1953 - Space Helmet By Arant (revised)

[Joe K.]

See:

http://cgi.ebay.com/1958-Arant-Space-Helme...1QQcmdZViewItem

I can't imagine very many of these survived very long, which might account for my inability to find a published photo of one in any of my books or catalogs.

[Fineas J. Whoopie]

This is one to keep an eye out for Joe. I can't help thinking that Mark Bergin would have been a good candidate for having one of these on his web site at one time or another.

[Joe K.]

Here's a 1955 Toytime catalog from Schuster's that moves the date back three years:

http://cgi.ebay.com/SCHUSTERS-DEPT-STORES-...1QQcmdZViewItem

The dated cover:

http://www267.pair.com/punky/schusters.JPG

This page, specifically:

http://www267.pair.com/punky/schusters7.JPG

As a result, I've revised the heading for this thread accordingly.

[Fineas J. Whoopie]

Here's a 1955 Toytime catalog from Schuster's that moves the date back three years:

http://cgi.ebay.com/SCHUSTERS-DEPT-STORES-...1QQcmdZViewItem

The dated cover:

This page, specifically:

As a result, I've revised the heading for this thread accordingly.

WOW Joe! good eye!!

[Joe K.]

This March 1953 Toy Fair issue of Playthings moves the date back to 1953:

This thread started out with a 1958 sighting. This 1953 Playthings sighting shows that this helmet had a good, long production run.

The recently ended listing:

https://www.ebay.com/itm/WALT-DISNEY-PRODUCTIONS-PLAYTHINGS-NATIONAL-MAGAZINE-OF-THE-TOY-TRADE-MARCH-1953-/113121406776?_sop=10&_pgn=2&hash=item1a568faf38%3Ag%3AffYAAOSwTntbOTRs&_sacat=0&_nkw=playthings+magazine&_from=R40&LH_Complete=1&rt=nc&nma=true&si=WkS%2Bh%2FVZu5X0JhSL%2FD4TZG%2FFwOM%3D&orig_cvip=true&_trksid=p2047675.l2557