Grand Illusions Ltd

February is always a busy month for our toy collector Tim Rowett, since he attends the Toy Fair in Nurenburg, ...

Always a popular toy, Tim Rowett has acquired a great many spinning tops in his amazing toy collection. Here is ...

This amazing toy gives us an insight into the behaviour of metals at an atomic level! There are two perspex ...

For this selection of toys from his collection, Tim has chosen toys that operate on the string. Some climb up a ...

Here is another bakers dozen of weird and wonderful toys from Tims collection! First, three folding items. A coathanger that ...

Mexican Jumping Beans are seeds from a shrub Sebastiania pavoniana. The shrub grows in Mexico, especially in the northwest of the ...

A very simple but baffling little trick! The Chinese coin has a hole in the middle. When threaded on a ...

As well as being the offical currency of the US, the dollar is also widely used for financial transactions around the ...

This Japanese tin toy consists of a horse and rider, with a gyroscope below. Below the gyroscope there is a tiny ...