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Vintage Fisher-Price "Chatter" toy phone from 1961
SKU: SP-2912-20Vintage Fisher-Price "Chatter" toy phone from 1961.
- Manufacturer: Fisher-Price
- Date of manufacture: 1961
Description
This Chatter Phone was for Fisher-Price their best-selling product for a large part of the 1960s and '70s. This specimen comes from 1961 and is made of sturdy hard plastic.
With this smiling phone, toddlers learned about numbers and colors. Nice old Fisher Price phone with turntable and eyes that blink when you push it forward.
The Fisher-Price phone has a dial with the numbers 0 to 9, rotating eyes, smiling mouth and a funny nose.
Since he appeared in the movie "Toy Story 3", this toy phone has become a true collector's item.
This toy phone is in an original vintage condition with various traces of use and wear.
Condition
This 1961 toy telephone is in an original vintage condition with various traces of use and age-related traces of wear. Sticker under turntable is loose. Pictures are part of the description.
Size
- Height: 9 cm.
- Length: 16 cm.
- Width: 18 cm.
Fisher-Price is an American company that produces educational toys for children and infants, headquartered in East Aurora, New York.
Founded in 1930 by Herman Fisher, Irving Price, Price's illustrator-artist wife Margaret Evans Price, and Helen Schelle, the name Fisher-Price was established by combining two of the three names. Fisher worked previously in manufacturing, selling and advertising games for a company in Churchville, New York. Price had retired from a major variety chain store, and Helen Schelle previously operated Penny Walker Toy Shop in Binghamton, New York. Fisher-Price’s fundamental toy-making principles centered on intrinsic play value, ingenuity, strong construction, good value for the money, and action. Early toys were made of heavy steel parts and ponderosa pine, which resisted splintering and held up well to heavy use. The details and charm were added with colorful lithographic labels. Mrs. Price was the first Art Director and designed push-pull toys for the opening line, based on characters from her children's books.
In 1931, three of the four founders took 16 of their wooden toys to the American International Toy Fair in New York City and they quickly became a success. The first Fisher-Price toy ever sold was "Dr. Doodle" in 1931. (The same toy, in excellent condition, would be worth a considerable amount in today's collectibles market.) In the early 1950s, Fisher-Price identified plastic as a material that could help the company incorporate longer-lasting decorations and brighter colors into its toys. "Buzzy Bee" was the first Fisher-Price toy to make use of plastic. By the end of the 1950s, Fisher-Price manufactured 39 toys incorporating plastics.
During the 1960s, the Play Family (later known as Little People) product line was introduced and soon overtook the popularity of earlier toys. Herman Fisher retired at the age of 71 in 1969 and the Quaker Oats Company bought Fisher-Price the same year.
In 1991, Fisher-Price regained its independence from The Quaker Oats Company and became a publicly traded company. Two years later, in November 1993, Fisher-Price became a wholly owned subsidiary of Mattel. A new management group set the company’s focus on basic, infant and preschool products and began expansion into international markets. By 1997, Mattel decided to market all of its preschool products under the Fisher-Price name.
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Country of origin
USA - United States of America
Kind of object
toy Phone
Theme
Play - toys
Category
Vintage toys
Color
White - Orange/red - blue - multi-colored
Author(s)
Herman Fisher, Helen Schelle, Irving Price, Margaret Evans Price
Publisher
Fisher-price Toys, East Aurora, New York
Manufacturer
Fisher-Price toys
Brand
Fisher-Price
Material
Plastic - paper
Particularities
Makes noise and rolls eyes when moved
Era
1961
Quality
Vintage with traces of use, wear and tear
Height
9,00 cm
Lenght
18,00 cm
Width
16,00 cm
Shipping method
Parcel post with track & trace