In the I Love Lucy episode Ricky Sells the Car (24 Oct. 1955) Ricky finds his safety razor – minus blade – attached to Little Ricky’s toy rifle.
Ricky’s safety razor is a Gillette Super Speed Safety Razor.
The toy rifle is a 1950’s Hubley Davy Crockett Buffalo Rifle Cap Gun
Find a Hubley Davy Crockett Buffalo Rifle on eBay
The Rubber squeak toy Ricky finds is a Disney Pinocchio Cleo Rubber Squeak Toy from the Sun Rubber Co.
In the “I Love Lucy” episode The Ricardo’s Change Apartments Ricky discovers a squeeky toy under his seat cushion when he sits on the armchair. Froggy the Gremlin was a well known character on radio and TV during that era. In 1948 the Rempel Company produced a Froggy the Gremlin rubber squeak toy and the one Ricky has looks like the 9 inch version. 
Little Ricky’s squeak toy is a Froggy the Gremlin rubber squeeze toy made famous by Smilin’ Ed McConnell on the Buster Brown Gang radio show in the 1940’s and the later TV show.
An original Froggy in his box in good condition is a collectors item now and can easily sell for over $500 on eBay.
If you are buying one read the description carefully, the vintage rubber has hardened in some cases. The Froggy the Gremlin toy pictured above is on eBay this week CLICK HERE to view.
See Froggy the Gremlin on the 50’s kiddie show “Andy’s Gang”.
In the episode “Ricardo’s Change Apartments” Lucy is running out of space to store all the baby items. In the screen capture above we can see some of the now very collectible 50’s era toys belonging to little Ricky. On the top shelf to the left there is a Cohen Fire Chief tin pull toy, On the second shelf on the left is a Mattel Tricky Trolly – the original box is to the right of the same shelf. On top of the Tricky Trolley box appears to be a toy drum similar to Ricky’s toy drum we looked at in a previous post.
The Cohen Fire Chief pull toy was seen on eBay recently with original box but missing the fire chief’s hat at the following link
http://www.ebay.com/itm/T-Cohn-Tin-Fire-Chief-Pull-Toy-Car-with-Box-/161543611109
Mattel Plastic Toy Windup Tricky Trolley Bus
The 1950’s vintage plastic windup Tricky Trolley, made by Mattel Toys was based on the classic “Toonerville Trolley” a popular Sunday comic strip.
See Tricky Trolley on eBay
In the 1957 I Love Lucy episode “Lucy and Superman”, we see a traditional “pin the tail on the donkey” game at little Ricky’s birthday party. This game was a fixture at children’s parties for generations back to the 1800’s. Ricky Jr. game appears to be “Donkey Party” by Whitman Publishing Company.
Vintage Donkey Party game also known as Pin The Tail On The Donkey seen on eBay
In another famous episode, “The Young Fans” (Season 1, 2/25/52) where teenagers, Peggy and Arthur have crushes on the Ricardos, Lucy and Ricky take action and dress up as octogenarians. At one point, Lucy hands ‘old Ricky’ a toy drum to show Peggy that he is indeed Ricky Ricardo.
It appears that Lucy actually hands it to him upside down, but that’s how the prop was sitting waiting for her to use.
The toy drum was made by the Ohio Art Company (still in business) and looks to be vintage 1930’s or 1940’s by the artwork.
See Ohio Art Drums on Etsy (US)
The Ohio Art Company was founded in 1908. Based in Bryan, Ohio, the company is known for toys including the Etch A Sketch, and Nanoblock. Their Diversified Products segment makes custom metal lithography products for food containers such as food tins, enclosures, DVD cases, and nostalgic signs.
Credit: Special Thanks to Rick for this post.
The I Love Lucy Episode Ethel’s Birthday opens with a scene in which Lucy is tidying away Ricky Jr’s ABC blocks. Continue reading Ricky Jr’s Halsam Hi-Lo ABC Blocks
If you are looking for a good version of the Ricky Jr doll, or the earlier “I Love Lucy Baby” the run up to the holidays is probably the best time of the year because collectors often save their best dolls to sell during the holiday buying season. A nice example of one of the current offers is this one in the yellow outfit.
When Lucy and Ricky Ricardo of the very popular I Love Lucy television show produced “most famous baby in the world” the perfect tie in was a baby doll. Continue reading The Ricky Jr Doll