New Show Date Added!
Blue Dog Promotions is proud to announce an additional toy show date. Our next and new date is September 29th. Our fall show!
With more than a year as the new promoters of the Greater Boston Antique & Collectible Toy Show, we have been listening. Our dealers and patrons alike have asked for more shows.
This will be a limited space venue featuring the grand ballroom of the Dedham Holiday Inn, our home for 30 years. Yes, we will still have our traditional holiday show on December 8th and another Cabin Fever show next spring.
Dealers, you can now download the September show contract at any time. Our mailing of the contract will take place in the first few weeks of August.
Admission
General Admission: 9am to 3pm - $7.00 (save $2.00 after 12:00)
Discount Coupons available online here or join our mailing list
Early admission at 7:00 AM - ($25)
Children 12 and under are FREE
Dedham Holiday Inn
55 Ariadne Rd, Dedham MA
A Boston Tradition for 30 Years!
The Greater Boston Antique & Collectible Toy Show recaptures your youth with over a hundred years of nostalgia on display. From the 1880's to the 1980's; from early cast iron to fine German tinplate. This important show represents nearly 100 tables of available childhood treasures.
The Greater Boston Antique & Collectible Toy Show is the place to find these and many more, such as model kits, action figures, G. I. Joes, Barbies, Tonka, Buddy-L, and tin litho from Chein to Marx. As you can imagine, all these toys together on display make a truly beautiful sight. The show fills both ballrooms at the Dedham Holiday Inn. Some enthusiasts even make a day of it; the hotel offers a breakfast in their restaurant. There are chairs between the two rooms to take a break…and there's always plenty to discover even the second or third time around.
Antique & Collectible Toys
Antique toys are generally considered to be those made around WWII or earlier, at least fifty years ago. These would be the very old cast iron toy fire wagons and trucks, painted, wooden, pull toys, Lincoln Logs, Erector sets, some dolls, some toy soldiers, Tinker Toys, pressed steel vehicles, early American plastic, old board games, some early toy guns and comic characters.
Collectible toys are all antique toys, of course, along with those made within the last fifty years that have withstood the test of time and piqued the imagination and interest of toy lovers and collectors. A toy from our own childhood that evokes happy memories is collectible! A die-cast of our dream car, or our own car, or Dad's car is collectible!
