The Key West Citizen Newspaper, June 22, 1953, Page 12

THE KEY WEST CITIZEN ° ‘=| os | Toy Collecting | Page 12 Monday, June 22, 1953 | tary type toys sree he aan about Hobb Kee s Ball) — barrage rbeegpie se me Pot y P ‘ up copies for his comprehensive | maker, he says, were incredibly vac ae ae aes In Contact With and growing scrap book. : | intricate and did astonishing things. to children’s ingenuity and con- People write and ask him how! He sees a growing understanding | structive imagination. People In U.S. old toys can be repaired. They ask of the link between children’s toys! This is just one facet of Frank how they can replace riders, driv-| and history, toys that reflect an Ball’s fascinating hobby. i By “JOHN B. KNOX ers and ladders which have disap- | age, an environment and even} “After 48 years in the utility o peared from long-treasured toys. _ | Personalities, business,” he says, “I don’t know For Hal Boyle In his work shop, he makes mi-|" He thinks that in general, mili-|what I'd have done without it.” CAMBRIDGE, Mass. (@—Francis | nor adjustments on his own toys, | . L, Ball, retired president of a but no major repairs, Patching,! ‘oup of utilities companies, is welding, adding a replacement hecine more fun with toys at 70 part, or repainting, he says de- MILKING CHAMPION GETS REFILL than when he was a youngster. | stroys collector-value. An enthus- He’s quite sure that nobody, “ex- collector will use a magni- @ept maybe a few hard characters, fying lens to detect such tamper- @ver quite outgrows his childhood.” ; ng. Ball’s toy-collecting hobby keeps| Friends want him to write a book him a busy man and has brought | about old toys. But time presses him into contact with people all | So hard on his heels Ball says he | over the country, It begen many has no time for that. years ago when he started collect-| All in all, the hobby has added ing children’s toy banks. }so much enj ent to his life that During his business career Ball | Frank Ball says, “The truth is that had observed that men, “whose on- | it has been much more successful ly interest was business, folded up | than I ever thought was possible.” and didn’t last long after they re-| What kinds of toys interest him tired.” | and drag him to antique shows and By the time he reached retire- | shops and into correspondence with ment age himself, five years ago, | folks who have found old play- his bank collection had broadened things in their attics? into general toy collecting. He be-| For one thing: the beautifully gan swapping and trading with |hand made toys of the era before other collectors all over the coun-|mass production, some carved try. |4rom wood, exquisitely made dolls, Everybody, it seems, is interest-'old diamond-stacked locomotives, ed in toys, either childhood mem-/the first in trains-“crude but in- ories or because of children in the | teresting.” family. | He has gathered toys of later Ball looked into the subjects of |times: horse-drawn fire engines, toys and toy making and found far|cannon, street cars, mechanical ; too little has been written about! trains, clever playthings in which ear, Mrs. Stella Petkovsek, of Little Falls, the subject. He extracted from the toymakers built in clockworks | See Cal hone toc ecitathaaiknad GeO at the libraries data about articles pub-| they bought from the clock makers| New York State annual Dairyland Festival in Watertown, N. ¥. Mrs. lished in antique periodicals. He|of New Haven, Conn. 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