Ideal toys?

[diggummup]

I haven't been able to post pics for a while.I found this near an old building that was recently torn down and the land was graded. The building used to be some sort of textile sewing company.It's been abandoned for some years now.However this appears to be a piece of a printers plate?maybe? Can't find any history relating this to that building.Is this what it looks like to you?

 

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[jon43]

i would say so with the letters being backward. i have some small ones that i m going to take some ink too and press them on paper. the letters on mine are a lot smaller. one has a old buggy on it. nice find

 

[newtocoinhunting]

Yes, that's the Ideal that your plate refers to, to see some vintage Ideal ads:
http://www.toyadz.com/toyadz/ideal/idealist.html

Some replica Ideal toy packaging:
http://www.toytent.com/TR_Ideal.html

An interesting bit of '60s-70's toy history you found there.

 

[Batch]

In one of my past lives before the Air Force, I worked at a textile sewing company (aka a "sewing factory" if you're from the South). This plate may have been used as part of a "printing" machine to add the IDEAL logo to custom shirts or some other article the toy company purchased. We produced hospital garments and had a number of ways to mark the pockets of basic uniform items with a particular hospital's name...this could be something similar.

That's my story...I'm sticking to it!

Batch