Hi all,

I got today many Märklin catalogs which I bought some days ago. I had already before many catalogs, but today None of them are really old, but might be interesting for someone as there are SF (Finland), SV (Sweden), D (Germany), DK (Denmark) and DI (Germany) catalogs. I have also many newer, but I tought that this 1989 is a good ending as it is 25 years old catalog. Maybe all of these are too new to this "Collector´s Corner", but I decided to post this list anyway... I am interested in to know what those letters in the end means? I know the month and year thing like 07 68 = July 1968, but what about the letters? From 1982 => there are "fi" in the end. Does it mean that these were printed in Finland ? Also many newer 1989 => 2004 catalogs have that "fi" in the end, but not the very newest ones.

• 1961/62 SF mk 6-pages only ”Märklin sen olla pitää” 162 81 – TNA 07 61 th (in English "Märklin it should be")
• 1962/63 D without covers (I searched from my .pdf files the right catalog year)
• 1963/64 D DM 151 01 – LON 06 63 th
• 1967/68 SF mk 152 81 – A 07 67 th
• 1968/69 SF only covers 150 80 – K 07 68 th
• 1968/69 DK nkr 150 62 – TY 07 68 th
• 1968/69 DK dkr 150 61 - YO 07 68 th
• 1968/69 SF price list Ya 06 69 ju
• 1969 D o.P. 151 00 – IN 07 69 th with price list
• ”Märklin uutuudet 1969” SF 154 81 – A 02 69 ka (in English "Märklin new items 1969")
• 1971 SV 150 50 – RN 06 71 mo
• 1973 SV 150 50 – AL 07 73 kl
• 1973 DI 150 01 – RAN 07 73 kl
• 1974 DI 151 01 – ATTa 07 74 br + 2 DI price lists KYN 05 74 ju
• 1975 SV 150 50 – AY 06 75 th + SF pricelist 1975
• 1975 DI 150 01 – RNN 06 75 th
• 1976 D 151 00 – LNN 06 76 th
• 1977 D 150 00 – KKR 06 77 th + D price list LNN 06 77 ju
• 1978 D 151 00 – KYA 06 78 th
• 1979 SV 150 50 – MK 06 79 th
• 1979 D 150 00 - ... 06 79 th
• 1980 D 151 00 – KTC 06 80 th + D price list KNN 06 80 ka
• 1981 SV 150 50 – MO 06 81 th
• 1981 D 150 00 – ROK 06 81 th
• 1982/83 D 151 00 – ROK 06 82 fi + SV price list 1982
• 1983/84 D 150 00 – ARA 07 83 fi + D price list
• 1984/85 SV 151 50 – OR 07 84 fi + SF Märklin price list 1984 and 2 ”Svenska modeller från Märklin” 1984/85 SV 175 01 – MT 08 84 ga
• 1984/85 D 151 00 – AON 07 84 fi
• 1985/86 D 150 00 – ATR 07 85 fi
• 1986/87 D 151 00 – MKM 07 86 fi
• 1987/88 SF 150 80 – TN 06 87 fi
• 1988/89 SV 151 50 – La 08 88 fi
• 1988/89 D 151 00 – YAI 08 88 fi

Thank you very much from any help and info about the catalog coding. Markus Schild can maybe help and Markus can see from this list also some other Finnish SF catalogs now when I got them today. Previously I had only 1987/88 SF 150 80 – TN 06 87 fi catalog and it is in like new mint condition .

Regards,
Janne

I love the old catalogues. Sorry can't answer your question though. I have the ones from 1952 to about 1971. The period of Marklin that I am interested in. Not only for the rolling stock but for spare parts lists and layout plans which are I some of them.

Markus already answered that the letters at the end are an abbreviation for the print office, so fi does not mean printed in Finland... "fi" stands for J.Fink, Ostfildern. Some of my catalogs are in very good condition and some are not. I also read mostly my catalogs in .pdf format as I have all Märklin catalogs from 1935-1955 in German and from 1949? (not sure) to 1979 in English. I got them on DVD and copied them to my computer. It is really fast way to find things when browsing catalogs in .pdf format vs. paper catalogs and the best thing is that the old paper catalogs don´t get to bad condition and can stay almost untouched.

Thanks Markus. So they were not printed in Finland then . Are the other letters for the pcs. printed as I found some older topic from this Collector´s Corner where there was mentioned something about this?

Janne

My catalogues are the English language ones and vary in condition from fair to good.. All bought off eBay over the years. The value is in personal satisfaction rather than money. I started in Marklin in 1953.....

I hope you didn't have to pay for the DVD. I have all Marklin catalogs from about 1935 to 2012 in pdf format. Most of those I scanned myself. I made them available freely on the internet to share with the Marklin community, but certain schmucks were downloading the catalog files, burning them to DVD then selling them at a profit, without acknowledging where they came from and who scanned them. Because of this I had to take them off the internet.

I'd be interested in seeing a list of the file sizes of the pdf files that you have.

Edited by user 22 March 2014 11:48:11(UTC)  | Reason: Not specified

Yes, I paid 15 euro for them... Here are the file sizes of those .pdf files:

German Catalogs:

1930 = 220 826 KB
1931 = 210 998 KB
1932 = 271 376 KB

1933-1934 = 250 647 KB
1934-1935 = 205 860 KB
1935-1936 = 227 349 KB

1936 Spur 00 = 1591 KB

1936-1937 = 238 106 KB
1937-1938 = 68 672 KB

1937 Spur 00 = 27 343 KB

1938-1939 = 72 661 KB (smaller file size)

1938 Spur 00 = 8458 KB

1938-1939 = 307 398 KB (another larger file size one)

1939 Spur 00 = 67 916 KB

1940 = 3791 KB
1947 = 107 242 KB
1950 = 11 795 KB
1953 = 40 777 KB
1954 = 41 190 KB
1955 = 40 765 KB

Next I will post a list of my English Märkin catalogs in .pdf format.

Regards,
Janne

Hi,

Here are my English Märklin catalogs file sizes:

1949 = 82 015 KB
1950 = 46 334 KB
1951 = 41 582 KB
1952 = 44 612 KB
1953 = 72 223 KB
1954 = 37 365 KB
1955 = 82 727 KB
1956 = 49 558 KB
1957 = 22 980 KB
1958 = 42 360 KB
1959 = 35 120 KB

1960-1961 = 101 756 KB
1961-1962 = 24 160 KB
1962-1963 = 17 269 KB
1963-1964 = 17 600 KB
1964-1965 = 30 259 KB
1965-1966 = 53 240 KB
1966-1967 = 58 979 KB
1967-1968 = 69 923 KB
1968-1969 = 142 940 KB

1969 = 146 631 KB
1970 = 56 518 KB
1971 = 38 168 KB
1972 = 41 585 KB
1973 = 67 623 KB
1974 = 69 159 KB
1975 = 67 434 KB
1976 = 61 612 KB
1977 = 63 108 KB
1978 = 67 220 KB
1979 = 92 655 KB

I hope these lists will help you. I wrote these two messages with my iPad . I would like to have newer 1980 => Märklin catalogs in English. Where could I get them?

Many thanks in advance!

Regards,
Janne