The top seller was a late 19th-century German composition and wood French Napoleonic Cavalry, which went for £10,912 to a US collector. Other notable sales included a mechanical shepherdess toy ...

More than 400 German toys dating from the 19th Century have sold at auction for almost £200,000. The collection of toys made out of wood, papier-mâché or composition in the Sonneberg and ...

The act of decorating a fir tree with ornaments ... stars in the night sky. German Christmas carols like "O Tannenbaum," written by Ernst Anschütz in the early 19th century, celebrated the ...