Schleich’s engravers still work in the city where company founder Friedrich Schleich first produced respiratory masks and then toy figures after the Second World War. The toy manufacturer’s employees use their burins to realistically carve individual muscles of horses, lions and giraffes into wax models – zoology books in front of them and movement studies of the animals on the screen. But the days in the workshops in Schwäbisch Gmünd are numbered. The company plans to give up its headquarters in East Württemberg at the end of the year.
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