It worked better than they had expected and Japan became a tin toy manufacturing force until the end of the 1950s.
At the first auction I went to, the opening price for a group of tin toys dropped to $5.
After the war, tin toys were produced in large numbers in Japan.
Germany was the major producer of tin toys in the world in the early 20th century.
When the company started in 1912, it made unique clockwork tin toys (Johnson 1998, p. 210).
In the 1960s cheaper plastic and new government safety regulations ended the reign of tin toys.
Children shouted and begged for cheap tin toys their mothers usually couldn't afford.
German tin toys, plates and other products from about 1900 to 1920 or so were often marked Ges.
It tells the tale of two wind-up tin toys who end up having a race with destiny.
Dockerty picked up a tin toy and looked at it consideringly.