- First , tin toys, mainly brands and PAYÁ RICO. Does not care if they are originals or replicas, because what it will attract is the quality of parts, its beauty and utility. Not interested in toys rusty, with mold, breakage and the like, but you gu sta
that look good without having to go to restore, as you want to display them and enjoy them . And the main
know, with respect to the tins, broken steel sheet coated with tin. If the steel provides strength, hardness and malleability, tin gives adhesion, gloss and resistance to corrosion. The implementation of tin spread throughout Europe in the late nineteenth century, although since the eighteenth century toys were manufactured in Germany with this material, specifically the city of Nuremberg. Furthermore, lithographic printing, so important to the success of tin toys, decorative technique was introduced as the year 1870. In Spain, the chromolithograph was used early in the decade of l
20's of last century, until then had been hand-painted toys. It referred specifically to toy trains, we can say that they have the same age as the real trains that began to circulate between 1830 and 1840, although only the top toy crawling on the floor, no roads. Well understood, at first toy trains built without attention to the scales and other details, but in the late nineteenth century German marks BING (1863 ) and introduced MÄRKLIN scale sizes for the trains and fixed measures for the rails. Subsequently, the British began to market a smaller size. With regard specifically to train in Spain tin, the first t
ren was manufactured by the firm Payá Brothers and in 1909, moved Drag and produced a kind of smoke coming from his chimney. The first electric train was built in 1930. Thomas gets his pieces at flea markets either through Internet sales, in antique shops or directly from individuals. It is very difficult to find these kinds of toys, especially if you're willing to pay what they want, but that is not possible as there is to know where to buy, because prices vary widely and vary greatly from place to place. The exchange with other collectors is not easy in these parts.
What we value most is the general collector of the train and its usefulness in the s
Photo No. 396: Albelda (Huesca). Celedonio García
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