{"id":4200,"date":"2010-12-24T13:10:54","date_gmt":"2010-12-24T18:10:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/andrewbaseman.com\/blog\/?p=4200"},"modified":"2010-12-24T13:12:37","modified_gmt":"2010-12-24T18:12:37","slug":"toys-for-the-holidays","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/?p=4200","title":{"rendered":"Toys for the holidays"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Well, the votes are in and the absolute favorite item featured in The New York Times article from last week was the <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/?p=72\">Cold painted cast lead dog figure, c.1930<\/a>. I received numerous comments and emails on this piece, including &#8220;The dog is my favorite, it is almost impossibly poignant&#8221;, &#8220;I especially liked the little dog with the &#8216;prosthetic&#8217; leg&#8221; and\u00a0&#8220;That little dog you have is so much better than any mint-in-the-box action figure or something like that&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>With that in mind and with this being the holiday season, I am including some other toys with inventive repairs that I hope you will enjoy seeing again. Please click on the title to see the original post with information and additional photos.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/?p=76\">Cast iron horse drawn ladder wagon, c.1900<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_19892.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"IMG_1989\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_19892.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"399\" height=\"335\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/?p=1798\">German doll head pen wiper, c.1900<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_36381.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"IMG_3638\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_36381.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/?p=258\">Toy cast iron cannon, c.1880<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_1867_22.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-4201\" title=\"IMG_1867_2\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_1867_22.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"249\" srcset=\"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_1867_22.jpg 400w, http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_1867_22-300x186.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/?p=1189\">Googly doll door stop, c.1930<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_32491.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-4211\" title=\"IMG_3249\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_32491.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"549\" srcset=\"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_32491.jpg 400w, http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_32491-218x300.jpg 218w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/?p=1153\">Staffordshire child&#8217;s mug, c.1840<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_21152.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-4203\" title=\"IMG_2115\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_21152.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"337\" srcset=\"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_21152.jpg 400w, http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_21152-300x252.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Happy Holidays and I look forward to sharing more examples from my collection with you in 2011!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well, the votes are in and the absolute favorite item featured in The New York Times article from last week was the Cold painted cast lead dog figure, c.1930. I received numerous comments and emails on this piece, including &#8220;The dog is my favorite, it is almost impossibly poignant&#8221;, &#8220;I especially liked the little dog [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[59],"tags":[62,123],"class_list":["post-4200","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-toy","tag-american","tag-iron"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4200","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4200"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4200\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4236,"href":"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4200\/revisions\/4236"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4200"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4200"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4200"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}