Archive for the 'Vintage Toys'
Visits to Museums
Here you will soon find little notes about the national museums to the thematic toy, automobile and aviation.
As a member of the Group of Friends of the Air Museum, I invite you now to visit the premises of the Museum in Alverca and the pole of Sintra.
In the category Aviation , Vintage Toys , Miniatures F1 , Museums Brief History of Toys
The first toy manufacturers in Europe emerged in the 18th century in southern Germany in the area of Bavaria. The city of Nuremberg became the center of the toy industry, which remains binding today as it hosts the largest annual toy.
Toys of the 19th century Nuremberg of King D Carlos I-D exposure on Carlos, a man of his time at the Coach Museum in Lisbon
The production of toys in sheet started in 1826 by the firm Hess, followed in 1859 to Märklin and Bing in 1865. A high capacity for innovation has led to the continuous improvement of reproductions of cars, boats and trains, and introducing mechanisms engines increasingly complex.
In the case of toys, and not objects for observation, many were damaged or destroyed by their young owners. This period of production of toys was the "Golden Age of Toys", and rare pieces survive to this day.
Between the two world wars are new toy manufacturers such as Citroen and Jouets de Paris in France and Triang Hornby and the UK. The emergence of new materials and development expertise has enabled the emergence of excellent reproductions of automobiles, airplanes, boats and trains.
The major development took place with the introduction of the casting of an alloy (the Zamak) in the production of toys, especially when playing cars. The Tootsietoys pioneered this technique, but the thumbnails so produced by Meccano and marketed under the name "Dinky Toys" from the '30s, revolutionizing the toy market.
In the early 50s, Japan became the largest toy manufacturer in plate, getting a great success, specially designed to produce items for sale in the vast U.S. market, while Europe is introducing the plastic on the thumbnails - which allow reproduction of their interiors, windows and exterior accessories - and moving parts - such as doors and hoods that open.
Claim in this period makes such as Lesney and Mettoy in England - which markets its miniatures with the name "Corgy Toys" - the Solido in France, Denmark and Tekno Mercury and Politoys in Italy and in Portugal in 1966 appears to Metosul.
The development of the plastics industry leads to the establishment of a new class of toys, kits entirely in plastic, much like the first rudimentary Frog, or Dawn Lindberg, now permit a faithful reproduction of automobiles, airplanes and boats, while modelers to display their "art" building and painting miniatures. But European companies, such as English and French Matchbox Airfix and Heller, quickly succumb to the Japanese Tamiya, Hasegawa and Fujimi.
In the 70s, there are several vendors, craft - the John Day and Auto Replicas in England, the FDS models 3J in Italy and Portugal, among others - who occupy an important niche market, to produce kits in resin or white metal car not addressed by the major manufacturers.
Commenced by that time the first productions of miniatures in Asian countries, heralding the reality that we live today: also the market of toys and miniatures is subject to market forces - and we saw since the closure of most of the manufacturers listed here and the transfer of manufacturing such toys to Asian countries.
