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  • KINKELDEY A GERMAN-AMERICAN STORY ABOUT VERY EARLY, GERMAN-MADE, SLATE MOULDS

    Gisbert Freber

    It was at the OTS Show in Chicago in 2008 when Don Pielin approached me about some very old slate moulds from Germany that he had discovered. These were designed to produce an interesting range of flat figures and related scenes. Soon afterwards, I had the opportunity to take a closer look at them. I… Read more

  • POLAR EXPEDITIONS IN THE PLAYROOM

    Steve Sommers

    Sixty years ago, excitement focused on a leap into Space, a journey to the moon, and then stepping out for a few brief moments before returning home. One hundred years earlier, like our “space race”, the world’s imagination had been captured by other scientific journeys. The most dramatic was probably the race to the Poles.… Read more