Robert Lesser Robot Collection Auction Ends Tomorrow
Here’s your chance to own part of one of the most amazing tin toy robot collections in the US. The Lesser collection has hit the auction block, and the last of the bids are due tomorrow. Back in 2000, I got a chance to see the Lesser robots at the Brooklyn Museum of Art, and it rocked my world. It was the first look I ever got at an original Mr. Atomic, Radicon Robot, Horikawa Space Station… < sigh >
Now everything must go. From a boxed Lilliput Robot, the first mass marketed robot toy, to Hook Robot and a Tremendous Mike .
Former bibliographer, nuclear researcher, electric sign salesman, author and playwright, Lesser says he decided to part with his collection because he had acquired all the great robots and space toys he had sought. “If you’re a tiger hunter in Kenya and you’ve shot all the tigers, you know what? You’re not a tiger hunter anymore.”
Link to the auction, and collection information. (via Alphadrome)
Link to the auction, and collection information. (via Alphadrome)
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