Democratic Sentinel, Volume 19, Number 49, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 December 1895 — The Largest Toy Factory. [ARTICLE]

The Largest Toy Factory.

The largest toy factory in the world is in New York, where playthings in tin are manufactured literally by the million. It stands five stories high, and out 1,607 distinct varieties of tin toys. No. lis a tin horse; 1,007 a tin menagerie. The output of circular tin whistles is 2,000,000 per annum. To make a tin horse twelve inches long dies have to be cast costing $75. The children of different countries have different tastes, but tin swords are wanted all over the world, the military Instinct being as universal in the nurseries as in the courts and cabinets of the World.