Tin toy

The invention of sheet metal stamping machines in 1815 allowed for the mass production of inexpensive toys.

[4] France and England joined the fray and it wasn't long before hundreds of thousands of these penny toys were being manufactured.

A number of manufactures scrambled to catch up in the beginning of the 20th century, but it wasn't until after World War I, with anti-German sentiment high, that they began to make real gains.

Marx produced a huge number of designs and depended on large sales volumes to keep prices down.

The idea was to give Japan all of the low profit; high labor manufacturing and the US companies could sell the imported product.