superdad3
master brummie
Came across this on ebay and couldn't resist posting! Advert from 1918.
Highgate Park Works was situated in Alcester Street but cannot trace location or much information about the factory. Josiah Isaacs must have had some success as he took out patents in the USA and Australia.
This is part of the US patent and illustration:
UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE. JOSIAHISAACS, OF BIRMINGHAM, ENGLAND. FIGURE TOY. 1276,224. Specification of Letters Patent. Patented Aug. 20, 1918. Application filed December 23, 1916. Serial No. 138,671. To all whom it may concern: Be it known that I, JoSIAH. IsAACs, a sub ject of the Kingdom of Great Britian, re siding at Highgate Park Works, Alcester 5 street, Birmingham, in the county of War wick, England, manufacturer, have invent ed a certain new or Improved Figure Toy, of which the following is a specification. 10 5 20 25 30 This invention comprises a toy, compris ing or involving a representation of an ani mal, human figure, or the like, having its base or lower part of such form that it is adapted to stand in a vertical or substan tially vertical position, and in which the body or a part thereof is of a springy char acter adapted to contract and expand verti or longitudinally of the body.
This is the index to the Australian patent of 1915.
Cannot trace any more information about the Works but must have had quite an output. Mind you the faces on the toys are not very atrtractive!
Highgate Park Works was situated in Alcester Street but cannot trace location or much information about the factory. Josiah Isaacs must have had some success as he took out patents in the USA and Australia.
This is part of the US patent and illustration:
UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE. JOSIAHISAACS, OF BIRMINGHAM, ENGLAND. FIGURE TOY. 1276,224. Specification of Letters Patent. Patented Aug. 20, 1918. Application filed December 23, 1916. Serial No. 138,671. To all whom it may concern: Be it known that I, JoSIAH. IsAACs, a sub ject of the Kingdom of Great Britian, re siding at Highgate Park Works, Alcester 5 street, Birmingham, in the county of War wick, England, manufacturer, have invent ed a certain new or Improved Figure Toy, of which the following is a specification. 10 5 20 25 30 This invention comprises a toy, compris ing or involving a representation of an ani mal, human figure, or the like, having its base or lower part of such form that it is adapted to stand in a vertical or substan tially vertical position, and in which the body or a part thereof is of a springy char acter adapted to contract and expand verti or longitudinally of the body.
This is the index to the Australian patent of 1915.
Cannot trace any more information about the Works but must have had quite an output. Mind you the faces on the toys are not very atrtractive!
