Collectors’ Corner

Tenshodo was an established Ginza business long before it sold its own model trains. Founded in Tokyo in 1879 as a seal shop, it added watches and jewellery in the 1880s and began importing Swiss and American watches in 1889. Its company chronology dates the start of sales of its own railway models to 1949. Model railways became another branch of a business already associated with precision objects. The work…