Tin Litho Buildings, what do I have here???

Hi - Your barn is by Marx.  It was available in the mid-fifties; not sure how much before or after.  It looks like a nice one!

the log cabin looks like the Marx cabin that came with a lot of their western toy sets - Fort Apache, etc

Marx made at least two sizes of cabins for their several playsets.  I couldn't get your

photos to enlarge for detail , but that looks to be the smaller one.  The larger with a

porch was found in several different ranch sets, in different trims, including the Roy

Rogers ranch set.  The smaller one may have been included in some of their fort sets, but I am not sure about that. Marx also made several different farm sets, with different barns, as did Ohio Art, and I can't tell from the photo.....but usually, the litho, if Marx, has their logo on it somewhere.

The barn looks like Ohio Art; the cabin is by Marx.

Thanks for all the replies, very good info.  The buildings, to me, are too large for O scale, more closer to G gauge.

Marty

They look like Marx BUT, Marx toys always have their logo on them. So if they were Marx, you could find that very easily.

Martin, some of the Marx cabins are on this link; hopefully it will help:

http://www.marxwildwest.com/buildings.html#cabins

JayJay has it right.  It turns out the barn building is from Ohio Arts Mini Farm Set #193 from the 1960's.  Good info, there is one on an auction site now...I heed to find the silo..

Marty

Speaking of tin litho, back in the early 1950's, one of my buddies that lived across the street had a couple of cheap tin litho cars that were made in Japan.

One day he decided to take one apart. The bottom was a flat plate that had slots in it. It was held on the the car by bent tabs. When we took the bottom off, the inside had Japanese writing with a picture of an orange. These cars were made from old orange juice cans.