Tin toys
Tin toys is a collective term for toys made from tinplate . This includes model trains and cars, but also various mechanical toys. However, for reasons of cost, modern toys are usually made of plastic , sometimes also of wood . The tin toy has therefore become rare and a collector's item; very high prices are sometimes paid for old pieces. The humming top is one of the classics that are still sold .
history
The first tin toys in Germany were probably produced in the 19th century by the Swabian manufacturer Rock & Graner , initially in factories , and from around 1890 in industrial mass production. For some time, German products were bestsellers around the world, with Nuremberg and the patent factory Ernst Paul Lehmann in Brandenburg an der Havel the leading production locations. That changed in the 1950s when Japan left its German competition behind.
Well-known tin toys / tin toys
- Railways
- Cars and motorcycles, e.g. B. from Schuco in Fürth
- Tractors and agricultural equipment, e.g. B. from KOVAP from the Czech Republic
- Model steam engines , e.g. B. from Wilesco in Lüdenscheid
- Airplanes and Zeppelins
- Carousels
- Magic lantern
- Ships
- Military toys
- Metal construction kit
- Animals, e.g. B. from GKN in Nuremberg
- Pedal cars
- Humming top
- robot
- Toys by Blomer & Schüler
See also
Web links
- Virtual tin toy museum
- Internet resource for antique tin toys & dolls
- Figures made of sheet metal and plush with clockwork
- A brief history of tin toys and a list of German tin toy manufacturers with logo and brief description
Individual evidence
- ↑ : sammeln-sammler.de tin toy manufacturer - A brief history of tin toys , Access 3 January 2010