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All about Antique Tours for Buenos Aires and all Argentina with Bob Frassinetti
Tuesday, 23 June 2009
Buby, Die Cast made in Argentina
Topic: Buby, Die Cast, Argentina
Willy Station Wagon
Willy Station Wagon made in Argentina by Kaiser Frazer, this one a toy scale model from the real one, sacle 1;45 Made by Hand and in Resin from original planes of the station wagon. Kaiser Willy Toys made in Argentina. When you purchase an item at the Buenos Aires Toy Museum all profits are invested in the development of the Museum. When buying a toy from our Toy Museum you're not only buying a bit of the History of Argentina, but also contributing to the conservation of vintage and antiques toys, and to furthering the museum's research project on Argentine toy industries and to rescue valuable items for forget and the pass of time. Thank you for helping us to keep on developing this fantastic project! The Buenos Aires, “Toy Museum Team”. For more information :Email: The Buenos Aires Toy Museum, Bob Frassinetti. Press here to go to the Toy Museum :The Buenos Aires Toy Museum, Argentina. Bob Frassinetti
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Posted by bob frassinetti at 1:34 PM
Friday, 19 August 2005
Buby Die Cast. Toy Train
Topic: Buby, Die Cast, Argentina
Rail System 1001. 3 volt engine, run by 2 batteries.Train madE BY Buby in box.

To most world wide Buby die cast collectors, the story of Buby’s scale train is a mystery, for it’s most common that people talk about Buby’s car and truck products. These are always a valuable gem within any die cast collection for their design and top quality.

The story of Buby’s train is truly incredible.

This is what Buby himself told us when we last interviewed him…

“I'll tell you an anecdote just to make my point: When Martinez the Hoz (the economy minister from 1976 -1980) laid down the barrels for imported goods, we had just made an incredible battery train with a license of a German company, Falher, an excellent train, imagine how amazing it was that we manufactured some of the parts for the German company. Such was the quality and beauty of this fabulous product that Buenos Aires Harrods had bought a large amount of our trains. In their toy department we had designed a special table to exhibit the items… Very nicely and well done. So, one day I went to Harrods to see how people reacted and felt about our new product; if they liked it, what they thought about it and so. When I get to the stand, there was a lady admiring the train, when she suddenly turns it upside down and with this terribly disappointing voice she says "oh it's Argentine" and as she finishes to say that she puts the train back on the table; she walks away towards the imported section and finally ends up buying this low quality, very cheap Japanese train that underneath had the inscription "MADE IN JAPAN", she actually paid much more money for that item and left the store really happy. People who thought like her where the most, and quality had nothing to do in their equation as to buy or don't buy an item.”

See Picture Image Gallery of the Buby Train:

Link to Photo Album Buby Train Made in Argentina


It was then when Buby decided to stick to cars and trucks, a market he knew better. As a matter of fact, the train was a true gem, and nowadays is a coveted item by collectors from all over the world, specially because of the limited edition and the only railway model within Buby’s collections.

See Picture Image Gallery for the Buby Catalogue:

Link to Photo Album Buby. The History in Pictures

Read all about Buby, die cast toys made here in Argentina:For more information Press here: Buby and all about the toy die cast.

Interested in Trains, read about them here:Train Travel in Argentina as well as the Patagonia Express Train.



Art and Toy Museum Gallery Flats.


Mi nombre es Roberto Dario Frassinetti, todos mis amigos me llaman, Bob Frassinetti. Y hace muchos tiempo que me dedico al coleccionismo de juguetes y hoy me enorgullezco en presentarte mi nuevo sitio Web en castellano, mi proyecto mas ansiado: El primer museo virtual de juguetes de la Republica Argentina.


Para mas Informacion/ For more information :Email: The Buenos Aires Toy Museum,Bob Frassinetti. Press here to go to the Toy Museum :The Buenos Aires
Toy Museum,Argentina.


Hace tiempo que intento desarrollar este sueno y hoy es una realidad que quiero compartir con vos. Ven, entra y conocelo. Aqui encontraras todo lo que yo pude ir construyendo en mi vida de coleccionista; datos historicos, juguetes inconseguibles, fotos, todo lo que busques sobre juguetes nacionales esta en el Buenos Aires Toy Museum.

Si tienes alguna duda sobre el sitio, quieres informacion sobre algun objeto en particular o simplemente pretendes charlar sobre juguetes con alguien, comunicate conmigo que yo o mi equipo periodistico te responderemos al instante.
Para mejorar la calidad de nuestro incipiente museo nos seria muy util que antes de cerrar nuestra pagina nos dejes algun comentario escrito sobre lo bueno y lo malo que vistes aqui, todo nos ayudar para maximizar este espacio.
Espero que disfrutes conociendo mi museo tanto como yo disfrute en armarlo. Muchas gracias por tu visita, espero que sea solo una mas entre muchas otras. COLECCIONISMO ARGENTINO.
SOSTENIENDO LA CULTURA NACIONAL


En la Argentina se da un hecho que no es comun en el resto del mundo, por lo menos no lo es en los paises culturalmente mas ricos, entre los que se encuentra el nuestro con sus innumerables actividades y manifestaciones artisticas.
Aqui las mejores exposiciones y muestras culturales en cuanto a calidad y cantidad de obras y objetos, e incluso los museos mas famosos, recaen en manos privadas. Los coleccionistas argentinos montan exposiciones y museos que se transforman prontamente en sucesos culturales nacionales, como lo demuestra el Museo de Arte Latinoamericano de Buenos Aires creado por Constantini, donde encontramos obras plasticas y esculturas de los mas renombrados creadores del continente y exposiciones de primer nivel.
Por otra parte, las muestras de los museos y las exposiciones culturales organizadas por el Estado se llevan adelante mediante prestamos temporales de coleccionistas individuales o fundaciones de todo el mundo, por lo cual incluso lo publico depende en este caso de lo privado.
De esta manera, vemos como el aporte privado en el pais es de una ayuda fundamental para mantener la rica historia y la actualidad cultural de la Argentina, que es motivo de prestigio nacional en cualquier lugar del planeta.
La falta de politicas estatales en esta area y el casi inexistente presupuesto cultural del pais hacen imposible que la Secretaria de Cultura y los organismos que de ella dependen puedan adquirir obras y objetos de relevancia, por lo cual se ven obligados a pedir constantemente la colaboracion privada o directamente la donacion de los artistas para asi construir una muestra interesante.
De este modo vemos que, desde el nacimiento del Instituto Di Tella en la decada del 60, los coleccionistas particulares son los que llevan el estandarte cultural en el pais, en unos casos organizando eventos, muestras, exposiciones y hasta museos a traves de los cuales se propagandiza y conserva nuestro patrimonio y en otros prestando sus colecciones para muestras publicas.
Los juguetes, expresiones culturales de una ?poca determinada, no escapan a esto. Aqui la presencia del Estado hoy es absolutamente nula recayendo toda actividad al respecto sobre el coleccionista individual o fundaciones privadas, que generalmente organizan muestras que ayudan a mantener viva nuestra historia.
El Buenos Aires Toy Museum es una manifestacion mas de esta realidad nacional e invita a todo aquel que se vea interesado a participar de el con sus objetos o informacion para elevar asi la calidad de nuestra muestra permanente.




