Erector Set
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Erector Set was a brand of metal toy construction sets which were patented by Alfred Carlton Gilbert and first sold by his company, the Mysto Manufacturing Company of New Haven, Connecticut, in 1913.
Print advertisement for Erector Set, circa 1922
An early Erector set
Some components of a modern Erector Set
Exhibit in the Museum of the City of New York
A. C. Gilbert Company
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The A. C. Gilbert Company was an American toy company, once one of the largest in the world. Gilbert originated the Erector Set, a construction toy similar to Meccano, and made chemistry sets, microsc
Erector Set
…Gilbert and first sold by his company, the Mysto Manufacturing Company of New Haven, Connecticut, in 1913. In 1916, the company was reorganized as the A. C. Gilbert Company. The brand continued its independent existence under various corporate ownerships until 1990, when Meccano bought the Erector brand and consolidated…
A 1940s Gilbert chemistry set.
A.C. Gilbert ad in The Saturday Evening Post in 1920.