Long time ago......
Everything started in Amsterdam a 30 april , 18 years ago. Walking in a fleamarket without looking for something special . When Sophie told me " i can't understand that you dont find great to be here , so many old and unexpected stuffs , why did you not start a collection ?" . Like a game at this time i asked the price of 2 littles toys , very funny ones , both of them with great colors , and a very funny white knob. by winding it the 2 babies started to move . The price was very cheap ( around a quarter each) and i decided to buy them.
Then we found one more and one more and one more , then we met other collectors and we found 5 more and 5 more and now we are sharing the space at home with our 4000 fabulous, beautiful , fantastic, funny , loveable littles friends.
The White knob wind-ups
We collect now all wind-ups with a knob. not only the white one's. We didn't collect the key wind-ups even if we find those also cute. They are two reasons.
First not enough place at home . we are sure that if you are collecting something you know the feeling.
Second one, most of the time the WKW's are small . more they are small , more they are cute .
We didn't neither collect the color's variations of the wkw's , as many collectors does. some of the wind-ups that you will discover on the site have more than 10 color's variations .
They are not yet many references concerning wkw's and the wkw's collectors. We know one book and some articles in toys collectors magazines.
After 2 years work , we finally have now our entire collection on the web . We hope that this will help actual collector to dream .
We didn't know if we are many in the world to collect thoses littles toys. So if you collect those please contact us
We hope that you will enjoy the visit .
Maurice and Sophie .