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Vintage Fisher-Price wooden toy dog named Little Snoopy

SKU: SP-3341-21

Vintage Fisher-Price wooden toy dog named Little Snoopy.

  • Manufacturer: Fisher-Price toys
  • Manufacturing date: 1968

Description
The original wooden Fisher-Price dog in beautiful used vintage condition. This dog is called Little Snoopy. The dog or small puppy wobbles on four orange wheels.

Marked at the back with:
Made in the U.S.A
Fisher-Price Toys
East Auora N.Y.
U.S. Pat. No. 3,407,531
Patended Canada 1968

A nice item to add to your collection. Or as decoration for the children's or baby room!

Condition
This classic piece of Fisher-Price toy is in a good vintage condition with traces of use and age-related traces of wear. Pictures are part of the description.

Size

  • Height: 12 cm. - 16 cm. (with tail)
  • Length: 18 cm.
  • Width: 12 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 centred 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 colourful 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 colours 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
Wooden toy dog

Theme
Fisher-Price - toy - dog - puppy

Category
Vintage toys

Color
Brown - white - orange

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
Wood - paper - plastic

Particularities
Original wooden version from 1968

Era
1968

Quality
Good vintage condition with traces of use

Height
12,00 cm - 16,00 cm (with tail)

Lenght
18,00 cm

Width
12,00 cm

Shipping method
Parcel post with track & trace

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