CONSTRUIR UN MUSEO DEL JUGUETE,
UNA TAREA DE TODOS


La muerte de la convertibilidad en la Argentina acarreo una importante posibilidad de inversiones a bajo costo para aquellas personas que quieran invertir dinero en el pais. Esto se da de manera particular en el rubro de la construccion y el reacondicionamiento de viejas estructuras, donde los numeros suelen ser mas provechosos aun para quienes pretendan edificar en Buenos Aires, teniendo en cuenta que el creciente turismo necesita de nuevos lugares tanto de esparcimiento como de alojamiento.
La creciente movida cultural portenia, que esta volviendo a obtener el nivel de los inolvidables 60s, trae como resultado la apertura mes a mes de nuevos centros culturales, bares tematicos y otros espacios ligados al arte y a la cultura en general. El nuevo Museo de Arte Latinoamericano de la Recoleta es un ejemplo claro sobre los beneficios, cultural y economicamente hablando, de la apertura de dichos recintos. Lo importante es saber que necesita Buenos Aires hoy, que reclama su gente y el turismo a la hora de entretenerse y disfrutar.
Una falta importante en la ciudad es la de un Museo de Juguetes. Un Museo que logre conservar esta parte del patrimonio historico y cultural del pais de la que nadie se hace cargo y que sirva ademas como lugar de exposicion permanente para jovenes y adultos, un espacio donde los jovenes vayan a ver los antiguos juguetes con los que sus padres se divertian cuando no habia Internet ni computadoras y los adultos recuerden con algo de nostalgia los instrumentos de placer que tanto disfrutaban cuando eran chicos. Por otra parte, se convertiria rapidamente en un lugar ideal para el amplio espectro de coleccionistas que estan llegando al pais en busqueda de piezas a bajo costo.
Estos hechos objetivos hacen del museo no solo un proyecto posible sino una urgente necesidad, ademas de una gran posibilidad comercial, no solo por la construccion a precios bajos de un inmueble en pleno Buenos Aires, donde hoy dia el metro cuadrado construido no supera los 1500 pesos, sino porque garantiza una visita diaria de una gran cantidad de personas ya que seria una hermosa novedad en la ciudad, no tendria competencia, y es hoy un lugar buscado tanto por jovenes y adultos argentinos como por los coleccionistas. Ademas, la posibilidad de instalar un bar tematico en su interior y el alquiler de salas para otras exposiciones no harian mas que revalorizar la idea del proyecto.

Hoy Buenos Aires ofrece, entre otras cosas, esta enorme posibilidad, donde tanto el inversor como la propia ciudad se verian beneficiadas ampliamente.


PROPIEDADES


Durante la decada de gobierno de Carlos Saul Menem (1989-1999) y hasta la crisis economica de finales del 2001, Buenos Aires fue una de las ciudades mas caras del mundo, la equiparacion monetaria de un peso = un dolar conocida como “convertibilidad” hizo subir ostensiblemente el precio de las propiedades inmuebles equilibrandolas a la moneda norteamericana. Por esta causa, comprar propiedades en la Argentina –ya sea departamentos, terrenos, casas, etc.- era una inversion costosa, comparable con la compra de un inmueble en las ciudades mas desarrolladas del mundo.
Hoy, producto de la devaluacion, los precios de los inmuebles sufrieron solo durante el 2002 una caida promedio del 52 % del valor que poseian antes del cataclismo economico. Este descenso se produjo en todo tipo de propiedades, sin importar el lugar ni el tipo de la misma. Hoy, ya entrados en el 2003, los inmuebles de las zonas mas elegantes y exclusivas de la Ciudad de Buenos Aires estan recuperando parte de su antiguo valor. Solo durante los dos primeros meses de 2002, en los barrios de Belgrano, Palermo, Puerto Madero, Recoleta y Caballito Norte se observo un alza de un 15% en los importes inmobiliarios, esto hace de las zonas en cuestion una excelente oportunidad para todos aquellos que deseen adquirir propiedades en el pais, principalmente para los extranjeros, que tendrian un bajo costo de inversion debido a la devaluacion y ademas comprarian en un momento donde los precios, aunque se encuentran en alza, aun no son tan elevados, por lo que en poco tiempo el valor de los mismos sera mayor.
Esto ya fue considerado por una amplia gama de turistas que han adquirido propiedades en dichas zonas durante los ultimos meses, muchos de ellos han utilizado la figura del Fideicomiso Inmobiliario, ya conocido en las naciones desarrolladas pero toda una novedad en la Argentina. Esta clase de Fideicomiso esta pensada para atraer un fondo de inversores donde todos aquellos que pertenecen a el poseen grandes ventajas; a la ya nombrada causada por el cambio monetario, se le agregan por un lado el costo en pesos del mantenimiento de las propiedades, que representa un minimo porcentaje de la inversion total, y por otro una figura juridica que actua como protectora del patrimonio personal del inversor y lo defiende ante cualquier incontingencia economico-politica que pueda ocurrir en el pais.
Hoy por hoy, la Argentina vuelve a ser, por lo menos en lo que respecta a cuestiones inmobiliarias, un buen lugar para invertir.
El Buenos Aires Toy Museum puede recomendarle zonas donde comercialmente resulta mas potable una inversion inmobiliaria y entablar contactos al respecto en su nombre. Ante cualquier duda consultenos via mail y le responderemos enseguida.

Para mas Informacion/ For more information :Email: The Buenos Aires Toy Museum,Bob Frassinetti. Press here to go to the Toy Museum :The Buenos Aires
Toy Museum,Argentina.



Link to Photo Album Bob Frassinetti

Interested in buying antiques and collectibles from Buenos Aires or for that matter any other item that I have mentioned in any article you have found on this my web site, you can buy Toys from my museum and threw eBay, threw the Toy Museum on eBay press here; Toy Museum on eBay and threw The Buenos Aires ArtDealer, press here; Art Dealer on eBay From Art to Antiques. Or contact me direct. For more information :Email Bob Frassinetti. Press here to go to The Buenos Aires Art Dealer is a webzine magazine on Art, Antiques & Collectibles made or found in Argentina. The Buenos Aires ArtDealer, Argentina.



Bob Frassinetti. Copyright 2005. Roberto Dario Frassinetti. Argentina.









Posted by bob frassinetti at 11:56 AM
Updated: Saturday, 20 August 2005 12:31 PM
Tuesday, 2 August 2005
Fiat Tractor 700 S Concord made by Buby only in Argentina
Topic: Buby, Die Cast, Argentina
Buby Tractor.

In the search of the history of Buby's farm toys we recently published a
first approach to knowing the story behind the Buby Fiat 700s CONCORD
Tractor.

See Photo Image Gallery of this Buby Tractor:

       
Link to Photo Album Fiat Tractor 700 S Concord



Fiat Tractor 700 S Concord made by Buby only in Argentina.

