Tin toys

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KOVAP tin toy tractor Hanomag R 40

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

Tin toys as a motif frame

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

The Baade 152 , when the model was built, the original was not yet airworthy
More recent carousel made of sheet metal

See also

Web links

Commons : Tin Toys  - Collection of pictures, videos, and audio files
Wiktionary: Tin toys  - explanations of meanings, word origins, synonyms, translations

Individual evidence

  1. : sammeln-sammler.de tin toy manufacturer - A brief history of tin toys , Access 3 January 2010