Johann Andreas Issmayer

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The Johann Andreas Issmayer company from Nuremberg produced tin toys from 1861 to around 1932 .

history

Johann Andreas Issmayer was born into a family of toy manufacturers and founded his company in Nuremberg in 1861. His brother Johann Konrad, who worked in the company, modeled plastic animals and human figures; these models were then formed from sheet metal, embossed and assembled. Initially, machine toys, doll kitchens and stoves, and swimming toys were produced. By 1870 animals and figures must have made up the majority of the production, in 1879 the production of railways began with a wide range of accessories as well as steam engines and drive models. The production was soon stopped again.

Issmayer became famous for the small, lightly lithographed railways that were operated by Bing and Georges Carette & Cie. were evicted. Before 1915, Karl Bub engaged in a lively product exchange with Issmayer as well as with Georges Carette & Cie. Issmayer died in 1922 at the age of 90. His son-in-law Georg Weißenberger took over the company, but died four years later. Now his son August Weißenberger took over the company and continued to run it successfully.

In 1932 the not Jewish, but export-dependent company got into a tailspin. Since the company had no domestic customers and the production for foreign countries could no longer be accepted by the Jewish publishers, production was stopped in 1935/36. The factory was converted into apartments. In 1952 August Weißenberger died at the age of 63. No surviving copies of the Issmayer catalog are known, so that his products are known today through reseller catalogs.

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