We had brought into consideration the fact that this specific Buby item was never commercialized.
This first information was a good starting point. However we wanted to know more.
Hence, we contacted the very best immediate source, Mr. Buby. After a great telephone conversation, he agreed to have a word with us on the record about this matter.
He first told us about his business relation with Fiat Argentina. Some years before he was approached by the Fiat executives to produce a scale model of the 700s CONCORD Fiat tractor, he had already been working together with Fiat Argentina. The first two Fiat models done in scale by Buby were the Fiat 1500 and the Fiat 1500 Pick up. These two items were a total success; and the executives at Fiat were very pleased with Buby's work. Faithful scale reproduction of outstanding vehicles was just what they were looking for. Parents would drive the newest Fiat models and kids would play with them, dreaming about driving them one day through the lovely Argentinean landscape.
Then, when Fiat Argentina had produced it's first tractor in Argentina, they contacted Buby again to produce a scale model of their brand new tractor.
Buby then got to work, they accessed the tractors blueprints at Fiat’s headquarters in Belgrano, Buenos Aires; and with all that confidential information plus a great deal of talent and vision, Buby came up with an
outstanding item. "The scale tractor was a refined piece", says Mr, Buby, when we ask him about his impressions back then. He continues to tell us "
we had included direction, when you turned the wheel, tires moved, even the
back ploughing moved and had gorgeous details such as the grating. The engine cover was removable." No doubt about it this item expressed Buby's great capability of producing high quality, great fidelity and beautiful auto- models.
Mr. Buby comments agree with our previous article. And there's a plus, for he had told us that "this item is more a collectible than a toy item, for it
's delicacy and fidelity with the original tractor". We might add, this was Buby’s first approach to the production of collectibles for collectors, caring greatly about faithfulness, quality and design; many years latter he would retake this road when he launches to the market his Collectors Classics.
Back to the Buby tractor, they had produced 10,000 units especially for Fiat.
The Buby Company was not to sell this item ever; nor did Fiat, who according to what Mr. Buby told us "had given them away as presents for their special clients and other Fiat bases all over the globe."

The tractor was a success. Buby & Fiat kept on working together developing several new models during the 60s and 70s. From 1973 to 1975 Buby & Fiat worked on several trucks models on a 1:64 scale.
Their working together would soon come to an end, not due to personal affairs or arguments, but because the Argentine economy was changing rapidly and soon Buby would have to close it's doors until the mid 1980s.


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Posted by bob frassinetti at 1:49 PM
Updated: Tuesday, 2 August 2005 1:57 PM
Thursday, 21 July 2005
Jeep Willy Kaiser Buby Die cast Made only in Argentina
Topic: Buby, Die Cast, Argentina
Buby Die cast rare Kaiser Willy Estanciera, red and white example,one of the oldest ones around.

See Photo Image Gallery Buby Die Cast:

                 
Link to Photo Album Jeep Willy Kaiser only from Argentina

More information on this Estanciera,Ika can be found in the Buby Catalog, named La Historia en Fotos;Buby by Lucien Brousse,see Photo Image Gallery of this Book I ahve for sale:

Link to Photo Album Buby. The History in Pictures




Important Notice: Today, once again, we are "one City,one World". We stand with the UK. Bob Frassinetti.



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Posted by bob frassinetti at 1:21 PM
Updated: Thursday, 21 July 2005 7:15 PM
Saturday, 4 June 2005
ESTANCIERA IKA Buby Die cast rare Toy,Photo Image Gallery
Topic: Buby, Die Cast, Argentina
ESTANCIERA IKA Buby Die cast 1.43 rare Toy,Photo Image Gallery.

                   
Link to Photo Album Estanciera IKA Buby


See original Buby interview in Spanish, below. For English version see it here.


My Interview with Buby Mahler. Buby, Die Cast model Car.
Topic: Buby, Die Cast, Argentina
My Interview with Buby. Die cast model Car.



Toys and,or collectables?

Name an Argentinean man, who?s now in his mid 40?s that didn?t play once with the well-known BUBY cars/die cast. Name one whose father or uncle, didn?t buy one of those fascinating miniatures. Scale reproductions that were jealously true to the original ones.

Read more, press here.My Interview with Buby Mahler. My Interview with Buby. Die cast model Car Maker.
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See Video for suspension patent by Buby Part 1. Patent Number on bottom side.




ENTREVISTA A HAROLDO “BUBY” MALHER
Fabricante de los autitos Buby

Hemos tenido el agrado de entrevistar al se?or Haroldo Malher, un verdadero pionero en la industria nacional juguetera, quien nos visito en nuestra oficina para charlar sobre su experiencia empresarial y sus proyectos futuros. A continuacion transcribimos la amena entrevista que realizamos.


Marzo 2003

Al llegar a mi oficina del barrio de Acassusso, Buby observa a su alrededor y nota que esta ante un fanatico de los autos coleccionables, un fanatico como el. Decenas de diecast pueblan el espacio donde se desarrollara el reportaje. La primera impresion, por lo tanto, es grata, y trae consigo distencion y calurosidad. Lo que iba a ser una estructurada entrevista se convierte por intencion del entrevistado en una amena charla entre dos personas que aman y se toman en serio lo que hacen, poniendo todas sus energias en eso que les da placer. Las anecdotas y los proyectos fluiran de la boca de Buby conjuntamente con el orgullo que trae la a?oranza de epocas pasadas, ese orgullo que lo pone frente a mi grabador dispuesto a contar su historia.


ArtDealer: Buenas tardes Haroldo.

Buby: Buenas tardes.

ArtDealer: Actualmente usted no esta produciendo... ?tiene pensado volver a hacerlo alguna vez?

Buby: Si, estoy charlando con una gente para ver si podemos sacar una buena coleccion de autitos a escala, con una nueva tecnologia, ya no con los moldes de acero tradicionales, pero no queremos hacer cualquier coche sino aquellos modelos que se fabricaron en la Argentina.
Muchas de las colecciones que existen en el mundo se basan en vehiculos norteamericanos o europeos, pero por ejemplo un Rambler Ambassador nunca se ha hecho en el mundo, mi idea es apoyarme en esta clase de autos para fabricar juguetes.

ArtDealer: Usted ya ha fabricado autitos sobre modelos nacionales, algunos modelos de Ika por ejemplo...

Buby: De Ika hice la Estanciera, el Renault Dauphine y el Renault 6. Ya despues la fabrica dejo de ser Ika y paso a ser Renault, por lo que de Ika solo hicimos esos tres. Nacionales hice el Torino tambien, que fue un gran exito.

ArtDealer: ?Como va a ser, en caso de que comience a producir, esta nueva coleccion que tiene en mente?

Buby: Mas o menos como los Collectors que he sacado en los '80, aunque en algunos aspectos bastante mejorados obviamente, pero la base es ese nivel de calidad. Va a estar dirigido al coleccionista tanto extranjero como nacional, van a ser series limitadas y numeradas.

ArtDealer: ?para cuando saldria esta coleccion?

Buby: Mi interes es que en el 2004 salga este en el Mercado.
ArtDealer: ?Que autos de coleccion produjeron con los Collectors?

