413 - Three clockwork toys, Köhler cat with globe in box, tin duck, clown on rocking horse

Three clockwork toys, Köhler cat with globe in box, tin duck, clown on rocking horse Tin, composition and fabric, three clockwork toys, 1) cat of lithographed tin with globe, Georg Köhler Nuremberg, tabby with red collar, lying, without key, in front a tin globe with world map, underside inscribed “MADE IN U.S.-ZONE GERMANY”, in the original box with logo “GNK”, illustrations of the playing cat and print “MADE IN WESTERN GERMANY”, cat 5x9.5x10 cm (HxWxD), 2) waddling duck of lithographed tin, drake with blue-green head, yellow beak and colourful plumage, metal feet, underside inscribed “MADE IN U.S.-ZONE GERMANY” and “D.R.G.M.”, without packaging, without key, 7x9x4 cm (HxWxD), 3) clown on rocking horse, marked “P.W.”, clown of composition with white face, blue hair and red cheeks, pleated collar, fabric suit in red and green, on white rocking horse with black speckles, mane and tail of fibres, green rockers and clockwork with lever under the belly, 21x18.5x7 cm (HxWxD), played-with condition commensurate with age, clown's head crazed, horse's legs and chest cracked Georg Köhler founded a toy and metal goods factory in Nuremberg in 1932, whose trademark is the intertwined letters “GNK” in a triangle; the range consisted of mechanical animal figures, first a frog and a pecking bird, later a duck and a cat with clockwork. After Köhler's death in 1942 Fritz Collischan ran the business, which flourished from 1948 and closed in 1997; the Köhler cat with globe is a model from around 1950. The marking “U.S.-Zone Germany” identifies tin toys from the American occupation zone between 1945 and 1949. According to the logo list of tin toy manufacturers, the mark “P.W.” stands for Primus Wunderlich in Zschopau. Tin cat, tin duck and the clown with clockwork are wind-up toys, as collected as mechanical tin toys.