MOUNDSVILLE -When visitors open the door to an unassuming building on a quiet street in Moundsville, they enter into an alternative universe, populated by an amazing array of toys from playtimes past ...

We've talked a lot about the baby-boomer toys of the '50s and '60s. Now it's time to move on to the later adventure action figures, the so-called post-boomer toys that are currently rising in the ...

Through the swinging glass doors of Manhattan’s “21” Club one night last week popped a roly-poly, melon-bald little man with the berry-bright eyes and beneficent smile of St. Nick touching down on a ...

Marx Toys employed more than 2,000 workers at its factories, warehouses and other Erie and Girard facilities at their peak in the 1940s and '50s. From designing to assembling and packaging toys to ...

Louis Marx started his career as an office boy in the toy firm run by Ferdinand Strauss. Marx eventually became a director of the company, but in 1921 he decided to start a company with his brother.

Q: I have a Roy Rogers Ranch Set, Marx No. 3979-3980. Everything is new. It has been opened but never bent into shape and assembled. Is this a common item or scarce piece? What is its value? J.L., ...

The photo is of a World War I “Doughboy Tank”that is in perfect working order, and I also have the original box in mint condition. Any information or appraisal of value would be greatly appreciated.