GERMAN TOYS RETURN.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LIX, Issue 18175, 22 August 1922, Page 10

GERMAN TOYS RETURN.

DISPLAYS AT LONDON FAIR.

For the first- time since the war the organisers of tho London Fair and Market, a trade exhibition for toys, jewellery, hardware, and fancy goods, decided to throw their doers open to the ex-enemy errantries, arid from Berlin, Hamburgh

Bavaria, Nuremberg, Elberfeld, Bremen, and other places there came a. prompt invasion of the Koyal Agricultural Hal!, Isr lington, where the show was held at the beginning of last month. Germany's effort to regain her ancient supremacy in the toymakiug -world is bold and undisguised, and, if appearances count tor anything, she ig already -well on the road to recapturing the British' market, says the Loudon Tunes. The tov stands are the strongest part of the £ah% and 75 per cent, of the exhibits are- German. Even some of the British firms show nothing else. ;ind by way of explanation they state that the British manufacturer could not produce many of the goods at all, and, even if ho could, he could not do it so cheaply. These wholesalers further state that they find that the public objection to German products has practically disappeared. Some of the toys bear the familiar inscription, " Made in Germany " but the majority do not. The German manufacturer, it seems, has his own special designs tor the English market. Consequently, the Nuremberg doll is indistinguishable from her English sister, and the Sonnebcrs; teddy bear bears a strong family resemblance to his Eaat London brother. Manufacturers rind that there is ',',' substantially little difference in jvri<*> between the German toy and the British toy in which any metal is emplovcd, this being explained by the price Germany is compelled to pay for the raw material which she imports. The German toy, of ■whatever make, is appreciably dearer than it was this time last year. In addition to German toys, there wa* al*o a plentiful display of German porcelain and miscellaneous woodwork, and one o£ the quaintest anomalies of the show v,-aJS tile presence of a British V.C. as a gasman on a stand selling German clocks- Among the other foreign countries represented by individual manufactures were France, Belgium, Switzerland Italy. Japan. &*> United States, and