Leon Weiss, an antique toy dealer who grew up on Long Island with his twin brother, vividly remembers buying his first antique toy.

The merchandise has since been imported again by the same toy dealers in direct sales, and Harmony Gold has sublicensed additional material for North American retail distribution.

The carousel emerged as a ride when a toy dealer in France showed wooden horses on a rotating platform moved by human power or horsepower in the beginning of 18th century.

A year later the owner resold it for about twice that sum to Jeffrey Levitt, a British toy dealer who had a store on Madison Avenue.

Mr. Bergin, a toy dealer in Peterborough, N.H., had sold Mr. Wyse many of his most important robots.

She drew 42 Democrats to join 188 Republicans in the majority with an argument that summoned an old "Saturday Night Live" skit about a sleazy toy dealer peddling lethal toys to children.

Even more important to Paul Chambers, the Pittsburgh contractor and toy dealer who bought the item, was its good condition.

Wholesale toy dealer, Sheboygan, Wis.

Mr. Lesser's collection yielded a number of treasures that Mr. Acevedo, a toy dealer for more than 17 years, described as "10's."

Some eight years and scores of toy purchases later, Mr. Levitt left his family's liquor business when it was sold to a Japanese buyer, and became a toy dealer.