Buby: El Camaro 69, el Packard Caribbean 56, el Chevrolet Belerd 55, el Ford Sunliner 53, el Mercury 54, el Fireplate 56, el Lincoln Continental 46, el Studbaker Avanti....

ArtDealer: ?Cuantos ejemplares produjeron de cada uno?

Buby: Nosotros haciamos series numeradas de 20.000 de cada modelo. De cada color y de cada tipo haciamos 500. Esa era la idea. Todos venian numerados, eso muestra todo lo que nosotros nos esmerabamos para el coleccionista internacional, es un trabajo adicional importantisimo el numerar caja, chasis y el certificado. No se si eso se ha valorado del todo.... creo que recien en este ultimo tiempo internacionalmente se han comenzado a valorar nuestros die-cast.

ArtDealer: En el mundo del coleccionable hay mucho interes por los Buby

Buby: Si, actualmente los Buby son una rara Avis incluso en la Argentina.... yo he visto pagar por una Estanciera 2000 dolares.

ArtDealer: El Torino tambien se vende muy bien y los Kaiser son muy buscados, quizas sea una buena linea para volver a producir.

Buby: Si, puede ser, el Carabela tambien por ejemplo, que fue el primer auto bello que se hizo en la Argentina.

ArtDealer: ?Hace cuantos a?os que esta en la Argentina Malher?

Buby: Yo naci aca, mi padre vino de Alemania en el a?o '22 y mi madre en el '23. Se casaron en el '28 y yo naci en el '31.


ArtDealer: ?Como hizo para sobrellevar los continuos cataclismos economicos del pais y seguir produciendo?

Buby: Mire..... siempre en mi historia hay un hecho recurrente, cuando yo tenia la fabrica caminando como un relojito cambiaban las reglas de juego y todo se complicaba.... el Rodrigazo en el a?o '75 fue terrible, me dejaron sin capital de trabajo y no habia credito. Yo tenia 150 personas que querian cobrar y no tenia que darles.... despues hubo epocas de desabastecimiento, en fin, con las peque?as industrias el pais no ha sido muy generoso nunca.
Despues otra cosa, para salvarse habia que ser tramposo, y no todo el mundo lo era. Tengo colegas que hicieron todo lo que Dios prohibio y se salvaron, pero bueno, es una opcion que eligieron.

ArtDealer: ?Sus productos eran 100% argentinos?

Buby: Generalmente si, solo en una epoca, cuando gobernaba Ongania, importe piezas de Solido, de Francia, que armabamos aca en el pais. En ese momento las piezas para armar pagaban un recargo mucho menor que la pieza terminada, entonces nosotros armabamos esas piezas aca y saliamos al mercado a un precio razonable. Yo importaba de a 10.000 piezas de Solido y las vendia en una partida muy rapidamente. Ese era el mercado de aquel entonces.

ArtDealer: ?Cuantas unidades por mes sacaba al mercado en la mejor epoca de la empresa?

Buby: Depende de la escala. De la escala grande, descartando los Solido que fue una excepcion, unas 10.000 piezas por mes. De los chiquitos vendiamos en la mejor temporada, cuando tuvimos un pico muy grande en el a?o '86, '87, antes que tronara el plan austral, vendiamos 200.000 piezas por mes, una cantidad impresionante, haciamos 10.000 autitos diarios. En esa epoca empleabamos a mas de 200 personas en nuestra planta de Don Torcuato, la mayoria de los procesos eran automatizados, la pintura por ejemplo era automatica.

ArtDealer: ?Cuanto tiempo estuvo dedicandose a la industria?

Buby: Mas de 40 a?os. Yo cuando empece con el primer modelo tenia 24 a?os, no me tomaban en serio cuando iba a las jugueterias.

ArtDealer: ?Cual fue su primer modelo?

Buby: Un Buick '67. que lo hice porque me gustaba el modelo nada mas. Yo tuve en toda mi historia industrial un feeling especial para elegir los modelos, me equivoque pocas veces. Yo en aquel entonces hacia los modelos para los chicos, los chicos despues se hicieron coleccionistas. Yo creo, sin animo de agrandarme, que el coleccionismo argentino lo invente yo, fue a raiz de los Buby y el juego intenso con ellos que se penso en coleccionarlos. Yo los hacia con suspension a comienzos de los '60, cosa que a nadie en el mundo se le habia ocurrido hasta ese momento. Yo fui el primero en ponerle suspension, despues lo copiaron en Inglaterra, Estados Unidos y demas al a?o siguiente, pero todavia ellos les ponian una suspension muy burda, de mucha menor calidad que la mia.
Yo todavia tengo la patente de la suspension para los autitos, la particularidad de esa suspension es que se podia adaptar al peso del auto. Los chicos despues mejoraban esos coches, les ponian mas peso adentro y jugaban carreras sobre el cordon de la vereda, porque mis autos ademas tenian una direccion perfecta, por lo que iban bien derechos. Los Buby se han popularizado justamente a partir de las carreras que los ni?os jugaban y de esa suspension. Ese era el factor determinante de la popularidad de los Buby mas alla de la belleza que los autos tenian. Los chicos compraban un auto para jugar y otro igual para tenerlo en la casa, para mostrarlo en un estante, por eso digo que yo invente al coleccionista de autitos en el pais. Todos los hombres que hoy tienen entre 40 y 45 a?os han hecho alguna vez en su vida carreras con los Buby.

ArtDealer: ?Le han quedado modelos de esa epoca?

Buby: Lamentablemente, cuando tenia la fabrica en Ranelagh, que fue la primera, antes de la de Cordoba, yo tenia una habitacion con todos los modelos pero un dia entre y no habia nada, me los habian robado todos.

ArtDealer: ?Como debia ser un autito que salia de la fabrica Buby?

Buby: Ante todo, debia ser un modelo del original, repito, un modelo, no una cosa mas o menos, estaba hecho practicamente a escala. Debian ser lo mas fiel posible, eso tambien llamo la atencion de los chicos.

ArtDealer: ?Como fueron los origenes de Buby?

Buby: Los primeros modelos que yo hice los vendia de jugueteria en jugueteria, iba con una valijita y no me animaba a ir a las jugueterias grandes. En las jugueterias de barrio no me los compraban porque decian que era caro, y me mostraban una porqueria de lata que vendian mas barato.... no se daban cuenta de nada, no habia forma de explicarles que esto era otras cosa.
Hasta que una vez, en una peluqueria de la calle Callao, un tipo me compro seis autitos y de repente se me puso otro tipo al lado y me pregunto: ?Digame joven, usted esta vendiendo esto? Si le respondi ?y quien es el fabricante? Yo le dije. Saco enseguida una tarjeta y me dijo: Ma?ana a las 09:00 me viene a ver. Era el gerente de la jugueteria Santa Claus, sobre la Av. Santa Fe, que en ese entonces era una de las jugueterias mas grandes de Buenos Aires.
Al otro dia fui a su oficina y el tipo me dijo: Vea, usted no tiene que ir a jugueterias chicas.... y me dio una lista con las 20 jugueterias mas grandes de Buenos Aires. A estos le tiene que vender usted me dijo, el precio esta bien, a mi me manda 60 autitos y vuelva la semana que viene. A la otra semana fui, me pago y me compro 144 mas. Asi empezo el asunto. Ese fue el verdadero nacimiento de Buby.
Esto fue un 10 de diciembre y fue un plato porque el 27 yo me embarque a Europa por una beca que habia ganado en la facultad de Ingenieria (yo estudiaba Ingenieria Naval). Y me llegaban a Europa cartas de mi viejo diciendome que no sabia que hacer porque todo el mundo queria mis autitos... al final, interrumpi todo y me volvi a la Argentina a fabricarlos. Esa fue la historia sobre los origenes de Buby.

