‘Les Clés De Notre Enfance’, a scarf created between 1991 and 1992, features a seaplane in the top right-hand corner.
Here is the enlargement
This very realistic image was drawn from a photo in David Pressland’s book, The Art of the Tin Toy, New Cavendish Books, London, 1975, page 192.
The toy from the David Pressland Collection
This is a Distler toy produced in Nürnberg in 1932 for the British market.
Lithographed sheet metal, clockwork mechanism.
The central propeller turns and drives the seaplane over the water.
43.5 x 38 cm
Could Johann Distler have imagined that sixty years later one of his childish creations would be adorning elegant women?