Don't forget toys originating outside of the USA e.g.:
- Germany's toy Zeppelins
- Switzerland's music boxes
- German made Teddy Bears
- French dolls
- Canadian "Trivial Pursuit" (invented by Canadians as I recall)
- British "Commando" games from World War II
- Czechoslovakia's Rubik's Cube
- Canada's "Howdy Doody" (from TV show)
- England's W. Britain's Toy Soldiers
- England's Dinky toys
- Italy's Topo Gigio - the little mouse from Italy, though he did come over
to visit Ed Sullivan's TV show in the USA.
etc.
(I hope I got the nationalities and spellings correct.)

You may have trouble locating examples of early 20th Century toys. Luckily
may of them can be made from patterns found in books of the period. If you
are really stuck, we have some patterns.

Colin Macgregor Stevens,
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Curator,
Burnaby Village Museum,
Burnaby, BC, CANADA
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