Music box

... music box! This music box, made of sturdy sheet steel and colorfully designed with a farm motif, encourages all farm and nursery residents to do a little dance to the tune of "Old MacDonald had a farm". How fast the dancers turn to the music and how loudly and happily they sing along with the song depends entirely on how smoothly your child turns the crank. In handling the music box, it thus easily trains its motor coordination in a playful way - probably with great fun and therefore quite persistent, so get ready for an earworm.

We do not want to tire of emphasizing how vanishingly small and soon probably completely disappeared the share of mechanical tin toys from European production is. Since the relocation of almost all tin toy production to the Far East, the remaining manufacturers in this country (as in the rest of Europe) are often left to fend for themselves. Some classics that were produced for decades have practically disappeared. The Düsseldorf-based Blechfabrik, for example, maintains production facilities not only near Nuremberg, but also in New Delhi and Shanghai, where it manufactures historical tin toys true to its motto of "preserving the historical gem". In order to fulfill this intention, the models are mainly handmade, if possible with the help of historical models and original stamping tools. What die Blechfabrik does not produce itself, it tries to preserve with the help of equally committed partners - as in the case of this toy, which is manufactured in the Czech Republic.