THIS LISTING IS FOR A KOHLER GERMANY WIND UP DUCK MOVING QUACKING.

THE DUCK WORKS AS TESTED BY SELLER AND IT MEASURES ABOUT 4 1/2 INCHES TALL. THE TIN LITHOGRAPHY IS QUITE NICE AND DETAILED AS WELL AS CLEN,BRIGHT AND EXHIBITING VIVID COLORS ACTION AS FOLLOWS: BEAK OPENS AND CLOSES AND QUACK AND WINGS FLAP AS WHEELS MOVE ON UNDERSIDE. DUCK WILL PAUSE TO QUACK THEN STOP AND MOVE ALONG WITH WINGS FLAPPING. STRONG SPRING, NO ISSUES.

In 1932 Georg Köhler founded the game and metal goods factory in Nuremberg. The Trademark became the three letters GKN intertwined standing in a triangle. The first animal figures were a frog and a bird, each lithographed and with clockworkmechanisms. Then came the dog with stick, ducks, squirrels and other tin toy figures. The friction and movement drives were bought by the company Gebrüder Bühler from Nuremberg. The outstanding feature is that the animals move like their real life counterparts.

1942: Georg Köhler dies and the Nuremberg entrepreneur Fritz Collischan takes over the company

1948: the production starts again properly because now are enough resources available

1954: production begins of the first plastic toys which initially were produced of sheet metal and plastic

1960: their range now includes 70 tin toys

1965: daughter Ute takes over the company after the death of her father

1997: the company closes under the strong pressure of the competition