Toy Nomura Co. was founded in Tokyo, Japan in 1923 and, by the 1950s and ’60s, was one of the largest toy makers in Japan, before being bought out by Hasbro Inc. in 1993. Its products are generally (but not always, as you will soon see) identified by a stamped T.N inside a diamond.
Toy Nomura, like many other Japanese toy manufacturers, produced items for the American market and used toy importer, Cragstan Corporation, based in New York for distribution.
T.N produced a line of tin plate toy cars in the 1950s that included a very pleasing Volkswagen Cabriolet with the top down. The stamped tin body was painted either