ArtDealer: ?De donde sale el nombre Buby?

Buby: Esa es otra historia, nos desbanamos los sesos pensando un nombre... Era Terry, Roby, que se yo... necesitabamos un nombre corto, que pegue, que la gente lo recuerde, asi fue que despues de mucho pensar decidi ponerle mi apodo de toda la vida, Buby, que fue el sobrenombre que me puso mi padre al nacer.

ArtDealer: ?Y porque te llamo Buby tu padre?

Buby: Esa es otra historia mas... resulta que el primogenito de la rama Malher siempre se llamo Carlos, pero a mi madre se le ocurrio que me tenia que llamar distinto, entonces mi papa le dio el gusto a mi madre y me inscribio como Haroldo Nicolas pero volvio a casa y me llamo Buby.
Yo pensaba en un principio que era una pedanteria ponerle mi sobrenombre a los autitos, pero me dijeron ?quien sabe tu apodo? Buby es corto, suena bien.... y asi me convencieron.

ArtDealer: O sea que lo podemos llamar Buby ahora...

Buby: Si si, si me dicen Haroldo pienso que estan llamando a otra persona.

ArtDealer: ?Cual cree que fue el mejor modelo que saco?

Buby: El que mas me gusto a mi fue el Pontiac GT, era un auto americano modelo '66. Ese fue el ultimo modelo que yo dise?e personalmente. Hasta ahi llegue con la escala 1.40. A partir de ahi comenzamos con la 1.43. Si me pregunta porque haciamos escala 1.40 le respondo que porque me gustaba, y nada mas, y como yo tenia la suspension debia darle cierto tama?o a los autos para que realmente rodaran, pero yo me acuerdo que al Pontiac le pusimos hasta direccion, puertitas que se abrian, todo un alarde tecnico. Con ese auto tuvimos mucho exito, despues en base a ese modelo hicimos un Stop Car americano, de la Nascar, que tambien tuvo mucho exito, llegamos a sacar 15.000 unidades de los modelos de la Nascar.
Pero despues con Martinez de Hoz se dificulto mucho el tema.... tanto es asi que cuando empece nuevamente en el a?o '82, '83 aca en Don Torcuato no hice mas los autos grandes, saque los Mini Buby, a escala 1.64.

ArtDealer: ?Cual fue el ultimo modelo de los autitos grandes?

Buby: El ultimo en escala 1.43 fue un Camaro en el a?o '77 o '78. Ese tambien fue el ultimo modelo que hicimos con puertitas que se abren, y todo ese alarde tecnico que les comentaba recien. Eran modelos realmente excepcionales, no habia marca en el mundo que nos superase. Fijese que cuando se abre la importacion en la epoca de Martinez de
Hoz la empresa Gillete que en aquel entonces fabricaba los Jet nos paso la produccion a nosotros, durante un tiempo nosotros le fabricabamos a esta gente aca en el pais.

ArtDealer: ?Los exportaban?

Buby: No no, era para el pais, pero despues la invasion de modelos extranjeros era tan grande que no le convenia ni a el ni a mi ni a nadie. Vea, le cuento, en aquel entonces la gente no se fijaba en la calidad del objeto que compraba, bastaba que sea importado para que se lo lleven.
Les cuento una anecdota que va a ilustrarles esto: Cuando se abrio la importacion de Martinez de Hoz nosotros habiamos sacado un tren a pila con una licencia alemana de Falher, un tren excelente, tanto es asi que nosotros le fabricabamos piezas a la gente de Alemania. Yo le hice en ese entonces una venta muy grande a Harrod's, que tenia un Departamento de jugueteria, y le armamos toda una mesa con el tren y todos los chiches... Yo fui a ver como andaba la mesa y visite la gondola para ver como era el recibimiento, si la gente se lo llevaba o no. Cuando llegue a la Gondola habia una se?ora que estaba mirando el tren nuestro y diciendo !Que lindo!, de repente lo dio vuelta y su cara se transformo, Ah, es argentino.... dijo, lo puso otra vez en la gondola y se llevo un tren japones de primer precio, un tren ordinario, pero era Made in Japan.... lo pago mas caro que el nuestro y era de una calidad muy inferior, pero se fue contenta. Era esa la mentalidad, la gente no tenia discernimiento sobre calidad. Cuando yo saque la escala 1.64 con una planta absolutamente automatizada los Matchbox no eran mejores que los nuestros, los Mayoret tampoco... nuestra calidad era buenisima, la pintura era buena, los materiales eran buenos, la presentacion era buena... pero la gente no lo distinguia, recien ahora los coleccionistas estan valorando ese trabajo.

Art Dealer: Bueno Buby, Muchas gracias por venir

Buby: No, gracias a ustedes por invitarme, chau.


La despedida parece contener en si un futuro reencuentro, la relajada charla me hace pensar que pronto estare de vuelta frente a el, mate por medio, para seguir conversando sobre nuestra pasion, los diecast.
Mientras lo veo alejarse de mi oficina, observo las fotos y las descripciones detalladas del catalogo de su produccion a lo largo de mas de 30 a?os, y me queda la hermosa sensacion de haber tenido la oportunidad de conocer la historia de los mas relevantes diecast nacionales a traves de la voz de su propio creador. El orgullo ahora es mio cuando me entrego al recuerdo de la reciente entrevista.




Ver Catalogo Buby.

Link to Photo Album Buby. The History in Pictures


El catalogo de la coleccion completa de Buby se puede adquirir mandando un e-mail a: Email: Bob Frassinetti.


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Posted by bob frassinetti at 4:16 PM
Updated: Saturday, 11 June 2005 2:56 PM
Friday, 15 April 2005
My Interview with Buby Mahler. Buby, Die Cast model Car.
Topic: Buby, Die Cast, Argentina
My Interview with Buby. Die cast model Car.



Toys and,or collectables?

Name an Argentinean man, who’s now in his mid 40’s that didn’t play once with the well-known BUBY cars/die cast. Name one whose father or uncle, didn’t buy one of those fascinating miniatures. Scale reproductions that were jealously true to the original ones.

Our memory flashes back to the time of the car races powered by hand. We used to make them go round and round, in circles drawn with choc, down in our backyards or at the sidewalk. Boys -many of them teenagers- who were more competitive “fixed” the cars, through the most unique home-made techniques, to get advantage over their rivals.
It was the time when those, who now com their gray hair (o are definitely bold), received, as precious gifts, the English miniatures of Dinky Toys, Matchbox, or the Germans’ Schuko (which were other type of car racing toys).

