What is the earliest toy you can remember having?

[birlinn]

Apart from my teddy bear, which I still have, mine was a kite, in about 1943. It must have been left over from pre-war Japanese stock, as it was made of very fine grained timber, bamboo and silk.
It looked a bit like a plane, with a large wing and smaller tailplane. The fuselage was triangular, and folded flat with tiny brass hinges. Wings, tailplane, and parts of the fuselage were covered in very fine pale blue silk, and it had RAF roundels. Wingtips were semi-circular, in bamboo.
Got eventually wrecked of course; wish I still had it.

[Jim Bow]

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I had one of these in light blue. The steering wheel actually worked. I must have been 7 or 8.
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[Peerie Maa]

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A Fairy Tricycle.

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[StevenBauer]

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When we were really little we’d drive to Media, Pa. From North Jersey for Christmas at my uncle’s. This was the toy one of those years.

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https://youtu.be/puYB4a2mcsA

Note the “battery powered” on the ad? Well, it should have said: batteries not included. It was a sad morning on Dec 25th as there was not a battery to be found at my uncle’s house that year.

[Mrleft88]

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Blocks. I had lots of blocks. Some were my father's blocks from when he was a kid, that my grandfather made. Some were ones that my father made. ll different sizes. Arches, Triangles, many rectangles, some pieces of dowel, and closet pole. I had probably a hundred or more blocks. There were some fancy Maple blocks that my grandparents brought back from Sweden, or Norway, and they were fun, but the little 3"-4"X2"X3/4" blocks made of Pine, some of which had store fronts, or fire stations drawn on the surface (My father was an exceptional illustrator, even as a young child) were my favorites.

[Chip-skiff]

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A toy shovel. Red.

[John Smith]

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Not sure before tinker toys. I remember some wind up boats, and a wind up roller coaster. Also an inflatable thing we knocked down, and it came back up. First one/ not sure.

[L.W. Baxter]

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they gave me a plastic bag to play with in the crib....

i kid i kid

[StevenBauer]

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Just in case anyone doubts the monumental influence of The Great Garloo note the date on the video - 1961. This was a defining event in my childhood. I was born in March of 1959.

[Todd D]

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I had books that allowed me to visit exotic worlds and gain knowledge. I still have a few (thousand). I also had modelling clay from which I built many things.

[L.W. Baxter]

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A Fairy Tricycle.

nice trike.

i never really had any toys until my older brother was done with them. but here he is giving me a lift.

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[Tom Montgomery]

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My spring horse much like this one. I called him "Rocket."

[ron ll]

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[skuthorp]

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Very basic wooden boat , then a metal pedal car. (Found in grandfather's shed 30 years later, restored and still being used, as is the Hornby wind up train set from about when I was 5).

[John B]

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Jeep pedal car and this, a Triang GeeGee.
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Photo taken 3 days ago, hard to catch when they move so fast.
Rusted and no doubt lead paint of course, the rubber /wood composite head degraded away to about 50 % but no worries.. west system and plastidip to the rescue.