Help With ID of Semapohore

It's Hafner - late 1930's and 40's

Thank you Robert.

Actually, it was made by Lionel, under contract to Hafner.  The yellow and red colors were only made for Hafner.  

Lionel made two items for Hafner in the mid 1930's which used the square base and lattice pole: this semaphore, and a diamond-shaped railway crossing sign, which used the Ives "Railroad Crossing - Danger - Look Out For Engine" sign which was owned by Lionel, mounted on this same base and lattice post.

Hafner sold these two signals, along with the long and narrow 3" x 10" Hafner freight station, passenger station, and waiting platform, all with matching roofs, together as a boxed accessory set #1200.

Documentation for this, if you are interested, is:

Greenberg's Guide to "Early American Toy Trains", Hafner section by Paul Doyle, pages 148-149.

and

Greenberg's Guide to "Lionel Trains 1901-1942: Volume III, Accessories" by Peter Riddle.

Page 40, under the #62 semaphore, describes the yellow and red colors as being made for Hafner:

and Pages 87-88, under the entry for the O68 Crossing warning sign, which describes the anomalous yellow and red with the Ives diamond which is larger than the diamond used on the O68 and different from the diamond used on Lionel's 68.  Riddle again mentions the 1200 accessory set, and discusses the marketing relationship between Lionel and Hafner.

It's these uncataloged, fringe odd-ball cases that make collecting fun!

david

tough to find intact, you usually see the buildings separate from the waiting platform and the signs are often mis-identified.

I wonder if they were also sold as separate items.  I would think they must have been.  I have never seen a boxed set.