Anyhow, the fact is that by the end of the 50’s, the Argentinean market was receiving a collection of scale cars, for the joy of every kid.
They reproduced with perfection the shapes and proportions of the real ones. These toys were Argentinean, and carried a brand that would become a classic in that field: BUBY.

Which is the story of those remembered little cars and why now do we bring them back to our desktop?
It’s simple. Years ago, Buby launched a series of models, this time not as toys, but as collector’s items. By the same token, we found out that Haroldo Mahler, better known as “Buby”, was preparing his return to the market with the re-edition of Argentinean classic cars: i.e. Ford Falcon Sprint, etc.

In a mix of expectancy -for what will come- and the nostalgia of taking a gaze at the recent past of this interesting national industry, we tracked down the patter creature of this history; Buby Mahler.
The tete-a-tete was almost a monologue from Buby, whose eyes glowed with enthusiasm when he evoked the good old times.


Interview with Buby Mahler:

-With that last name you must surely be German… By any chances, you wouldn’t have any relation with the famous musician Gustav Mahler, would you?

-No, unluckily I’m not a relative. My parents were German; I was born in Argentina in 1931. I was brought up in the country. At that time, we lived at 27 km from Buenos Aires, which was a great distance. However, you could get downtown comfortably by train. My parents were from the Black Forest and the Low Bavaria; they arrived at Argentina in 1922.

-Which studies allowed you to become the Industrial Manager that you were, or that you still are?

-At the age of 5, my parents took me to Germany to live for a year. There I learnt something that helped me for the rest of my life: the language. Later in Argentina came the primary school, then the secondary at the Military school and finally the university. I studied to be a Naval and Mechanic Engineer at the University of Buenos Aires.

-On balance, what was the most useful?

-Many things. The language, to read technique literature that I used to learn how to precede. What I learnt at the University helped me to make the prints of the coach-buildings. All together I used it to give the information to the matrix builders. Because initially, the first BUBY’s mold was made with a burin, not with a pantograph, like we do today.

-Indeed, you have always loved cars… Specifically, when did the adventure begun?

-Since I was a child I was a great fan. The best present my father gave me was a Dinky car. Remember that that was the time when the world was at the second war, so it was very difficult to find one of those. I used to fantasize with the little car, imagining myself inside driving. One day I had to make a present to another kid and I thought to myself: “what a better gift for a boy than a little car!!?” Consequently, I went to a toyshop and ask for a Dinky Toys’ car. In a mysterious move the shopkeeper pulled the little toy from under the counter. When I asked for the price, I could hardly believe it. It cost as much as I spent in a month as a student. “No way!”- I thought. And I asked for a national alternative. They were all ugly, so I didn’t bought them either.
Deeply disappointed, in the ride home I wondered… why can’t we make them better in Argentina?
The next day I went to see a Professor of mine and asked him: “How is this made?”. He answered: “Read this and that”. So I went to the library of the university and borrowed the books. I read and read, eventually, I made my first prints of the molds.
Later, with the supervision of my professor, I made my first mold.

-How did you started, I mean, at an industrial scale?

-Once I had the model and de mold, I started looking for someone who would injected it for me. I was lucky enough that very near from Ranelagh (where I lived), there was an industrial smelter which made parts for the washing machine’s company Drean. Conveniently, they new my family, so they did it for me and –what’s most important for someone who’s just starting- the gave me credit. I injected them in Zamak (ZK), an alloy of zinc. The next chapter was to find how to paint the little cars. I begun experimenting with different paints, until I found a factory in Buenos Aires –Steelcoalt- which prepared for me baking paints.

-What was your first industrial plant like?

- Everything started in an empty old storage, back in my parent’s home in Ranelagh. This was in the year 1957, although the original idea was conceived a year earlier. The matrix maker I had hired didn’t keep up with the schedule, so I had break up the contract and find another one. I found him in Bernal, and he was the one who actually made the mold in the accorded time. That’s way I had a year of delay.

- So, you started with toys.

-I thought to myself: “I want kids to play with it too…” I needed to make something good enough for the kid to see in it the real model, and at the same time to be able to play with it. The car must roll fine. For that, it had to be properly suspended. I invented a suspension, which I patented, and with it I made the car roll perfectly. In a plane, regular track it could roll for about 7 to 9 meters. I believe that the combination of the beautiful models and the fact that you could play well with it, gave the BUBY brand its initial boost.
I didn’t have knowledge of the market, and the big suppliers (mayoristas) told me they were too expensive, so they couldn’t be sold. However, I decided to go personally to every neighborhood’s toy store. They began to buy, but only 2 or 3 at a time. Until one day, when I was selling in a barber shop (which I saw it was selling toys for Christmas Eve), a gentleman approached me and asked: “Do you make them?”- I answered: “I’m selling them and I make them”. In no time, he gave me his personal card and said: “Young man, meet me tomorrow at 11 o’clock at my office.”
This gentleman was the manager of the Santa Claus toy stores, one of the most important in Buenos Aires. When I arrived at his office, he congratulated me and requested 60 unites for his stores. At the same time, he gave me a list of all the stores I must visit. That is how my commercial success begun. At that time I was only 23…

- How did the industrial development continue?

- The following year I opened two small prefabricated plants of 72 m2 each. I had 144 m2 for the assembly. I rented an 140 m2 house close to it. By 1970 I was building, also in Ranelagh, a larger factory of 600 m2. That same year, I acquire, in Villa General Belgrano, the 1,600 m2 that coexisted with Ranelagh. All together we had a monthly production of 20,000 unites in a 1/43 scale, which represented 800/1000 miniatures daily.
Actually, what I bought in Cordoba (Villa General Belgrano), was in order to make the smaller cars (1/64). This scale was mainly used in ferromodelism, I wanted to do something different from Matchbox.

- Tell me about the famous Mercedes Benz little trucks.

- Those were the “1112” in a 1/43 scale. Later, requested by the factory, I made other Mercedes out of scale.

- Lets talk about the “Collectors Classic”.

- It was born when the “Plan Austral” failed. We considered that we had to follow the Chilean example. Adopt an export profile in order to subsist. Therefore, I focused all my production into world wide exportable items. Based on my preference for those cars as well as the market, we developed a collection of North American cars.
I was inspired by the Indianapolis 500 pace cars. This collection included the Chevrolet, the Ford, the DeSoto, the Lincoln of the 50’s, and finally the Camaro, which commanded the Indy of the ’69. That was the last one of the collection; I was margined of the market. I couldn’t compete with the prices. Our cars were too expensive in contrast with the ones that came from the Orient.

- Can you remember any anecdote related with your cars?

- Some. For instances, when me exhibited the Collectors Classic in the Nuremberg faire, in Germany (this was the annual world wide faire of toys and collectable). We were showing cars from 1988 to 1993. Many people approached us asking if we were BUBY from Argentina. It was pretty awkward for them to see someone from Latin America exhibiting between all those “monsters” of the European and Asian production.
Argentinean kids, somehow, were highly privileged for having at their reach the “real” cars that they saw every day on the streets.

