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Elastolin is a trademark used by the German company O&M Hausser (O&M Haußer) for the toy soldiers and other types of figures it manufactured from composition and later from plastic. The Hausser firm was founded in 1904 by Christian Hausser and his sons Otto and Max.
Hausser continued to use the brand name Elastolin when it began production of figures in a hard polystyrene plastic in 1955 (production of figures in the older sawdust-based composition material continued). In the years that followed the company produced Roman soldiers, Huns, Vikings, Normans, Elastolin Landsknecht and 17th-century Turks. Hausser-Elastolin also manufactured personality figures of Prince Valiant and at least one or two other characters from the popular comic strip and feature film. Some of the old figure lines -- Medieval figures, "Trappers" (cowboys), American Indians were also manufactured in plastic. Hausser had exclusive rights to produce figures for the works of Karl May, a German author whose tales of the American Elastolin Wild West Figures captured the imaginations of several generations of German boys, and so there are plastic figures representing several of May's best-known characters. Along with these figures came an impressive new line of catapults, siege towers, a battering ram, camp fences, and early artillery pieces. See our great selection of these detailed figures: Elastolin Huns & Vikings Elastolin Landsknecht |
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