Anyone familiar with this Marklin 1 gauge refrigerator van for English market

Is there another forum that anyone is aware of where I could get more info on early Marklin? Thanks!

Several members here have impressed me with their knowledge of German tinplate; I think you've just got us all stumped with this one.  Asking about prices is particularly difficult (subjective, relative, what the market will bear, etc etc), and for something as infrequently traded as your little reefer, there probably isn't much data available.

You might take a look at this reference "data bank" for Marklin freight: good information (model numbers, dates, etc) but no prices.

good luck!

Hi hojack, thanks for the reply. Just to be clear, I wasn't trying to insult the forum! I just wasn't sure if there were other sites that I wasn't aware of that were more directed toward German trains etc. I'll take a peak at the link you added. Thanks.

And good point about the price/value of trains. It is a tough question to answer. When it comes down to it, they're worth whatever someone wants to pay for them!

I guess what I really would like to know is how many other people have ever seen that car in 1 gauge before. Anyone? 

There is a Classic European Trains Yahoo group.

https://groups.yahoo.com/neo/g...nversations/messages

Steve

I have seen it. There isn't much call here in the US for Gauge 1 tin.  There are Märklin forums, I think mostly in Germany. I belong to Spur 0 group but it is not very active.

The van would be expected to bring $2500 or so, but spirited bidders could raise that.

If you can handle the German (not too difficult) you can use the Lankes search engine

to find transactions during the past few years.

Lew Schneider

Great! Thanks guys. I'll check out Lankes and the Yahoo group. I wasn't aware of either of them. Historytoy.com seems to be a good reference too, but I couldn't find this car on there reaffirming how uncommon it must be. 

I monitor a couple European Ebays and have compared prices with pieces on American Ebay and Liveauctioneers.com. I'm sometimes surprised of the low sale prices of some 1 gauge pieces here in the states. I'm okay with it though...1 gauge tin is mostly what I'm interested in collecting. I'm okay with paying less for it when it actually turns up...

I would have thought it to be a Gamages piece too, but didn't have a Gamages catalog to check. I really need to invest in some reference material. Thanks for checking through your books, Roland. I still haven't picked up any of the books you suggested to me before, and this is a good reminder that I must do it soon.

I'm interested to see what it fetches at this auction. It isn't the most exquisite looking or detailed car, but it's hard not to be attracted to those odd ball rarities....