- We caught wind of your intentions of coming back to market with some Argentinean Classics. Is it true?

- Yes, it’s. This was encouraged by old BUBY users. People who are now in their 40’s, that used to race my little cars, approached me and asked why didn’t I re-launched the Torino or the Ford… With that in mind, I went to Talgo and consulted them. They said it would be an exit. So I decided to do it.

- Will you use different techniques, other materials for the new production?

- I’m going to use the same old molds, although instead of making the chassis in plastic I will make them in Zamak. I’ll improve the materials, paints (using solutions that inexistent in the past). For instance, the wind shields will be made out of a much better material, and essentially I’ll improve the tires. We have to take into account that this will be a collector’s item and not a toy specifically.

- Is it going to take part in the Collectors Classic?

- No. They’re going to be Buby. Plus, we’ll mark them with the word “re-edition”, to make them identifiable as original of that time. I’m planning to launch them this year (2003). We’ll make our debut with the Ford Falcon Sprint,that will have the colors of its time and not the fantasy ones, generally used for toys.
I love meeting with grownups, who for one reason or another recognize me and ask: “You are the one who made those cars, aren’t you? You can’t imagine in how many races I beat my friends thanks to them.” It’s amazing the way they admire and recognize me due to my cars. It’s very beautiful to, somehow, have contributed to the joy of the kids. Much more than the money I earned for it…


For more information on Buby Die Cast please feel free to email me, Bob Frassinetti.


Email: The Buenos Aires Toy Museum,Bob Frassinetti. The Buenos Aires
Toy Museum,Argentina.


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Posted by bob frassinetti at 12:58 PM
Thursday, 14 April 2005
ESTANCIERA IKA Buby Die cast rare Toy
Topic: Buby, Die Cast, Argentina
ESTANCIERA IKA Buby Die Cast rare Toy from Argentina, 1/43 Made around the late 60's.

See Image Gallery of this IKA Estanciera bt Buby:

Link to Photo Album ESTANCIERA IKA Buby Die cast rare Toy





Several model manufacturers have existed in Argentina, the best known of them is Buby. This company produced model cars from the late 1950s up to the 1990s, first in 1/43rd scale, later also in 1/64th scale. European and American cars were copied, but often these original cars were specially prepared for the South American market and were made in Argentina. In the 1960s Buby also painted and assembled models supplied by the French manufacturer Solido. These Buby models differed from the French models only by a sticker on the box. Finally, Buby produced the "Collector's Classics" and "Buby's Classics" models until 1992: limited edition diecast models of American cars of the 1950s and 1960s in 1/43rd scale.

More information on this Estanciera,Ika can be found in the Buby Catalog, named La Historia en Fotos;Buby by Lucien Brousse,see Image Gallery of this Book for sale:

Link to Photo Album Buby. The History in Pictures

See Page 42 and 43 of the catalog for details. This Ika Estanciera was made by Kaiser Industries of Argentina.

See The Buenos Aires Toy Museum Image Gallery of Buby Die Cast toy cars and tractors,etc we have, and some our for sale:

Link to Photo Album Buby Diecast Argentina





Email: The Buenos Aires Toy Museum,Bob Frassinetti. The Buenos Aires
Toy Museum,Argentina.


Bob Frassinetti. Copyright 2005. Roberto Dario Frassinetti.


Posted by bob frassinetti at 2:41 PM
Updated: Thursday, 14 April 2005 5:23 PM
Monday, 13 December 2004
Information on Buby, diecast toys from Argentina
Topic: Buby, Die Cast, Argentina
Buby tractor.

In the search of the history of Buby's farm toys we recently published a
first approach to knowing the story behind the Buby Fiat 700s CONCORD
Tractor. We had brought into consideration the fact that this specific Buby
item was never commercialized.
This first information was a good starting point. However we wanted to know
more.
Hence, we contacted the very best immediate source, Mr. Buby. After a great
telephone conversation, he agreed to have a word with us on the record about
this matter.
He first told us about his business relation with Fiat Argentina. Some years
before he was approached by the Fiat executives to produce a scale model of
the 700s CONCORD Fiat tractor, he had already been working together with
Fiat Argentina. The first two Fiat models done in scale by Buby were the
Fiat 1500 and the Fiat 1500 Pick up. These two items were a total success;
and the executives at Fiat were very pleased with Buby's work. Faithful
scale reproduction of outstanding vehicles was just what they were looking
for. Parents would drive the newest Fiat models and kids would play with
them, dreaming about driving them one day through the lovely Argentinean
landscape.
Then, when Fiat Argentina had produced it's first tractor in Argentina, they
contacted Buby again to produce a scale model of their brand new tractor.
Buby then got to work, they accessed the tractors blueprints at Fiat's
headquarters in Belgrano, Buenos Aires; and with all that confidential
information plus a great deal of talent and vision, Buby came up with an
outstanding item. "The scale tractor was a refined piece", says Mr, Buby,
when we ask him about his impressions back then. He continues to tell us "
we had included direction, when you turned the wheel, tires moved, even the
back plowing moved and had gorgeous details such as the grating. The engine
cover was removable." No doubt about it this item expressed Buby's great
capability of producing high quality, great fidelity and beautiful auto-
models.
Mr. Buby comments agree with our previous article. And there's a plus, for
he had told us that "this item is more a collectible than a toy item, for it
's delicacy and fidelity with the original tractor". We might add, this was
Buby's first approach to the production of collectibles for collectors,
caring greatly about faithfulness, quality and design; many years latter he
would retake this road when he launches to the market his Collectors
Classics.
Back to the Buby tractor, they had produced 10,000 units specially for Fiat.
The Buby company was not to sell this item ever; nor did Fiat, who according
to what Mr. Buby told us "had given them away as presents for their special
clients and other Fiat bases all over the globe."

The tractor was a success. Buby & Fiat kept on working together developing
several new models during the 60s and 70s. From 1973 to 1975 Buby & Fiat
worked on several trucks models on a 1:64 scale.
Their working together would soon come to an end, not due to personal
affairs or arguments, but because the Argentine economy was changing rapidly
and soon Buby would have to close it's doors until the mid 1980s.


Buby's joint ventures.

