them, but I suppose there must be exceptions to that rule, as seen here. It's certainly a 1930s toy and not postwar.
One source I read on the "Danefield" robot site stated that Japanese toy production ended in 1938. If that is true than your Autogiro could not have been made in 1940. If R-39 is inspired by a real Pitcairn Autogiro dating from 1940 and not a coincidence, the robot site poster is mistaken.
hovermd wrote:This is the only example of an autogiro "penny toy" that I've seen.
The toy is unmarked and is in the same style as a number of both German and Japanese pre-war airplane penny toy examples.
If I had to hazard a guess, I'd say it was made in Japan simply because it features an early piece of plastic tube that suspends the main rotor above the fuselage. I'm not sure the Germans would have incorporated plastic into the design.
I have two examples with different paint schemes. They're the only ones I've ever seen.
Tone wrote:I noted this on-line auction this evening and I wondered if it were authentic:
http://www.ebay.com/itm/RARE-OLD-TIN-PE ... SwnKFYRgpYhovermd wrote:This is the only example of an autogiro "penny toy" that I've seen.
The toy is unmarked and is in the same style as a number of both German and Japanese pre-war airplane penny toy examples.
If I had to hazard a guess, I'd say it was made in Japan simply because it features an early piece of plastic tube that suspends the main rotor above the fuselage. I'm not sure the Germans would have incorporated plastic into the design.
I have two examples with different paint schemes. They're the only ones I've ever seen.
hovermd wrote:Here's my best aquisition of 2012: the C.K (Kuramochi) / E.T.C.O. (Tomiyama) R-674 clockwork autogiro airplane. It's definitely rare; one of the five variants those companys partnered to produce in the 1930s (that I am aware of). Based on my experience, this is the second most rare of the C.K / E.T.C.O autogiros...
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