Kibri

A picture might help. Part No. from a box. It's European, but you'll need much more to assist you on setting a price. Good Luck, Dave G.

Every time I try to post a pic it tells me I need flash player and my IPad doesn't have it. There is no box either he had it wrapped up in a tshirt. All by itself. Thank you for the link though. I'm going there now.

 I didn't find a thing there. Oh my...*sigh*

Fran

My e-mail address is in my profile. If you want to send me pictures, I'll be glad to load them for you.

Steve

Does the station look like one of these kibri stations from my collection.

Sent a pic to your email at the email on your profile. Thank you sooo much!

This is what fran sent me.

Great tin piece. I'd keep it.

Steve

Thanks Steve, I don't know what I would do with it since I don't have a Train "set up" 

Im trying to do right by my father in laws collection. I have encountered a little discouragement by selling on eBay. Any suggestions?

You can sell it here in the For Sale Forum, but you must have a listed price(s).

That clock really sets that station off.A really nice item .

Well, that's another dilemma I have found very limited info on this piece. I wouldn't have 

Panty idea what it's worth? 

Not Panty idea. No idea what it's worth! Hahahahahaha! Oh my...

That is a spectacular piece. I'm sure it would sell here on the Forum. I'd love to have it myself, but I don't know what it's worth either. We have a few Euro-collectors here on the Forum; hopefully one will come along with some value information. 

By the way, "Gepack" is German for baggage. 

Could be some help or at least a guideline for something similiar.

http://www.antiquesnavigator.c...auge-with-clock.html

That brings up an important point - what gauge is the station meant for? The station in the completed auction Jim C cites is listed as 00 scale, not much different from HO. Fran, how big is that station - length, width, height? Knowing whether it is an 0 gauge piece or 00 makes a big difference.

Hi Hiawatha. 

Thank you for bringing that to my attention! See....I couldn't wouldn't know what to look for or even what this was until the very nice people here helped me out! 

This piece is 10 inches in length, 4 1/2 inches wide and 4 1/2 inches tall with 1/4 inch of that being the depth of the base. I, now correct me if I'm wrong,  but I would say O gauge ? 

Fran,

I am sorry to be the bearer of bad news, but the Kibri station is a #0/52/5 for gauge H0 per the 1952 catalog (page 6, dimensions given as 9 7/8L, 4 1/4W, 4H). It was only valued at $30 in 1998, and I would not expect much over $40 at this point. The unfortunate reality is that being H0 scale it it too toy like for H0 scale railroaders, and while it would appeal to a tinplate guy, it is too small in scale.

Sorry

Roland

Roland, is the catalog available online for me to view? Or is it possible for you to post a picture (the page) of it? And it's not bad news at all. I'm trying to become informed about this new responsibility in my life. I,m not a Train enthusiast but I am fast becoming a fan! 

Fran,

Above is a scan of the page with your station (upper right). They did not show a station like yours in the gauge 0 section. If you click on the picture a larger version will show.

Roland

Roland

Those are some really neat looking stations. Could you post a page of 0 gauge stations, just so we can see what those looked like?

Per your request below are the two pages of stations that Kibri offered in 1952.

They also offered a few crossing gates (Operated by the weight of the train on the track passing over a metal bar) some simple track level bridges and some wooden tunnels.

Roland

Comparing the 0 and HO stations, it really doesn't look like there's much difference in scale. The 0 gauge stations are bigger and more elaborate, but if you look at the doors and windows, they almost seem to be scaled for the same size people. I would say they all look a bit big for HO and a bit small for 0 - like maybe they would look best with S or undersized 0. I think I'll go measure my Plasticville stuff and see how it compares. 

Thanks to Roland for posting. 

I am tickled someone actually found pictures in a catalog! Wow, thank you very much for that. So cool. And I was going to ask if perhaps this station would work well with S scale too? Now that I placed this next to the O it does look a little small but it possibly could have a fit with O if ya don't care too much about particulars..haha! Thanks gentlemen, you are the best and I'm getting sooo much education here. 

I measured a couple of stations and found that Fran's Kibri station is pretty similar in size to a Plasticville suburban station from the 1950's. The Plasticville is larger mostly by virtue of roof overhang and platform size; the actual building is pretty close. I also compared it to a prewar Flyer station that was allegedly for Standard Gauge (looks more like 0 to me) and the Flyer station was 5-1/2 inches tall at the roof peak, counting the 3/4 inch platform but not the chimney. This places the height of the building itself only about 1/4 to 1/2 inch more than the Kibri building. This would seem to confirm that the Kibri station would look OK with 0 gauge undersized tinplate (such as prewar Lionel), or any size 0 gauge Euro tinplate (prototypes are typically much smaller than American equipment) or S gauge. 

Just out of curiosity, is that a functional clock and if so, does it still work?

I would suspect that the clock is am imitation. Kibri did manufacture some stations with working clocks before WWII.

The earlier stations in gauge 0 were a larger scale with taller doors. I would guess that after the war, as only smaller gauge 0 trains were being made in Germany for the most part, they could get away with the smaller scale stations. the biggest thing that stands out is that they are not quite tall enough. I guess the true indicator would be to put a scale gauge 0 figure in front of the door and see if he would fit through it.

No, the clock is not a working clock. It doesn't even seem like its paper either. I can't thank you enough for the information and the interest this curious station has brought. 

The windows look pretty big.  A 2 1/2" garage door opening would 10 feet in O-Gauge quite plausible.

Fran sent me this photo and asked I add it. The woman is HO and the conductor is O

That is either one very tall woman or one very short conductor!

As the H0 scalers are generally more particular about scale, I would suspect the woman is probably closer to scale and definitely a better fit to the station.

Just my opinion.

Roland

Hi all!

A small attribution from Europe...these Kibri items aren't hard to find here, but may be the US is a different thing? I found one myself on a flee market, paid a 15 dollar (12 euro), condition good. You'r right, it's a bit too big for HO/OO and too small for O, but as it has that charming toy like appearance, I don't care that much. There's a light bulb in it too, clipped like the Lionel engine bulbs. The clock is a paper print on die cast.

More elaborate Kibri items are more expensive I guess. I think this one is a fifties production, shortly before plastic took over.

regards, Kieffer

I bought the station from Fran. Here are some photos of it with Distler & Sakai H0 trains and the with Marx and Hornby 027. For the photos I set it on some 3/4" wood to raise it up a little.  If one were concerned with scale, it looks best with the H0, but as a toy train piece it works well with either.

Thanks Fran, I love it.

Steve

I like that background Steve!

Kieffer

Hi Steve, I'm a bit slow on computer skills but I'll try to post a picture of a Distler engine shed with again a puzzling scale. It could be an H0 shed, the whole thing is actually 'multy tasking', could be a hangar or garage too. My first electric train set, Trix, had a Distler engine. These motors are strong, it still runs smoothly after having a few miles on the clock! I am only running that occasionally, for nostalgic reasons as my dad bought me that when I was a kid. If only the local toy shop have had Lionel trains...for some reason they were never that present on the European market I guess. They still are not.

Sakai trains, that's new to me, Japanese I presume?

Have a nice day, or evening as there's some time difference.

Great forum this is!

Kieffer

Those appear to be the Plasticville figures, which are usually stated to be somewhere between O and S in scale. She appears to be too large to be considered HO. This assumes, of course, that the station is closer to S Gauge than to HO or OO. Its hard to tell from the pics.

By the way, nice acquisition, Steve.

I have this Kibri station. I bought it this year, also in nice condition, I paid about $50.