Rodney’s Favorite Toy

I have known Ron Sturgeon for around 20 years or so and worked for him about 10 years.

The other day he asked me to pick out my favorite toy to take a picture with for the museum, in a word, impossible. I have a passion for antique toys, I collect, buy and sell them from my home as a hobby, thanks to Ron I took to it like a duck to water, that being said pick my favorite?, it can’t be done there are just to many. I suppose if Ron had asked me to pick one of the most expensive it would make it a little easier, but still a monumental task since their are several that go as high as $25,000.00+. So I walked into Ron’s office surrounded by some of the finest antique toys known to man and took this Atom Jet Racer out of one of the cases. This fabulous tin lithograph toy is 27″ long and features a friction motor and tin driver and was made in Japan in the 1950s by Yonezawa, a famous Japanese toy maker. This example has a scarcity rating of 10 (very rare), this one is excellent and would fetch easily around $3,500.00 + at auction, but I doubt it will see any auction house for many years to come. As far as my favorite? this one will do for today