Hausser Elastolin 1933 Catalogue

Here are some pages of the 1933 Hausser Elastolin catalogue.
These are only 3 with animals.

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So this is the kind of plastic animals my grandma or grandpa would play with! Wow thanks for the share!

QuollMate wrote:

So this is the kind of plastic animals my grandma or grandpa would play with! Wow thanks for the share!

I am sure that these are composition models, not plastic .
As far as I know, plastic was not widely used untill after World War II, - I still remember when it was considered new for dayly use, and I was borne in 1952

SUSANNE wrote:

QuollMate wrote:

So this is the kind of plastic animals my grandma or grandpa would play with! Wow thanks for the share!

I am sure that these are composition models, not plastic .
As far as I know, plastic was not widely used untill after World War II, - I still remember when it was considered new for dayly use, and I was borne in 1952

Yes, plastic toy figures didn't start until after WW2, and with the honourable exception of a small toy soldier company called 'Malleable Mouldings' circa 1947-50 and Zang/Herald (later bought out by Britains) from 1952, they were all rather crude and cartoony.

Good quality moulding and paintwork plastic soldiers/animals/whatever weren't common until about 1956/7.

Like Susanne, I was also born in 1952, and by the time I was old enough to play with such toys, which would have been about 1956/7, most shops were stocking plastic, but there were still a lot of lead figures too (in the UK, composition was more of a German thing). By about 1962 there were very few lead figures left, and they tended to be in the bigger, more expensive, toy shops.

Great information, Dave