Typical animals and trees - infant 'snap'
type game
A quick Google may lead you straight to the
Dubai-based (.ae = Arab Emirates) English language website,
despite the fact that the German firm is still there now at Schorndorf-Miedelsbach,
and on .de (= Deutschland), if you look harder.
While some image searches lead you straight
to a Hong Kong factory, apparently passing-off the [German] wooden-production
as theirs?
Other simple dexterity/matching games
It would seem that the parent in Germany
now formally called Dusyma Kindergartenbedarf GmbH, is the
wholesaler of products from around the world to the educational (and hospital?)
sectors in Germany and Europe, and may also be responsible for project
management of larger jobs - outfitting new schools, early-learning libraries or
hospital play-areas, worldwide?
A heard of elephants!
"The
self-developed and distributed Dusyma wooden and educational toys are mainly
produced in Germany and other European countries. Dusyma itself operates its
own production facilities in Schorndorf, Brandenburg and the Erzgebirge."
Dusyma Germany - Code of
Conduct
"Dusyma
develops, manufactures and supplies educationally valuable play and learning
material as well as room concept for children. Dusyma is the most innovative
designer of kindergardens and social institutions in the world."
Dusyma Dubai - Website
We had a set like this when we were kids!
Equally, while Google keeps sending me to
Dubai, that may be only a local thing? Like an Englishman in Nigeria Googling Walgreens and being redirected to the Boots branch in Fleet each time? Anyway,
the company is still run by Lulu Schiffler-Betz, the older Schiffler's daughter
by his first wife.
Ammunition for when you absolutely,
positively have to go nail-crazy!
The products in these images are finished
in the same fashion as the toy train in Joe Walton's sample-case, that is to
say glossy, flat colour with minimal wood-grain, they could also sit next to
products from Dregano or Tobar imports and be indistinguishable, unlike the
rough-cut stuff that made-up most of the case's contents.
The Logo/building block
Image;
Wikicommons
One hopes we will actually see much more of
wood (and tin-plate) in toys and playthings going forward, as we break-off from
our addictive love affair with polymers and while one also hopes there will be
a more sophisticated type of wooden toy for slightly older or more discerning children,
maybe (with higher production values) we could also see a return to compositions?
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