Odds Ends Part Two Toy Show Day Two Reader’s Question today was day two of Macungie Toy Show. It was bitter sweet time. Clayton Bonelli sent two photos he wanted to find out who made them.
Odds Ends Part Two Toy Show Day Two Reader’s Question Toy Show
On Saturday the Macungie Toy Show sets up in the Eyer Junior High School. Here you have mostly dealers in automotive toys. Here and there was other toys. I went to see some of my old friends in the toy hobby the Kozlowskis. There are three brothers Bob, Rich and Bill. Bill has retired so it was only Bob and Rich. I was able to get some figures and accessories for the sales. I walked around and found dealer selling reissues at a reasonable price for resale. 
He also had a Processed Plastic two and half ton truck painted. Price was good so I took a flier on it. (Update it sold within 24 hours I put it up.)
I ran into another person I have known for years Kennie Chapman. Kennie has dealt in character toys. He informed me he was retiring. Kennie said he had not bought in a year. He had statues of Captain Marvel Junior and Marvel Marvel. The two statues had costed him $375.00 years ago. Ken was trying to selling them for $200.00 with no takers. I was also a little sad as Bill Lango used to set up inside.
I went back to outside stands stopped to see Mike Russo. He had pulled out yesterday just as it started to rain. The outside really suffered because of the rain. Hopefully next year it will be better.
Odds Ends Part Two Toy Show Day Two Reader’s Question Do You Know?
Clayton had the following question.
Hello, how are you? Again I’m here looking for information on items, this time an Indian and a totem, both made of plastic.
The rope in the Indian’s hand is not original because he was holding something but I do not know what it was.
Do any of you have any knowledge of the brand, or any other help that can tell me where to look for more information?
The Indian I happen to get two at the Plastic Warrior show unpainted. I have mo idea on the totem pole.
I like those Timmee/Processed Plastic two & one half ton trucks. I’ve got six (6) of them, and they look good lined up in the motor pool of my Marx Armed Forces Training Camp displays.
Now that we’ve got all the makings of Vietnam War displays, these Timmee/Processed Plastic trucks also look good winding their way in a column through the Marx and Playmobile palm trees, with a couple of the Timmee Pershing tanks as an escort. I’ve decided I really can’t afford the excellent Plastic Platoon figures, but the TSSD Vietnam War playset (with figures, buildings, and city walls), combined with Mars & Action-Casting figures, along with the Timmee tanks and trucks, filled in with those great Playmobile palm trees, make a very complete, scenic, Vietnam War diorama, as Len Hardt proved a couple of years back with his massive Vietnam War display at the Chicago Toy Soldier Show.
The truck you’ve got displayed here looks especially good with the collector-painted camoflage, I’m sorry I missed it when it sold so fast on your ebay site.
Just 3 or 4 years back, you will find it interesting to know that my usual toy soldier show roommate, Bill Skinner (who’s been an avid flea market picker for the last 30 years) brought his collection of right around 30 (yes, 30!) of the Timmee/Processed Plastic deuce and a half trucks, selling them for $10.00 each during room trading, followed by the Sunday morning show. As you can imagine, they went like hotcakes. It’s where I picked up the six I now own. I now wish, of course, that I had gotton a few more.
I saw that John Stengel Jr’s Flourescent red truck and Timmee Russians finally sold, a while back the buyer was showing off pictures on Face Book. It lasted all the way to the West Virginia show.
The long wait time might have had something to do with the fact that he wanted $500.00 for the truck & figures together — at least that’s the price he quoted me when I innocently asked what his price for the set was at the Columbus, Ohio toy soldier show last October.
And speaking of Mr. Stengel, Ed: Do either you or Mike Kutnick know if John Jr. is going to be in attendance at the Chicago Toy Soldier Show next month? I can’t imagine him not coming, but his name still doesn’t appear on the show website’s list of confirmed dealers. I’ve tried calling him directly, but neither phone number I have for him works any longer. I even reached out to Bill Nevins for assistance, but Bill says he’s having difficulty himself making contact.
When I last spoke to John directly (last April at the Midwest Toy Soldier Show in Indiana), he said he was going to Chicago, and expected to have his marching Confederates ready to sell there.
Regardless of whether the Confederates are ready or not, I would still enjoy seeing him. Has anybody heard anything about him at all?
