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Article: Popular tin toys are always on the move
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- The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel (Milwaukee, WI)
- Article date:
- October 13, 1996
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CopyrightCopyright 1996 The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel. Provided by ProQuest LLC. (Hide copyright information)
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Tin toys have been popular since the middle of the 19th century.
Early tin toys were painted by hand, but by the 1890s lithography
made it possible to print designs on the metal.
Tin toys were made in the United States as well as Germany and
other European countries by 1915, and by the 1930s Japanese firms
were making the toys as well.
After World War II, the U.S. zone of occupation in Germany
included an area near Nuremberg where the toy factories had worked.
The factories were encouraged to make new toys, marked "U.S. Zone,
Germany," and sell them in the United States and Europe.
The U.S. troops occupying Japan also encouraged local factories to
begin making toys again, and the new ...