Most worldwide collectors know Buby for it's outstanding diecast products
made in Argentina from 1950 to the early 1990s, and, yes, this is the most
important Buby production. However, Buby also had worked together with
French diecast company Solido, American international firm Gillette and Siku
toys.
The master of Argentinean diecasts had such a passion for toys and scale
model cars that when he wasn't able to produce them, all due to very
complicated Argentina's economical situation and economic policy, he joined
some of the world's masters to keep on bringing high quality, great fidelity
toys to Argentinean kids. All of which would later in history will be
appreciated by worldwide collectors.
From 1968 to 1969 Buby imported Solido diecasts chassis in parts. Back then
it was an excellent opportunity to import parts -instead of the finished
item- and ensemble it in the country, finishing the item and producing some
things such as the packaging, wheels, paint.They imported 10,000 pieces sets
at a time, it was quite a large amount they assembled them and sold in
really good conditions. These items can be recognized for in the bottom part
of the chassis there' s an engraving of the Solido brand, and next to it, a
sticker that reads "Buby, made in Argentina", for all wheels and smaller
details were made in the Buenos Aires Buby plant, as well as all packaging.
There were around seven or eight different models imported, among of which
are:
- Oldsmobile tornado
- Ford Mustang
- Porsche carrera 6
- Maseratti Indy
- Ferrari Cupe

From 1976 to the early years of 1980s, Buby -as most local companies were
going through a very complicated phase, for all economic policies were
adverse for them. Once again, carried on by his passion for diecasts, Buby
was to become Siku's Argentine representation. They brought finished items.
These were also very high quality items, as all Buby's venture projects and
products. They imported the finished product, nothing was done within the
country, not even the packaging, hence, there was no Buby- Siku toys, just
Siku, imported by Buby, but there was no inscription or label making
reference to this. Among the imported items, these toy vehicles were mainly
trucks and utility vehicles in all their different versions.

During the 80s, Buby once again joint in labors with a foreign company, this
time it was Gillette. At first, Buby would develop models and castings for
Gillette and their Jet collection, but when Gillette decided to shut down it
's toy production, Buby bought several of Gillette's old castings and kept
on producing those models within the Mini Buby Collection and the Buby
collection.
Eleven models -who had been Gillette's- were included in this Serie 100
collection, one of them was the Maserati Indy. This collection was completed
with nine other models that had appeared in the previous series, plus a new
one: the Renault 12 break. There was a new uniformed packaging style for
this collection.

These were Buby's joint works. This passion for toys and diecasts is
unquestionable, even when he wasn't able to produce he managed to bring to
the country top quality items and great deals. His input to million's of
Argentineans childhood is unquestionable. The respect and admiration earned
all over the world for his productions also.


Buby's Sanson line.

Throughout his lifetime production Mr. Buby and his fantastic products
delighted millions of children and collectors with innovative and top
quality diecast models. However diecasts was not the only type of toy
vehicles he did produce. There are several special vehicles and toys that
Buby developed, a fantastic Rail System train, some futurist pull back naif
models such as the Olly line and many other off the top fantastic models.
During the mid 1960s Buby created the Sanson line. The Gladiator Jeep was
the first and only model this line would ever have. Initially Buby had
specially created the Sanson line to cover a specific market area that was
not being targeted at that time: high quality plastic toy vehicles. This
unique Jeep item was fully made in plastic, not zamac as all the other
diecast vehicles from the previous collection.
The original Jeep model that was reproduced at a 1:32 scale by Buby was made
by the Kaiser Industries Argentina (IKA). It was the Jeep Gladiador Super
TA-4PB model made at the Santa Isabel plant in Cordoba, Argentina. It was a
superb jeep model for those days, with a tornado OHC-230, 6 cylinder motor
and 155 HP.
Back then, to develop this particular line, Buby had worked together with a
local firm that had crafted the Jeep's casting and molds specially for Buby.
The Buby Jeep is a very interesting item. It was a plastic- injected three
volume yellow vehicle, similar to some pick up trucks.
Among its most outstanding features we can appreciate that all cabin
crystals are brownish, so the interior is not clearly visualized. Front and
back bumpers are chromate. The yellow car body features the following
phrases: "Buby Sanson", "Industria Argentina", "Susp.patent".
This last phrase is very interesting, for it makes reference to the Buby
suspension patent. Mr. Buby had invented a very interesting suspension
system for his vehicles, that made them run straight and fast, unlike most
of the world's car toys from back then.
The Buby Sanson was commercialized in the traditional red and yellow Buby
box, including its reference number: S-1.
But, as we anticipated at the beginning of this piece, this was the Sanson
line's only item. After this jeep's production Buby feels he's best items
are diecast not plastic and returns to his origins to work on his 1:43 and
begin to develop the brilliant Mini Buby line.
The local firm who had developed the Jeep's castings would retake were Buby
had left, and commercialize two other plastic 1:32 vehicles, a Torino 380W
and a Peugeot 504. This firm was Juguetes R y M. And all it's products style
and packaging was very similar to Buby's in spite of the fact they had
nothing to do with the Buby firm.

Email Bob Frassinetti at the BA Toy
Museum.

The Buenos Aires Toy
Museum,Argentina.


Bob Frassinetti. Copyright 2004. Roberto Dario Frassinetti.





Posted by bob frassinetti at 7:27 PM
Updated: Friday, 15 April 2005 1:02 PM
Tuesday, 26 October 2004
Buby, the only catalog around.
Topic: Buby, Die Cast, Argentina
Buby.Diecast toys made in Argentina from 1957 to 1995.



Link to Photo Album Buby. The History in Pictures

At the end of 1999, the first Buby catalog was published in Argentina. Buby, The History in Photos, is a fantastic masterpiece written by Lucien C. L. Brousse who unfortunately passed away last year. His book collects all the available information on all Buby collections -except for the Collectors Classics. The main focus on the book is set on a wide range of photographs that illustrate all Buby models, their characteristics and variations suffered by the models throughout Buby's production from 1957 to 1995. This is the only available catalog on Buby's diecast. It features 286 pages filled with very interesting black and white pictures. A fantastic input of the catalog is the Preface written by the owner and creator of the Buby diecasts, Mr. Haroldo "Buby" Mahler.

This great catalog is divided into four sections or parts, each of which with tons of information and exclusive data.
The first part features the Buby collection, meaning the 1:40, 1:43 scale diecasts. A general introduction leads us into a brief history of these models' production, their main characteristics and styles. Following there are two sections specially dedicated to detail all variations in wheels and boxes throughout time. Finishing this first part, all models of this collection are described and detailed photos as reference to those descriptions complete a thorough presentation of the 1:40-1:43 Buby collection.
The second part is dedicated to special vehicles and other toys made by Buby. Here the careful reader would be able to discover a wider picture of Buby's productions, his great care for details and high quality products. Also, here there's a preview of Buby's concern for diecasts collectors, for he developed several models that weren't exactly toys, but more over top quality collectibles.
The third part is fully dedicated to carefully describe the Mini Buby Collection, its history featuring product's variations within details such as wheels and boxes. There are descriptions to all Mini Buby series, their features and characteristics. Plus a section about special packaging cases and blisters.
Last but not least, the fourth part is a great input for all Buby collectors, for in this section there's a detailed list of all documents, catalogs and books that Mr. Lucien Brousse had found on this matter. At the end of this section we find a carefully organized reference number list for all Buby products throughout history.

Without a doubt, this is a masterpiece and a must for all worldwide collectors. It's a careful and precise work that has reunited a great deal of crucial information very valuable for all collectors.

To buy a copy of the Buby Catalog or further information on this matter please contact, Email: The Buenos Aires Toy
Museum,Bob Frassinetti.

The Buenos Aires The Buenos Aires
Toy Museum,Argentina.


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Posted by bob frassinetti at 1:04 PM
Updated: Saturday, 16 April 2005 1:44 PM

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