I have no contact with him, but I expect him to show up. I don’t think he has the same enthusiasm for the hobby as his father. As of yesterday Mike and I weren’t on the list either and you know we’ll be there despite the arduous drive . A journey of 15 miles starts with the first depression of the gas pedal.
The long wait-time for selling that set might have have had something to do the $500.00 price he wanted for the set of truck & figures together — at least that was the price he quoted me at the Columbus Toy Soldier Show last October, when I innocently inquired how much he was asking. I actually thought the truck and the figures together all looked pretty neat in that matching burnt-orange color.
And Ed, speaking of Mr. Stengel: Have either you or Mike Kutnick heard if John Jr. is going to be attending The Chicago Toy Soldier Show next month? I assumed he was, and can’t imagine him not doing do. But his name still doesn’t appear on the TCTSS website as a confirmed dealer. I tried calling to ask him directly, but neither phone number I had for him works any longer. I even reached out to Bill Nevins, a longtime family friend of both father and son, but Bill is also having some difficulty making contact.
The last time I myself had any contact with John was in April at The Midwest Toy Soldier Show in Indiana. At that time, he seemed to take it for granted he would be in Chicago, and said he expected to have his new Confederate marching set available for sale there.
Regardless of whether he does or does not have his Confederates ready, I was still looking forward to seeing him, and will be quite surprised if he doesn’t make it this year, despite the fact that I know he’s got a few other business ventures going beyond toy soldiers.
Don,
I’m really hoping he’s going to be at Chicago as my brother and I always enjoy catching up with him at Chicago and Indiana. New Action Castings figures would be nice but certainly not necessary. This show is already going to be missing Nick and Deanna as well as Steve Weston. John not being there would be a major bummer. Just my thoughts..
I have no contact with him, but I expect him to show up. I don’t think he has the same enthusiasm for the hobby as his father. As of yesterday Mike and I weren’t on the list either and you know we’ll be there despite the arduous drive . A journey of 15 miles starts with the first depression of the gas pedal.
Maybe I’m worrying needlessly. Yes, I hadn’t noticed you and Mike weren’t on the confirmed dealer list either — probably because I just assumed you both would be there so I wasn’t searching for your names among the 125+ dealer names that the show website listed.
As to your other observation about John Jr. not having quite as much interest in the hobby as his father, that would surprise me. I always saw both of them together at the shows, and when talking to John Jr. I always found him to be very knowledgeable and talkative about the hobby. Once, at the Michigan Show, John Jr. acquired a boxed 70mm Atlantic Outlaw Set with the hanging man figure from Glen Smith. I wanted to buy it from John Jr. in turn, but he wouldn’t sell it at any price, saying he wanted to keep it for his own personal collection. But there nevertheless might be some truth in what you surmise.
I think it would be difficult for anyone to have as much enthusiasm as John Sr. . Sr was always shopping for figures and always talking toy soldiers, I didn’t mean to imply that John Jr wasn’t interested, just not as enthusiatic, of course this is my opinion and should in now way be construed as fact.
If indian is solid plastic, not swoppet, then it’s italian production. Noname or small brand.
Copie of old rubber ISAS indian.
Thank you very much I got your information to find the Indian to be really of the brand ISAS
The bright red Processed Plastic 2 1/2 ton truck was never sold with the Russian soldiers who were perhaps the last “Tim-Mee” made figures. The Russians soldiers were made (probably after the Marx Russians were spotted at the Toy Fair) and sold in 1965/66 after Processed Plastic had bought out Tim-Mee (took over the summer of 1964 but for tax purposes Jan. 1 1965 officially). With the anti Vietnam War views military toys took a nose dive in sales in the late 1960s. In the 1970s Processed Plastic made the exTim-Mee Jeep in red and white and sold it as a civilian vehicle and included it in header card bagged sets with their civilian family “People”. The 2 1/2 truck was made in non military colors as well including the bright red (to attract the attention of small children) and sold as a bin toy with other vehicles 6-10 years after the last time the Russian soldiers were sold.
According to the latest information I rec’d, Ed and I are on the list of vendors for the Chicago Show. In all probability will be in 5201 [ TSSD’s usual room] and will have six tables at the show, four of TSSD’s usual tables and right next to them the two Steve Weston tables [ they are also unable to make the show this year due to a scheduling conflict]. Hope to see you there! We will be checking in on Wed. Sept. 19th for room sales.