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Tipp & Co. Toy Catalog, c1937 [187266]

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Tipp & Co. Toy Catalog, c1937 [187266]
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150.00USDto d*******f+ buyer's premium (37.50)
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Tipp & Co./Nurnberg, softcover toy catalog, c1937. 53pp. Numerous black & white illustrations of tinplate toys for sale, with descriptions in German, English, Italian, Spanish and French. This catalog was produced during a transition time during WWII, when Tipp & Co. was being run by the German government. Technical data includes dimensions, weight, etc., and retail-prices in German currency. Features a variety of models of bi-planes, airplanes, airships, trams, dancing dog, tip-carts, trucks, military moto-cars, firing guns, mine throwers, searchlight cars, tanks, militar-lastwagens, fire ladder trucks, motorcycles, roadsters, train engines, etc. Very light finger smudge on cover, otherwise very fine. RARE.
Tipp & Co., also known as Tippco, was founded in 1912 in Nuremberg, Germany. Acquired by Philip Ullmann in 1919, Tipp & Co. became famous in the '30s for its high-quality toy cars. It produced airplane bombers with working bomb doors and some of the first battery-operated cars with front headlights. Ullman, being Jewish, was forced to leave Germany with the rise of Nazism in 1933. Tipp & Co. continued to produce toys with a transition director, who was employed by the German government. Ullmann fled to England where he founded Mettoy (1933 to 1983), the original manufacturer of Corgi toys. Ullmann returned to Germany to recover his company after the war. With the end of the war, Tipp & Co. produced detailed and high quality tin toys of common civilian aircraft. The company ceased production in 1971. [ Germany b