Here is another fine example of what some of the Ted Toys looked like. This almost perfect example made by the Ted Toylers in New Bedford Mass. Many thousands of these toys were made every week and shipped all over the country. I actually live in the city of New Bedford where the Ted Toy company was located, long since gone and I must also add that not a lot of information as of yet is available outside of the Stand Times newspaper archives.
Something personal for me, I would say, to actually bring the local history back to its origins and really understand how and why these incredible pieces of art, were made and played with not only in New Bedford but all over as well. The Ted-Toylers, in my opinion made a very high quality toy in the beginning but towards the end not so much.
So I continue my hunt to bring a small piece of long forgotten history back to a city with a lot of history. Once the whaling capital of the world, New Bedford is but a glimmer of what it once was, We still have a very strong fishing fleet, and often is the worlds top money port in that industry, yet the long forgotten Ted Toy company is but a very vague memory to all but a few who wish to have it live on.
Email me at tedtoycollector@aol.com
