[ Photographs ] ( Toys) Photograph Catalogue of tin Toys Manufactured by Hull & Stafford, Clinton, Conn. Depot and Sample Room R. Foulds, 39 John Street, New York. Photographically- illustrated trade catalogue comprising 15 photographs of display

[ Photographs ] ( Toys) Photograph Catalogue of tin Toys Manufactured by Hull & Stafford, Clinton, Conn. Depot and Sample Room R. Foulds, 39 John Street, New York. Photographically- illustrated trade catalogue comprising 15 photographs of display shelves of tin toys, including equestrian pull toys, hoop and balancing toys, rocking horses, hose reel carriage, horse drawn wagons, floor trains, and circus wagons and decorative tin containers and miniature toleware. Albumen prints, 5x 7.25inches, all but one pair mounted on recto only, with period numerical pencil notations on the photographs (probably order numbers). Oblong 8vo, gilt printed cloth, torn at hinges, worn at edges. 1870s E3000-5000 The only known copy of the earliest photographically illustrated toy catalogue formerly in the collection of Louis Hertz, the premiere American toy collector of the 1950s-1960s. The catalog is illustrated in Hertz book riding The Tinplate Pails (Penn-Craft, 1944, pp. E33-34 It is an important document of the early years of American toy manufacturing whose designs strongly reflect folk art roots. Hull and Stafford was established as Hull and Wright, about 1860, and was located in Clinton, Connecticut from 1866-1880s. Many of the toys in the catalogue are illustrated in American Antique Toys 1830-1900 ( Abrams: New York, 1980