LIKE A KID WITH A NEW AN OLD TOY
Toys cherished during childhood have a way of becoming relevant again in adulthood. Decades after first playing with a Marx wind-up climbing toy tractor as a boy, Perry Coziahr came across one at a flea market. That launched a collection that today numbers 60 – and an active restoration operation.
“Disassembly and repair are a lot like restoring old farm tractors (another hobby of mine), robbing parts off of old salvage toys to make one good toy out of two,” he says. “I have concentrated on toys from the early 1930s to 1950s because the earlier toys are madxe of tin, rather than plastic.”
Marx lithographed patterns
