Early Kohnstam/Moko & Lesney Advertising

[johnboy]

John,
Those are quite historic and very interesting! They help tell some of the story about the early days of Moko/Lesney and how the market/sales were started.
Can you share more about Kohnstam? Was it a retailer/wholesaler, etc.? I'm assuming that we should be thankful to them for helping advertise Matchbox toys during their infancy............

Thanks for sharing -- very cool!

Bill

Follow-up: I found this on the internet about Kohnstam (courtesy of Dream-Tintoys; blue-gold-angel.com (a nice site that I had not seen before!)
Bill

Thanks for that Bill, I use Dream-Tintoys now and again, it's a great reference site packed with excellent photos.

[nickjones]

Thanks for posting these John. This ad is from Eisenman's. Back in the late 1960's my Mum was their cleaner, It was a key job, ie we had keys to the building and it was up to us to see that the cleaning was done every night, There was one floor for offices and two floors and the basement completely given over for the display of toys. It was every child's dream. There must have been 50 different battery operated robots and the same amount of tinplate roller coaster games, There were no die cast but there were hundreds of the earliest GI Joe blistercards. many of which found their way home with me!. I can remember starting up all of the robots and blowing them away with a Johnny seven (one man army) machine gun. memories memories!.

[motorman]

Thanks for posting these John. This ad is from Eisenman's. Back in the late 1960's my Mum was their cleaner, It was a key job, ie we had keys to the building and it was up to us to see that the cleaning was done every night, There was one floor for offices and two floors and the basement completely given over for the display of toys. It was every child's dream. There must have been 50 different battery operated robots and the same amount of tinplate roller coaster games, There were no die cast but there were hundreds of the earliest GI Joe blistercards. many of which found their way home with me!. I can remember starting up all of the robots and blowing them away with a Johnny seven (one man army) machine gun. memories memories!.

Mmmmmn breaking and entering!!!!