A Century of Wheeled Toys Aimed at Boys
Who Wouldn't Want a Wind Up Dick Tracy Car? This one is in space 88 at Finders Keepers As the mom of four boys who were all obsessed with both cars and Legos, I wondered about toys with wheels? Research shows that wheeled toys have been around as long as the wheel has. Kid’s toys mimic the world around them, so if the family had wheels so did the kids. Wheeled toys and pull toys have captured imaginations for a very, very long time. Still in marvelous existence, historians and archaeologists have found a cat pull toy from an ancient Egyptian household in Thebes, sans wheels nowadays; a miniature Trojan style horse from Greece and on the other side of the world, a Mexican Remojada deer pull toy from Vera Cruz. 10th Century Greek Horse Vera Cruz Mexico Clay Wheeled Deer Egyptian Cat Toy from Thebes But before the 1850s toys with wheels were mostly carved wood. The industrial age changed all that and with factories came new processes and wa...