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Dugu Miniautotoys
Dugu Miniautotoys was a brand of diecast metal models, mostly in 1:43 scale made in Varallo Sesia, Vercelli Province, Piedmont, Italy, north of Turin and west of Lake Orto. The company made models for the Carlo Biscaretti di Ruffia Automobile Museum in Turin (Museo dell'automobile Carlo Biscaretti di Ruffia, Torino). They were made from approximately 1961-1975, and perhaps a few years longer (Sweetman 2008).
==History and rationale==
In the early 1960s, Bartolomeo Chiodo, an auto enthusiast, named his company Dugu from the name of one of the two districts of Varallo Sesia that was Mr. Chiodo's home - 'Dugu' means owl (the other district was 'falcet' - meaning falcon; Sweetman 2008). So, 'Owl Models' was born in 1961 and the logo for the company became a stylized angular owl with large round yellow eyes. It is interesting that this follows somewhat of a tradition of other European toy companies naming named their lines after cute or diminutive animals (e.g. Corgi, Husky, or Budgie).
The first Dugu Miniautotoys were made by Stampopolastica for a year. In 1962, Stampopolastica started making its own models under the Rio name (Sweetman 2008). Chiodo then started making his own models and thus the Dugu line was similar in concept to Rio Models, Brumm, or Minialuxe in concept, making mainly Italian makes from the turn of the twentieth century for the Ruffia Automobile Museum. The models were mostly vehicles featured in the museum and sold in the museum store. 1970s collector Cecil Gibson stated that normal Dugus for retail sale were more complex, while the ones available for the Museum (the 'Museo' series) were less detailed, which seems 'cart before the horse' (Gibson 1971, p. 49). Still, the company was similar to the German Cursor Models or French RAMI by J.M.K. which mainly made models for the Mercedes-Benz Museum in Germany and, respectively, models in the Malartre collection in the Chateau Rochatailles in France.
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