Good morning everyone,
As I said a couple of weeks back, I picked up a few interesting tinplate items. The first of these is a Loma set. Loma was an Austrian manufacturer in the early post war years based in Vienna. There is a short entry on them on the Binn’s Road site and a decent write up about them on a booklet printed a few years ago which goes into the history of Austrian tinplate, which I cannot find at the moment. You can find Loma items every so often at some of the second hand shops in Vienna or on the auction lists of the Dorotheum, a famous Vienna auction house, akin to Sotheby’s. One interesting note is that I rarely see Loma pieces with great paint. Like other tinplate pieces these were not primed and I feel this contributes to the paint loss.
Miketg
