Collectors’ Corner

The first Stokys construction system did not use the hole spacing that became familiar to its customers. The Stockmann brothers’ original 1941 design placed the holes 10 mm apart. A leading toy retailer advised them to adopt the half-inch spacing already used by Meccano and Märklin. Stokys followed that advice. Half an inch is 12.7 mm, so this was a change to the geometry of the parts, not merely a…