Faivre (F.V.)

Faivre was a French toy maker associated with the F.V. mark. An Antique Toy Collectors of America directory dates the firm to 1860 and describes mechanical tin toys, including a clockwork figure riding a tricycle. It says hand-painted model trains became important products and that the firm also made clockwork cars. The F.V. trademark was registered in 1876. The directory records a later takeover by the Edmond brothers and Fernand Lefevre, followed seven years later by Roussel and Dufnen as directors.

Faivre’s products also included hand-painted figures. A specialist account of French toy soldiers identifies F.V. with Faivre Edmond and lists soldiers, riders, firefighters and civilian scenes; it notes that some series used lithographed tin. The directory says the firm stopped after World War I, while the specialist account dates F.V. production to the end of the 1920s. Together, these accounts place the maker’s activity from the nineteenth century into the early twentieth century.