Are you looking for a new home for one or more old Erector Sets you no longer want? Here are some suggestions for donating your Erector set: If the set contains parts that are in good shape and sufficient to Read More …
Fourth Edition On October 2, 2023, the A. C. Gilbert Heritage Society released the fourth edition of Bill Bean’s Guide to Gilbert Erector Sets, 1913-1932. Recent revisions include: Retrieve a listing of the revisions and corrections to the Fourth Edition Read More …
Third Edition The Third Edition to Bill Bean’s Guide to Gilbert Erector Sets, 1933-1962 was released on April 23, 2023. Minor revisions to the text include: This guide is a comprehensive update to the 1998 edition of Greenberg’s Guide to Read More …
Above: Cover of the 1939 American Flyer catalog Although best remembered for the S gauge trains of the 1950s that it made as a division of the A. C. Gilbert Company, American Flyer was initially an independent company whose origins Read More …
The A. C. Gilbert Company opened a Gilbert Hall of Science in Chicago, Illinois at the Congress Hotel in October 1953. These photographs, taken by the Chicago photography studio Du Bois, The Drake, are courtesy of Mark Castiglione, owner of Read More …
Jim Mietlicki writes: Anyone who builds with Erector knows that when you try to follow the instructions in the manual, the models just don’t seem to work right. I honestly think A. C. Gilbert was deliberately unclear in his model Read More …