Condition Of Toys

CONDITION AND RESTORQATION
Toy boats and especially sailboats are rarely complete years after manufacture. The boxes were large and generally not colored and were not prized. Keystone did offer a box in a triangle configuration for sailboats which had the assembly instructions and could serve as a stand for the complete assembly Other boxes were offered for motor boats.. I have never seen good boxes for the Seaworthy Jacrim boats. In most collecting the original box adds about 1 ½ times the same boat without he box. Sails were mostly cotton material and prone to all kinds of disasters over time. I believe it is acceptable restoration to bend on sails of the correct size and material. Also using braded fishing line to simulate the string used
Masts and booms were of standard round stock. Early Seaworthy and then Jacrim boats were offered with tapered masts. As the years past the these parts were standard dowel sizes.
I am against painting, unless the boat hull color and stripe is totally worn off. The original decks were shellacked, not varnished and can be brought back with a careful wipe of denatured alcohol. The later decks were imprinted to look like a real deck, Shellac was still used..
The following seems to be generally in use:
C10 Mint- Looks new with no scratches and with all the original equipment and box
C9 Near Mint-Almost mint condition, shows a little wear and complete
C8 Excellent- Close to mint but with some scratches, probably not played with very much
C7 Fine-Toy as been played with but still looks good.
C6 Very Good would describe a close to excellent but lightly played with
C5 Good- Looks good and has been played with but kept clean and stored well. Probably has wear
C4 Fair- Any toy that has been played with and shows its age but is pretty complete, but has wear, and paint loss.
C3 Poor-Toy is in bad shape, little paint and well played with.
C2 Almost beyond recognition.
C1&2 Don’t