Louis Marx and Company was an American toy manufacturer in business from 1919 to 1980. They made many types of toys including tin toys, toy soldiers, toy guns, action figures, dolls, toy cars and model trains. Some of their notable toys are Rock'em Sock'em Robots, Big Wheel tricycles, Disney branded dollhouses and playsets based on TV shows like Gunsmoke. Its products were often imprinted with the slogan "One of the many Marx toys, have you all of them?"
Louis Marx and Company
A child on a Big Wheel in 1973 (Rogers Park, Chicago)
A 1930 Marx ad for a No. 100 Doughboy Tank
An O Gauge Marx lithographed train set made in the late 1940s to early 1950s
A toy soldier is a miniature figurine that represents a soldier. The term applies to depictions of uniformed military personnel from all eras, and includes knights, cowboys, American Indians, pirates, samurai, and other subjects that involve combat-related themes. Toy soldiers vary from simple playthings to highly realistic and detailed models. The latter are of more recent development and are sometimes called model figures to distinguish them from traditional toy soldiers. Larger scale toys such as dolls and action figures may come in military uniforms, but they are not generally considered toy soldiers.
54 mm (1:32 scale) toy soldiers by Imperial Productions of New Zealand
Vintage plastic Trojan War figure by Herald
World War I-era toy soldiers
Painted and unpainted American Civil War-era plastic figures by Accurate