Saturday, December 2, 2017
Overcast and Un-seasonally Warm
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Overcast and Un-seasonally Warm
3C 38 F
An Easy Way to Identify
a Bing Toy
Below:
Bing German Tin Large 11 Inch (280 mm) Open Limousine.
Period driver not original to car but looks good, missing an arm. GBN mark.
Below:
Bing Open Tourer Limousine 9 inches (228 mm) with Driver.
Fine working German tin toy
The above scanned image is from the 1912 Bing Catalogue.
The image is of the Bing logo that was lithographed on Bing toys.
The blue arrows in the 2 photos below are pointing
to the Bing logo at the back of the 2 toy cars.
The History of the Bing Toy Company
Bing or Gebrüder Bing ("Bing brothers") was a German toy company founded in 1863 in Nuremberg, Germany by two brothers, Ignaz Bing and Adolf Bing, originally producing metal kitchen utensils, but best remembered for its extensive lines of model trains and live steam engines. Ignaz is also known for his discovery and development of the Bing Cave, a show cave in Germany.
The company produced fine pewter and copper tableware before embarking on toy production in 1880, their first teddy bears were released in 1907. By the early 20th century, Bing was the largest toy company in the world, and Bing's factory in Nuremberg was the largest toy factory in the world. Although Bing produced numerous toys, it is best remembered today for toy trains and liver steam-powered toys. In addition to toys it made scientific and educational novelties, and a huge range of kitchenware, tableware, office equipment, record players, electrical goods and so on.
The "Nuremberg Style" of manufacturing toys on steel sheets with lithographed designs that were stamped out of the metal, formed, and assembled using tabs and slots, was perfected by Bing. This manufacturing method remained in widespread use well into the 1950s, long after the Bing company had been dissolved.*
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