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Title: flats in Vienna?
Post by: Scott Johnson on June 12, 2016, 10:56:47 AM
Planning a visit to Vienna next year. Are there any flats stores or flats sold in muesum stores in that beautiful city? Or has the InterNet taken over?


Thanks.
Title: Re: flats in Vienna?
Post by: Mike G on June 12, 2016, 05:48:00 PM
I don't know if they sell flats but kober, owner of the old Wollner molds, at least used to have a shop there and worth a visit
Title: Re: flats in Vienna?
Post by: snagy on June 12, 2016, 06:45:33 PM

Hi Scott,
there is a nice small shop dedicated to flats just behind the Stephansdome: Zinnfiguren Böhm (Schulerstraße 7, 1010 Wien).
Best regards-
Sandor
Title: Re: flats in Vienna?
Post by: Scott Johnson on June 17, 2016, 05:08:30 PM
Sandor, thanks. I'll make note of the address and stop by the shop. It looks to be just a few blocks from where we will be staying.  :D
Title: Re: flats in Vienna?
Post by: Scott Johnson on May 16, 2018, 11:05:08 AM
Sandor,


Finally I am going to Vienna next weekend (starting May 26th), and will drop by the store.


Thank you again for the address.  :)
Title: Re: flats in Vienna?
Post by: marko on May 16, 2018, 01:01:53 PM
Scott,


As I was looking at these folks and their interesting catalog.  They have a Vienna address, I am not sure of a storefront.

https://www.zinnfigurenoffizin-kovar.info/kontakt.php (https://www.zinnfigurenoffizin-kovar.info/kontakt.php)

mark  8)

P.S. By the way have fun, everyone I have ever spoken mention the beauty of the city.
Title: Re: flats in Vienna?
Post by: Joerg on May 17, 2018, 02:15:15 AM
@ Folks,
Ewald Kovar passed away two years ago.
I am not sure, if his business is still running.
Title: Re: flats in Vienna?
Post by: Hannibal on May 17, 2018, 04:00:50 AM
With these changes and to maintain high interest to flats, especially the 30mm, someone well aare should review once the chapter related to the editors, and their link, and update them, adding comments where changed, passed away, gone, or transferred.

This will be useful to everybody; perhaps one of our high excellence members in Germany ....
We can send him what we know also to centralize

Or everyone keeps holding and updating, but at ONE single location.
For Jupiter Miniatures alo, the link is no longer existing; Hafer 's changed, Tappert is away, Trana, .....

Who would take this over for the next coming months to update, clean-up and do a new list? with internet link, email, address, a comment, date of change, deletion time (approx), ....

and redo perhaps every three years.....
Title: Re: flats in Vienna?
Post by: marko on May 17, 2018, 12:19:46 PM
Per an email Brigitte Kovar is still running the business, at least on an on-line basis.


mark  8)
Title: Re: flats in Vienna?
Post by: Scott Johnson on May 18, 2018, 10:04:13 PM
Assuming the shop Sandor referenced is still open I'll post a report on it when I return to the States in early June.
Title: Re: flats in Vienna?
Post by: plyoung on May 19, 2018, 04:15:46 AM

Dear Scott,
I don't know how long you intend to stay in Vienna but if you have time maybe you could visit Katzelsdorf, which, according to Google maps is about 40 - 50 miles drive south of Vienna.  I've never been there but that's where Scheibert 30mm flat figures are produced.  I've bought Napoleonics, 30 Years War and Scottish Highlanders from them at Kulmbach.  Some of the original moulds were engraved by Frank, Maier and Kovar.  Look at their website:www.zinnfigurenwelt-katzelsdorf.at


Best wishes,
Peter
Title: Re: flats in Vienna?
Post by: Scott Johnson on May 19, 2018, 10:35:48 AM
Thank you, Peter. We are staying in Vienna for four days which from what I have been reading will probably not be enough. However a short drive from the city to see something of the countryside (and the possibility of buying flats!) sounds inviting. 


