This is a continuation of the Antique Toy Price Guide [A-B] chart. A toy is any object that can be used for play. Toys are usually associated with children and pets. Playing with toys is training the young for their social role.

A souvenir (from French, for a rememberance or memory),[1] memento, keepsake or token of rememberance[1] is an object a person acquires for the memories the owner associates with it. The term souvenir brings to mind the mass-produced kitch that is the main commodity of souvenir and gift shops in many tourist traps around the world. But a souvenir can be any object that can be collected or purchased and transported home by the traveler. The object itself has no real significance other than the psychological connection the possessor has with …

The use and making of icons entered Kievan Rus’ following its conversion to Orthodox Christianity in 988 AD. As a general rule, these icons strictly followed models and formulas hallowed by Byzantine art, led from the capital in Constantinople. As time passed, the Russians widened the vocabulary of types and styles far beyond anything found elsewhere in the Orthodox world.