Georges Carette
Georges Carette & Cie. was a German manufacturer of tin toys .
The company was founded in 1886 by Georges Carette (1861–1954), a French who had settled in Nuremberg . In the beginning he acted as a supplier for the toy manufacturer Bing before he began to produce independently. In 1893, at the World Columbian Exposition in Chicago , he presented his own development, a toy tram , which caused a stir because it was electrically powered.
Via Paul Josephtal , whom Carette had taken on as a business partner, he made contact with the British model railway manufacturer Bassett-Lowke , for whom he produced models of locomotives and wagons based on British models that met the particularly high demands of British buyers in terms of realism and scale .
Since around 1905, the product range also included toy cars and ship models with clockwork drives, airplanes , airships as well as optical and technical toys. All of the toys manufactured by Carette are highly valued for their quality.
Since Georges Carette had remained a French citizen although he had married a German , he had to leave Germany when the First World War broke out. He and his wife settled in Chantilly north of Paris , where he died on January 8, 1954 at the age of 93. The company was initially continued by Paul Josephtal, but when he was drafted as captain in 1917 , production was stopped and the company was dissolved. The production facilities were taken over by a subsidiary of the competing manufacturer Bing. At least some tools also went to Bassett Lowke, proven for example for a six-axle dining car in track 0, which was produced with the imprint "Bassett Lowke Northampton" in the colors of the LMS, which was only founded in 1923.
At Georges Carette & Cie. Manufactured toys are now very popular among collectors and some of them achieve high prices; this is especially true for model steam engines and for the car models.
literature
- Huber, Rudger: tin toys. Cars - motorcycles. Weltbild 1995, ISBN 3-8289-0794-6 .
- Allen, Levy: The Great Toys of George Carette. New Cavendish Books, London, 1975, facsimile of the 1905 edition, ISBN 978-0904568028 .
- Baecker, Carlernst / Haas, Dieter / Jeanmaire, Claude / Väterlein, Christian (eds.): The other Nürnberger - technical toys from the good old days , Volume 1, a compilation of old catalogs from Karl Bub, Joh. Distler KG, Georges Carette & Cie, Doll & Cie , Frankfurt am Main 1973; Vol. 5, Karl Arnold, Karl Bub, Georges Carette, Moses Kohnstam (Moko), R & GN, Schuco (Schreyer & Co) , Frankfurt am Main 1976
- Rampini Paolo, The Golden Book of Toycars 1900–1980, Edizioni PR, 2004.
Individual evidence
- ^ Arbitral Commission on Property, Rights and Interests in Germany (ed.): Decisions of the Arbitral Commission on Property, Rights and Interests in Germany , Volume 5, 1962 (p. 24)