Guntermann toys

S.G. Gunthermann history

Nuremberg, Germany, 1877 - 1965.

Gunthermann began producing mechanical toy cars in 1898 and also a number of comic and character tin wind-ups in the early 1960s.

When the founder Sifried Gunthermann died in 1890, his widow married Adolph Weigel. Toys from that period on bore makers mark with a shield inside circle and initials A.S.G.W. Wiegels initials were removed following his death in 1919.

The company was acquired by Siemens in 1965.