Recently brought me a friend a box of Scrap from a stock exchange . In this box was a large railroad crossing 1628/3 of Bub. When I got them it was completely black, like in an attic after decades . After washing, they looks really good and I had started to restore them , especially they was mostly complete and it is not a common model . A gate and the house I found on Ebay.
Now it´s finished, the bell rings and the gates close and open with the clockwork.
Greetings from Germany
Arne
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That is very interesting European tinplate. Carl Bub is an unfamiliar name in America and we would like to hear more about it !
I found this info on another site:
Karl Bub was founded in Nuremberg in 1851 (KBN standing for "Karl Bub Nürnberg", but also KB as producer insignia can be found). They produced tinplate toys with and without clockwork, and about 1905 they started to produce toytrains. When Bing ceased business in 1932, Bub took over some of the Bing tools for locos and freight cars. Following Bing's end, Bub became Germany's largest toytrain producer ... Bub ceased Business in 1966 ...
That's a nice piece. Is the paintwork done by hand? I have an O gauge KBN freight shed, which looks the same as the Bing freight shed. I assume it was produced after Karl Bub took over the Bing production. It fits very well with American Flyer S scale too.
Lovely.
Firewood,
yes it´s hand-painted, only the house is printed.
The freight shed of Bing and KBN are very similar. But was made with different tools. Bing had made them 1909-1932 and Bub 1924-1934.
And there was a 3rd of this the freight sheed avaible. Was made by the britisch manufacturer Brimtoy and is very similar too.
Arne
nice job
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