Hi guys. I just picked up these cars with some other prewar trains. I was wondering if anyone has any information about these? Are they rare? General idea of a price range? I hate to ask that last question, but I know nothing about these, and basically am curious if they are worth the price of the prewar Lionel trucks, or are rare and are worth a fair bit. Thanks
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I have never seen any items from Picard's O Scale line, only the OO Scale line. But from what I have heard O Scale Picard is supposed to be a tad more common then their OO Scale.
There are tons of these out there. Simple kits for freights, with printed detail. HO, OO, and O gauges were made from around 1940 to ??? Not worth much... the trucks have some value. I see them sell routinely for less than the value of the trucks.
This is a flyer set out at some point in the 1940's that listed the available items from Picard.
I have some of the O-gauge Picard kit parts, just the basic boxcar floor-walls-roof for two different sizes of boxcar. "Picard Novelty Co" is clearly stamped on some of the bundled pieces. The wood is still straight and I assembled a couple of the basic boxes but haven't finished them off.
http://americanoo.blogspot.com...d-picard-bodies.html
Picard Novelty Co. made exactly the same line in HO, OO, and O gauges ...
Picard Novelty kits are pretty crude, but the wood is generally decent and these were designed to go together very strongly with rabbet joints on the ends. Paper sides though...and just about zero details.......................BUT!
If you willing to put in the work, you can turn those 6 blocks of wood
into this:
I look for interesting, different kits from out of the past, but somehow missed these and have none, maybe because of passing over due to paper sides and lack of detail (although I do not remember seeing any). I see on the list above they offered no cabooses?
colorado hirailer posted:I see on the list above they offered no cabooses?
Not sure that I've ever seen anything other than the boxcars - had a box of these (maybe 12 sets of 6 wood parts) offered to me at the Chicago show - had just finished off the one car I posted above and decided regardless of price that enough was enough in this department, 
mwb posted:colorado hirailer posted:I see on the list above they offered no cabooses?
Not sure that I've ever seen anything other than the boxcars - had a box of these (maybe 12 sets of 6 wood parts) offered to me at the Chicago show - had just finished off the one car I posted above and decided regardless of price that enough was enough in this department,
They made a gondola and depressed center flat I believe, incredibly rare pieces.
Thanks guys
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