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As I look at many boxed P'ville kits and catalogs in my collection I can appreciate some really nice and well-done artwork.  Remember this was all originally hand done in an era before the technology we have today.  So can anyone shed any more light on the history of the artwork?  Has any magazine featured any articles on it?  There was a large lapse in my subscriptions to some mags so if you can point me to any articles I'll find some more fascination. 

 

As an aside, I worked in a box plant that made boxes for an obscure toy train manaufacturer in the 1950's and can't remember the company.  (Not the ones we commonly know.) Before I could have collected the job samples and machine parts, and printing plates to produce them but it all got tossed.  Ahhh, hindsight.....

 

Phil

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Google search found the PCA, Plasticville Collectors Association.

www.plasticvilleusa.org, although they want you to join for $8.

 

Tandem associates:

http://www.tandem-associates.c...ticville/mu_1955.htm

http://www.tandem-associates.c...ticville_desktop.htm

http://www.tandem-associates.c.../railroad_center.htm

 

 

Another magazine

http://ctt.trains.com/issue-se...nddate=12%2f1%2f2012

 

Not sure if this is what you are looking for.

Bob, Thanks, it's a start.  But I believe there is a lot more to the story about Plasticville.  Any of us should fully remember that P'vile was also a part of our early model railroad experience to augment the model railroads we built long ago.  Somewhere, somehow, there has to be a lot of history behind not just the plastics production, but the graphics that decorated the boxes and catalogs.  I would hope that we all could learn and appreciate more about it through stories or research.

 

Phil

Here's a shameless plug for the PCA. For $10 a year (or $8 if you download the newsletters from their site), you get a really nice quarterly newsletter and access to a great website. They have a luncheon at York each show as well. 

 

Another place to possibly search is the old Plasticville Gazette magazines. They only ran for a year or two I think, but I really don't know if they would be of any use. Perhaps the old price guide may have some info as well.

 

J White

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