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One of the difficulties I faced was the dearth of tinplate buildings, unless you considered a gas station, a train station or an times directly related items like water towers. I recently acquired two items that are being shipped as I write this and one was just delivered..all of them in pristine condition and it makes me wonder how these items came through the decades unscathed. The first is a Skyline house, another is a Marx Airport Terminal, and the last is a Marx Lumar Construction Office. All four of them came from different sellers. It always seems that availability runs in some kind of odd cycle.For months there is nothing and then for about a week, there's a glut of them making choosing one a challenge due to budget constraints.

 

I would be curious to know what non railroad tinplate building would you consider to be a remarkable find? 

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I'm always on the lookout for litho houses. The early Lionel Villa's etc are easy to come by as originals or repro. I have both the M-4 & M-5 Skyline houses and all 5 of the color combo's of the H&H houses. I also have the 101, 102 & 103 by Atlas Tool Co, although these are painted, not litho. I don't know if Atlas made any other models. The people that work in all those buildings need a place to live.

Some litho restaurant's would be cool????

Steve

I saw the red brick tinplate Skyline control tower with the blue roof on the front cover of CTT a few years ago. Never saw one before, but found a nice one on eBay a few months later.

 

With me, it's more about determining if something even exists. Then I go out and hunt for it. That's part of the fun for me.

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