About
The workshop was opened in 1952 by a toolmaker who had spent the war years pressing anything but toys, and wanted to go back to making them.
Nuremberg had been the toy city of Europe for centuries, and when the big factories turned to plastic, a handful of small workshops kept pressing tin. Ours was one of them. The founder's dies and litho plates are still in the drawers, and some of the toys we make today come from the same tooling.
It is a family workshop of three: one who presses and prints, one who builds and repairs the clockwork, and one who keeps the shop and answers the post. We take on as much as three pairs of hands can finish without hurrying.
That a toy runs sweetly and survives being played with. That a restored toy keeps its own tin and its own litho wherever possible. That the old Nuremberg way of making — print flat, press, fold, wind — is still here to be seen. We would rather make one good toy than a crate of quick ones.
We are not a toy shop and we do not sell plastic or battery toys. If you are after the latest thing, we are cheerfully the wrong workshop.