Thanks again.  :)
Title: Re: flats in Vienna?
Post by: willie on May 19, 2018, 08:02:51 PM
Scott try and make it to the Austrian Military Museum in Vienna its outstanding  :o The World War I section is just amazing  :o Willie
Title: Re: flats in Vienna?
Post by: Scott Johnson on May 19, 2018, 09:45:31 PM
Willie,


Will do! As a retired History teacher this museum is a must see.


Thanks  ;D
Title: Re: flats in Vienna?
Post by: gerhard on May 20, 2018, 01:58:29 AM
Dear Scott
Zinnfiguren Böhm should be still in business.It is in the Schulerstrasse 7  near the Stephansdom. It is a shop for Zinnfiguren, but they have no website.Try to google them, there are some pictures on the web.And yes, visit the Zinnfigurenmusem Katzelsdorf. They also have the famous Vesely Figures (K.u.K. Armee in Parade, Fronleichnamszug) and the Figures from
an Doyen of Austrias Collectors Mr. Pohl (from old Germanics to Radetzky - many figures for Parade vor Feldmarschall Radetzky)Catalogs are to download on website.
Greetings
Title: Re: flats in Vienna?
Post by: Scott Johnson on May 20, 2018, 11:57:00 AM
Thank you, Gerhard.


So many wonderful suggestions! I am looking forward to my visit to Vienna.


(Also I received some wine suggestions: Gruner Veltliner, Blaufrankisch,and Spatburgunder. I'm glad there was a red included.  :o )


Scott
Title: Re: flats in Vienna?
Post by: gerhard on May 20, 2018, 02:18:21 PM
Scott I have forgotten: there is a interesting website www.scatting-nobility.at
It is a group of Collectors mainly in Vienna. If you have more questions, I think you will get help. (I am not from Vienna, but I met Mrs. Horejsi at a little modelling show in Styria this year.She also take painting orders, and she knows Mr. Urbanke, who cast the moulds of the late Mr. Kovar.Have a nice trip to Vienna.
Title: Re: flats in Vienna?
Post by: Scott Johnson on May 20, 2018, 03:17:01 PM
Gerhard,


I have  gone to the website. It looks like a very talented group of painters. I will see if I can make contact.


Thanks,


Scott
Title: Re: flats in Vienna?
Post by: Scott Johnson on June 12, 2018, 09:56:21 AM
Fellow collectors,


I went to the Vienna address given here below, and I regret to say there is no flats shop there. In fact, it appears there never was?  :(


(I did find a toy soldier shop in Vienna and London, but I doubt that is of interest to many on the Forum here.)
Title: Re: flats in Vienna?
Post by: willie on June 12, 2018, 07:17:03 PM
Scott it is interest to me  :o The toys soldier shop in Vienna and I think I know the one in London :o Willie
Title: Re: flats in Vienna?
Post by: snagy on June 12, 2018, 11:26:06 PM
This is the shop I was writi8ng about earlier.
Behind the StefansDom, on Schülrstrasse 7:


(http://www.intflatfigures.org/BFFS/gallery/12/2574-120618232054.jpeg)
(http://www.intflatfigures.org/BFFS/gallery/12/2574-120618232133.jpeg)


Actually I was not there this year, but last autumn it was still existing.
Sandor
Title: Re: flats in Vienna?
Post by: gerhard on June 13, 2018, 05:39:50 AM
So Zinnfiguren Böhm is not in Business anymore? Very Bad News.
The Toy Soldier Shop should be Spielwaren Kober www.kober.co.at
They have the Wollner Figures.


Title: Re: flats in Vienna?
Post by: gerhard on June 13, 2018, 06:09:03 AM
I just called Mr. Böhm on Telephone.

The Shop ist open at the Moment.
Title: Re: flats in Vienna?
Post by: snagy on June 13, 2018, 01:38:51 PM
Hi Gerhard!
It is a good news about Kober!
I was looking for this shop on the usual place on the Graben and I did not found it!
I thought that they went out of busines - and I was very sorrow about it!
Next time (this autumn) I shall visit them in their new location on the Schülerstrasse!
Br.
Sandor
Title: Re: flats in Vienna?
Post by: Scott Johnson on June 13, 2018, 06:25:33 PM
How did I miss the shop??????  :-[


I guess that I will have to return to Vienna (which I hope to do anyway)