History
The miniature sibling to the standard Wonder Toy, produced alongside it during the 1928–1929 peak of Flores Yo-Yo Company production. It shares the same one-piece hand-lathed wood construction and Pedro Flores’s defining loop-axle slip string, which enabled the yo-yo to sleep freely at the string’s end.
Museum documentation characterizes the mini as having “a very very thin gap,” a consequence of its reduced diameter relative to the standard model. Colorways follow the same painted-wood tradition with ink-stamped “Big F” branding, including a noted gray-blue with blue ink stamp variant and a red with black ink stamp variant.
Among the rarest surviving Flores specimens; condition grade 7/10 examples have been valued by collectors at approximately $750.
