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Rosenthal-Weihnachtsteller 1921, designed by Jupp Wiertz Fettling cups at the Selb factory in 1956. Rosenthal GmbH is a German manufacturer of porcelain products and other household goods. The original firm was founded in 1879 in Selb, Bavaria. Since 2009, Rosenthal has been owned by the Italian company Sambonet Paderno Industrie (Arcturus ...
Albert Caasmann (2 June 1886 – 23 March 1968) was a German sculptor and porcelain artist. Caasmann designed toy figures for the Berlin toy company Lineol and from 1919 to 1952 was the lead designer and production manager for the company. He designed figurines for the porcelain companies Rosenthal AG and Volkstedt.
Selb is well known for its porcelain manufacture, and is the home of the Rosenthal factory, founded in 1879 by Philipp Rosenthal as a family business. In the 1960s the town was the location for an unrealized town development plan prepared by Walter Gropius shortly before his death. [ 3 ]
The CARS Program was implemented by the Department of Trade and Industry in order to attract and encourage new car companies to produce vehicles in the Philippines [15] and stimulate demand and impose industry regulations that will restore the country's automotive industry, and make the country a regional automotive manufacturing hub, [16] and ...
Kellerman (model cars) – German quality pressed steel cars and trucks, later taken over by Czech firm Kovap. Kenna Models British Manufacturer of 1:43 White Metal. Defunct. Morrises, etc. Kenner – Variety of plastic & diecast vehicles, particularly the Hot Wheels-like Fast 111s. Notable also are their plastic, solar powered 1:20 scale AMX ...
And suddenly you spot it: a box of Hummels, the collectible figurines that debuted in 1935 based on the illustrations of one Maria Innocentia Hummel, a German nun.
In the 1980s and 1990s, car and trucks were well proportioned and had interesting features, but models were a bit too heavy on details that could have been rendered more delicately or accurately. Chrome spears along the sides of 1950s cars, for example, were sometimes too thick and unrealistically embedded in grooves in the die-cast body.
Two adults are behind bars in Washington, D.C., after a 5-year-old girl was shot by her younger brother, who accessed an unsecured firearm.