Old-fashioned Toy Section Added to our Museum Gift Shop!

We have added an Old Fashioned Toys section in our gift shop. New toys include clay marbles, marble shooter, nine-pins, kazoos, jacks, pick-up-sticks, nine-pins, graces, feather pen quills, doll kits, and looms kits!

Click here for photos of the new (old-fashioned) toys!

Stop by our gift shop and step back in time with an old-fashioned toy!

Cup and Ball Toss Toy

Wikipedia: The main goal of the game is to get the ball into the cup. While the concept is very easy, mastering the game sometimes requires many hours of practice. To play, the player holds the cup by the handle and lets the ball hang freely. The player then tosses the ball upward by jerking the arm holding the toy, attempting to catch the ball in the cup. (Wikipedia)

Hand-Rolled Clay Marbles & Marble Shooters

Wikipedia: A German glassblower invented marble scissors in 1846, a device for making marbles. One version of the game involves drawing a circle in sand, and players will take turns knocking other players’ marbles out of the circle with their own marble. This game is called ringer. (Wikipedia)

Nine-pins

Wikipedia: Nine-pins is a bowling game. European championships are held each year. Over 90,000 members are on teams in Germany, often playing in officially registered Bundeskegelbahn (federal bowling alleys) to be found in almost every sizable town.

Graces

Wikipedia: The Game of Graces was a popular leisure activity for young girls during the early 1800s. First documented during the 1830s, The Game of Graces was considered a proper game benefiting young ladies and, supposedly, tailored to make them more graceful. Graces was hardly ever played by boys, and never played by two boys at the same time, either two girls, or a boy and a girl.

Kazoos

Jacks

Pick-up-sticks

Feather pen quills

Whistles

Doll kits

Looms kits