Beach Pails Classic Toys of the Surf and Sand

With their vivid color metal lithography graphics and sentimental images, vintage sand pails recall the golden days of summer in a most enchanting way. From the earliest Victorian examples, produced when seaside vacations were the new leisure-time pursuit, to futuristic 1960s pails emblazoned with outer-space motifs, these childhood playthings of the past now command impressive prices on the collectibles market.This evocative, lavishly illustrated art book captures the beauty of these toys with full-color photographs of beach pails and other sand accountrements including shovels, strainers, sand movers, conveyors, sifters, and more. Informative background text on the best-known tin sand toy manufacturers accompanies page after page of pails illustrated with World War I dirigibles, 1930s and 1940s cowboys, postwar alphabet and nursery rhyme motifs, early Disney characters, and much more. It's a dazzling look at a hot collectible with enormous nostalgic appeal.Carole and Richard Smytheare antique dealers specializing in vintage sand toys. They live in Huntington, New York.Smythe, Carole is the author of 'Beach Pails Classic Toys of the Surf and Sand' with ISBN 9780762412037 and ISBN 0762412038.