Kalmartrissan is a brand of

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which has been manufactured since 1932."Kalmartrissan" och andra "trissor"
, County Museum of Kalmar "Kalmartrissan snurrar vidare", ''

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'' 19 December 2012 (not available in the on-line edition) Kalmartrissan fyller 70 år
Sveriges radio, 25 January 2002, retrieved 22 March 2013 The company that makes it, Elfverson & Co., is located in Påryd, about from

Kalmar Kalmar (, , ) is a city in the southeast of Sweden, situated by the Baltic Sea. It had 36,392 inhabitants in 2010 and is the seat of Kalmar Municipality. It is also the capital of Kalmar County, which comprises 12 municipalities with a total of ...

in Småland, Sweden. In the early 1930s, Gösta Elfverson saw a yo-yo during a trip to

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, and brought the idea with him to Sweden, where the manager of Elfverson's factory developed a unique construction: the Kalmartrissan is made in wood and in a single piece, rather than two pieces that have been glued together. Känd trissa har spunnit i 70 år
'' Svenska Dagbladet'' 28 January 2002, retrieved 22 March 2013 The toy is manufactured from beech wood, and bears a logo depicting the Castle of Kalmar, one of the best kept

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castles in Europe. "Trissa" is a Swedish word meaning pulley, which is sometimes used informally for other round objects, including yo-yos. Between 150,000 and a million Kalmartrissan yo-yos are manufactured every year in Sweden.

References

External links

Kalmartrissan, official website
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