The Lindner Catalogue
Toy Catalogue
1840-1842 (printed)
1840-1842 (printed)
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Until the 20th century the centre of the toy making industry was firmly fixed in Germany. Salesmen and manufacturers’ agents travelled from fair to fair carrying samples of toys and dolls to show to potential customers. This was often difficult particularly when the samples were heavy. The first agent known to have produced a catalogue of illustrated toys, in 1803, was Georg Bestelmeier of Nuremberg. It consisted of individual pages, which were used to illustrate and advertise toys and were easy to carry and send. This toy catalogue is a bound volume of sample pages from the firm of Eduard and Louis Lindner of Sonneberg dating from 1840-1842. Catalogues like this are extremely rare and are important because they not only show the range of items available in the 1840s but also the price of each one.
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| Title | The Lindner Catalogue (popular title) |
| Materials and techniques | Printed paper |
| Brief description | Colour illustrated toy catalogue published in Germany by Louis & Eduard Lindner in the early 1840s |
| Physical description | 120 sheets of hand coloured lithographs and etchings illustrating toys sold by the German firm of Eduard and Louis Lindner of Sonneberg. . |
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| Credit line | Given by A. K. Sabin |
| Summary | Until the 20th century the centre of the toy making industry was firmly fixed in Germany. Salesmen and manufacturers’ agents travelled from fair to fair carrying samples of toys and dolls to show to potential customers. This was often difficult particularly when the samples were heavy. The first agent known to have produced a catalogue of illustrated toys, in 1803, was Georg Bestelmeier of Nuremberg. It consisted of individual pages, which were used to illustrate and advertise toys and were easy to carry and send. This toy catalogue is a bound volume of sample pages from the firm of Eduard and Louis Lindner of Sonneberg dating from 1840-1842. Catalogues like this are extremely rare and are important because they not only show the range of items available in the 1840s but also the price of each one. |
| Bibliographic reference | Catherine Ann Hill, The Lindner Catalogue: German Toys of the Nineteenth Century. RCA Object essay, 8 January 2018. Copy available in the V & A Museum of Childhood Library.
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| Accession number | MISC.3-1957 |
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| Record created | January 8, 2003 |
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