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Allied Manufacturing Company

Allied Mfg. Co., also known as Allied Products Co. was a Chicago-based novelty and toy manufacturer primarily active during the 1930s. They are known for their "Playstone Funnies" and "Kasting Kits," which allowed children to create their own figurines of famous comic strip characters using molds.

Make A Toy ~1928-1942

The Flyer I have for Make A toy only shows 5 molds. The moulds will have what looks like a hand engraved Make A Toy New York (left), or a Raised Make a Toy Co New York (right) as if it was part of the original mould.

Marks Brothers Toy Company

This is the olny Marks Brothers Mould I have ever seen, it is identified as #17.

Gebr. Schneider 1904-early 1930's

The Schneider molds are some of the cleanest and easiest moulds to pour! They are also the Grandfather of virtually all of the moulds that come from other companies. Schneider moulds will have a clean sharp S with an arrow thru the middle of the S, the catalog number, and L and R on the mould. There are MANY copies of their moulds. if the mould you have is missing the S or the S is not sharp, it is probably a knock off from on of the other companies of the time.

Junior Caster By Rapaport 1930-bef.WWII

Junior Caster appears to be the first of the Rapaport Bros. companies. the Backs of the moulds were typically flat with a lip at the bottom of the mould. Leter the company becarme Home Foundry, mostly using the same moulds, however the backs had ribs. I have seen early Home Foundry moulds stamped with the Junior Caster Circle with a rib going right thru the logo.

Home Foundry Manufacturing Co. ~1935- bef. WWII

The "Home Foundry" name lasted into the early 1950s but was second-billing to "Ever Ready" or "Cast Rite". These later sets were manufactured by the American Craft Mfg., Co. or Rapaport Bros. New moulds were added to the range with a Rapaport catalog claiming there were over 225 different "characters". 

S. Sachs

 S. Sachs started out with a catalog of almost entirely Schneider pattern moulds around 1920. He also offered some of the first known original American Designs including Charlie Chaplin. By 1929 H. Sachs had control of the company and changed the name to Metal Cast Products Co. According to their catalogs their moulds were made of Bronze. Additionally, I am not entirely convinced they were all stamped with the Sachs name.

Ideal (Jdeal) Bleifiguren-Formen

Typically referred to as Ideal or Jdeal. This is the German Company not the American Ideal Toy Company. It is sometimes referred to a Jdeal however this is more a function of the German to english transcription of the German language catalogs where the I in the company name looks like a J in the catalogs. note how "JDEAL" "DGRM" and the model number are present.

When there is insufficient space raound the edge of the mould, it is placed in the body itself.

ACE Toy Mold Co.

Produced Molds thru the Kast-A-Toy label. A 1937 Advertisement showed up to 33 moulds though not sure if all were actually available. The most unique was a sheriffs badge that you placed a No. 2 Safety pin into.

HD

Heinrich Diezemann founded this company in 1909 and by 1910 was in full operation. Diezemann produced a total of 471 figures in 255 molds. His moulds were usually stamped with an HD. Note the HD to the top of the left half of the mould along with the No. 107. This I believe is not an original HD mould as I would expect the HD and number are not crisp. Additionally the Boss is filled rather than threaded.

JL Wright

The Lincoln moulds typically have both the number of the mould and the name of the mould. In this example you can see both the 1301 (the mould number) and Pioneer and Cowboys (name of the mould). Notice also the iron straps affixed to each plate. This mould also says LINCOLN FULL FORM FIGURE CASTER.

NRK

The NRK Plasticor Jr was a small plastic injection molding toy/molding unit sold by by NRK Manufacturing & Engineering Co., that allowed users to melt and inject plastic into molds to make small figures or toys at home or in a hobbyist setting. It came with a heating unit and a set of interchangeable molds for producing plastic items. The unit was heavy-duty for its type and ran on standard household electric current, with adjustable temperature control and clamp-type mold holders. These molds are not able to withstand the temperatures associated with melted metal used in metal moulds.

Marks Bros. ?

Could really use some help identifying this mould. Is that a double M on the back standing for Marks Bros.? or ? if you can identify this mould please add a comment below!