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Originally Posted by waynew:

Hello;  looks like a hand made station by the German company of Tucher & Walthers.  I believe the company has closed, but not positive.

I was racking my brain because the building style was familiar, and then you hit the nail on the head. I also think it is Tucher & Walters, who made all those Jules Verne style tin toys including live steam airships.

This building could be actually be a T&W model airship hangar, but I'm not certain.

Originally Posted by Firewood:
Originally Posted by waynew:

Hello;  looks like a hand made station by the German company of Tucher & Walthers.  I believe the company has closed, but not positive.

I was racking my brain because the building style was familiar, and then you hit the nail on the head. I also think it is Tucher & Walters, who made all those Jules Verne style tin toys including live steam airships.

This building could be actually be a T&W model airship hangar, but I'm not certain.

I concur.  It does look better suited as a hangar for any of the Zeppelins, Dirigibles or Blimps offered 100 years ago.

 

Bruce

 

 

There is an airship hangar version available on the Ministeam site. All limited edition stuff, therefore non-cheap, but gorgeous. 

 

https://ministeam.com/acatalog/Tucher---Walther1.html

 

Looks like Tucher &Walther ran from the late 70s to 2009. They did their original designs, but apparently had many molds and dies from older Nuremberg tin toy companies also.

 

This is the kind of stuff that makes me want to go all tinplate all the time.

 Google 'Tucher & Walther tin toys' under Images. It's a treat for tin eyes.

Last edited by Firewood

steamer,

    Dave it seems Steve is an artist at coming up with old German Tin Plate, not just

trains but all kinds of buildings/bridges and stuff like the Zep.  His rework and upgrade of all kinds of Tin Plate is just over the Top Fantastic, he restored an 810 Lionel Crane Car that is simply some of the finest restoration work I have ever seen, on any kind Tin Plate.  I keep an eye on the threads he starts to see all the cool stuff he finds and restores all the time, I am very good at this Tin Plate restoration myself, been doing it sense I was a kid, Steve has me beat however, his original color schemes for doing restoration work is impossible to beat, a true Tin Plate Master, no doubt about it.

PCRR/Dave

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