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So I purchased an estate of trains which had many prewar items, but I can't seem to find the catalog number of the item in the first three pictures...not sure if it is part of the a #911, 912 set etc. or a seperate piece.

The other pictures are of pieces that puzzle me as they don't seem to be hand made...the green "shrubbery" uses a very lightweight type of wood.  The "hill" or mounds seem a little too durable to have been made by hand and not flake away after all of these years...

Any insight is greatly appreciated.

Greg

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  • IMG_9515: Definitely Lionel...
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  • IMG_9518: Shrubbery
  • IMG_9519: Shrubbery with swinging fence
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  • IMG_9522: Sturdy plaster...no chips or flaking
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The green(ish) hedges and matching hedge with gate, and the gray decorative rocks are Jefferson Sales items. At their prewar zenith, Jefferson made a wide variety of decorative bits that filled an ~8 page catalog for Christmas gardens (including park benches and statues, garden accessories, Poplar tress, an operating water fall, and the ever popular Easy Bilt mountain paper, which was based upon a Maurer Paint Co. patent). Jefferson Sales was located in Jeffersonville, Pa. in the Philadelphia area west of Norristown. 

Hope this helps.

Bob

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