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Hi all, I would like to share this great site with historical vintage catalogs. Filled with tons of old toys, modeltrains, slot cars....  The site has something for everyone, even my wife likes it.  LINKMarco     |
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 Joined: 27/07/2009(UTC) Posts: 5,862 Location: Leesburg,VA.USA
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Thanks, Marco. It was always fun to look through the new Sears catalog every year. Great stuff! Also, the famous FAO Schwartz store had a nice catalog too and they sold Märklin. Peter  
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Joined: 27/06/2012(UTC) Posts: 3,478 Location: Holland
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Hi Peter, Yes indeed, I found it, some Faller houses too. Marco  |
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Joined: 09/12/2011(UTC) Posts: 2,533 Location: VA
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Is it wrong that this appeals to me more than any advertisement I see today?
Wonderful, thanks for posting these.
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Joined: 27/07/2009(UTC) Posts: 5,862 Location: Leesburg,VA.USA
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Yes, Brandon. You're right. Advertising back then was much more magical. Peter Great! Thanks, Marco. Peter
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 Joined: 25/08/2012(UTC) Posts: 254 Location: South East
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Excellent! Thanks for the link. In the UK the common catalogues when I was a kid were Freemans and Littlewoods. I think my mum had both and I used to scour the toy/model sections for hoped for Christmas presents. Right... honesty time guys... how many of you as kids used to secretly check out the lingerie section in your Mums catalogue when she was out of the house?   Paul |
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 Joined: 31/12/2010(UTC) Posts: 3,999 Location: Paremata, Wellington
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Originally Posted by: kweekalot  Hi Peter,
Yes indeed, I found it, some Faller houses too.
Marco
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That's an interesting Start Set advertisement, Märklin never released (catalogued) a small entry-level Start Set mixing Freight and Passenger around the time this would have been released (1967). I'd love to see how they packaged it? My guess is they started with a 2955 Passenger set (the freight set of that time had a 3000 loco), added in the 4503 & 4513 freight wagons, 7390 crossing and three additional 5016 straight track sections and then the Tunnel, buildings trees etc. Quite a good bundle of gear to get started with. And the price, compared with say the Aurora 4-line racing set, these were pretty much top of the range in those categories so I guess it was a lucky child indeed who found a nice big box like that under their tree. In the 60's, as a child I would drool over the toy section of comics such as 'Archie' where the range of toys could only be dreamed of. We certainly had toys and I never felt deprived, but I was always aware that overseas the range was so much wider, and yet compared to some other countries at that time, and perhaps even today we probably still had a relatively good assortment. Cheers Cookee |
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Hi friends, I believe it was common for dealers to take Marklin sets and bundle them together with layout accessories so that the task of constructing a realistic layout was less daunting for hobbyists. A.B. Boyd Co, the exclusive Marklin distributor for the western 11 states of the American market did this in the 1960s. I was lucky to get all the paperwork from the hobby store, probably gathered when it closed down. Here are some scans:    Best regards, Paul |
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Originally Posted by: CCS800KrokHunter3 Hi friends,
I believe it was common for dealers to take Marklin sets and bundle them together with layout accessories so that the task of constructing a realistic layout was less daunting for hobbyists. A.B. Boyd Co, the exclusive Marklin distributor for the western 11 states of the American market did this in the 1960s. I was lucky to get all the paperwork from the hobby store, probably gathered when it closed down. Here are some scans:
Best regards,
Paul If I ask my father would never remember but I think that was the case with my first set where I did get one extra boxed tanker -and I think the manual level crossing- BUT in the Primex set with two flat cars they included inside a 4040 passenger car. Without the box to my annoyance, something I always resented because I was box mad since I was 4 or 3!
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Joined: 31/12/2010(UTC) Posts: 3,999 Location: Paremata, Wellington
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Originally Posted by: CCS800KrokHunter3 Hi friends,
I believe it was common for dealers to take Marklin sets and bundle them together with layout accessories so that the task of constructing a realistic layout was less daunting for hobbyists. A.B. Boyd Co, the exclusive Marklin distributor for the western 11 states of the American market did this in the 1960s. I was lucky to get all the paperwork from the hobby store, probably gathered when it closed down. Here are some scans:
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Best regards,
Paul Thanks Paul, interesting stuff. I find it amusing how they spell M'A'RKLIN and M'a'rklin, the full upper case I can understand, but the lower case one?, makes you wonder if they did not understand what an umlaut was, even much earlier in the century at least Richard Maerklin got around it ok. Cheers Steve |
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Joined: 22/01/2012(UTC) Posts: 1,047
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Originally Posted by: cookee_nz Originally Posted by: CCS800KrokHunter3 Hi friends,
I believe it was common for dealers to take Marklin sets and bundle them together with layout accessories so that the task of constructing a realistic layout was less daunting for hobbyists. A.B. Boyd Co, the exclusive Marklin distributor for the western 11 states of the American market did this in the 1960s. I was lucky to get all the paperwork from the hobby store, probably gathered when it closed down. Here are some scans:
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Best regards,
Paul Thanks Paul, interesting stuff. I find it amusing how they spell M'A'RKLIN and M'a'rklin, the full upper case I can understand, but the lower case one?, makes you wonder if they did not understand what an umlaut was, even much earlier in the century at least Richard Maerklin got around it ok. Cheers Steve Hi, strictly speaking I don't know what it means myself, also don't have that key on my computer unless I enter a code. An American typewriter probably didn't have it either and they might have used the closest thing they have to represent the symbol. Alex
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Joined: 09/04/2012(UTC) Posts: 1,343 Location: Southwest Ohio
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Matt
Era 3
DB lokos, coaches and freight cars from across Europe
But I do have the obligatory (six) SBB Krocs
ECoS 50200, all FX and MFX decoders replaced with ESU V4s, operated in DCC-RailCom+ with ABC brake control.
With the exception of the passenger wagens with Marklin current conducting couplers, all close couplers have been replaced with Roco 40397. |
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