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Nice catches all round Dan and Lew !

Those lamps look stunning Daniel and in pretty good nick too !  The bulbs are killer ... you can see they were hand drawn glass so they must be pretty early?

The South African Hornby is an elusive beast Lew as is the O Gauge Mitropa .. you have pulled another one( well two really)  out of the hat there!

(Wow .. if thats the SAR just sold on Vectis you made off like a bandit with it Lew! .. )

A few news in the collection.

A very small Bing loco, is 0 gauge, but the size is more like S gauge.

From Bing set 11/933, made only 1930 in this colour.

Bing had made 2 different sizes of the 4 window coach and the smaller is matching to the loco

Issmayer train around 1920

Arne

Most of this set arrived in the mail today.

C. 1914-1915 American Flyer Pennsylvania 1107/1108 cars with engine and tender.

Metzel style engine with machined cast iron wheels, which only are found on the 1914-1915 engines.  Bonus, the engine spring is good and the engine works as it should.

The rivet style 120 tender, which is the first variation of this tender.

The Penn Line wood sided litho pattern 1108 baggage car.  The wood sided cars are c. 1914-1915 only.

The 1107 Pennsylvania coach is the only car that did not arrive in today's mail.  I bought it at York several years ago at one of the bandit shows. 

The coach that arrived in the mail could not be saved, but donated a frame, roof, and wheels to the coach above (prior to these pictures being taken).

Now I have all of the wood sided cars, except for the blue 1108 Penn Line baggage.

NWL

Nice set NWL

Well, my input today comes all the way from France.  Daniel, this seller sent this car in a simple envelope (carefully wrapped) decorated with 10 different French postage stamps on the outside.  If I was a stamp collector I might have kept the envelope and thrown away the car !

It is a French Hornby Saint Freres Covered Wagon or...SNCF Wagon Tombereau Bache "Saint Freres" . Postwar made between 1949 and 1954 .  Here he is...

Best wishes everyone.  I should also add, Arnie and NWL those are really beautiful sets.  Thanks for posting.

Don

Nice pickups everybody!

I am kinda stoked to reveal my pickup this week , another Hornby , I have found a couple of really tatty locomotives in the past of the same ilk , but never a full rake , always hoping to come across the carriages at some point , I mean they must be out there , the locos were lol ..

However locally I found the full set at a do-able price so jumped on it ...

Let me present ...

The 1936-40 Hornby Clockwork Silver Link set in not too shabby condition

Lots of Hornby "Artistic License " applied to this one but I think its one of the nicest clockwork 0-4-0's they made , a shortened stubby version of the real life A4 locomotives , slightly cartoonish even, but you can bet the farm any kid getting ths futuristic streamliner would have wet his Christmas or Birthday pants !

Was at the Great Midwest Train Show yesterday and picked this up for $50.  It needs replacement light castings and replacement telegraph poles, both of which I have.  So, I need to paint the items and install them. 

Now to see if it will fit on the layout, next to the other bridges.

NWL

**** you, fatman, your the one who beat me.

Best John

Was a very "interesting" auction, epay said I won the auction, couple of seconds later they said I didn't win. Must be the time

difference.

@FRENCHTRAINS posted:

Nice catch @Fatman many times sellers don't have the right knowledge of their stuff so some good deals may happen.  I just had a similar opportunity in Germany on Ebay with two lamp posts described as Lionel from 1926. If the date is not bad they are definitely something else....

The first one is an IVES model, not yet received but seems in good condition, I am not sure about the paint is right or not, and the two bulbs have a more Marklin or Bing look but maybe someone knows better than me. Finding IVES pieces in the old Europe is rare so not too bad and for half the price of a simple Lionel one from the same period even if I would have preferred a Lionel one....

The second one is an American Flyer model, as the previous one not sure about the paint but for me it looks nice... even if more common than the IVES model.

Have a nice weekend,  Daniel

Love those bulbs!

FATMAN SCORES!!!  What a great set.  Good Hunting.

Don

@beardog49 posted:

Was a very "interesting" auction, epay said I won the auction, couple of seconds later they said I didn't win. Must be the time

difference.

@Fatman had about a 10 hour head start - he's living in the not-too-distant future. 

Hello Don, you have been very lucky to receive that nice Hornby car without any damage, it is not a heavy piece but I would have been afraid to send it this way.  Now maybe you will have to search for a matching engine from the same period....

Simon, nothing more to say..... your Hornby set is a beauty, I have never found one and would be very happy with such a nice little set.  I have in a similar style a PLM streamlined set in French livery and electric, it was also offered as clockwork.

Great finds guys,

@John Smatlak , as you John I enjoy those old bulbs but they are more and more hard to find...

Daniel

Daniel - thanks for your comments.  I have an OVA loco which I know was available in 1959 (thanks to the catalog from that year that you sent me) and I have a PO type electric which apparently (at least according to my Hornby ref book) was available until 1954. I think these would be aga appropriate, but what do you think?

Oh you are right about sending the car the way the seller did but no damage was done and the shipping cost was very inexpensive, maybe he found a way to by-pass the e-bay shipping charges.

Best wishes

Don

@Don McErlean  Your two locos are a little older than the car, it is the last type made by Hornby.

The matching one for your engines would be the same one but with a green base.

And a perfect matching loco would be a common BB type as this one in a set box (tracks are missing in the upper part of the box)

Shipping charges are definetely too expensives, but a solid parcel is generally the best thing to do, I received a Lionel post war generator car with the plastic shell totaly destroyed using this system...

Very best, Daniel

Daniel. Thank you for your response. I do like the “BB” type engine but have not come across one here. The “STEF” boxcar is also neat. I guess I will continue to hunt for either the right loco / set or a car with a green base !!

Don

@beardog49 posted:

**** you, fatman, your the one who beat me.

Best John

If thats the case you made me pay for the priviledge Been watching it all week with a $125AUD start bid until the final few minutes

Yep I hit you up with 9 seconds to go ... and you beat me with your max , but my nimble fingers put in one last ditch bid with nanoseconds to go fully expecting not to get it ... then BAM ( Darn! ) I won it at more than I wanted to pay lol ! ( but still a good price )

It was totally unfair tho as you would be bidding US$ which already gives you a 30% advantage to us poor Aussie cousins only getting 70c to the dollar 

@FRENCHTRAINS , The PLM Aerodynamique is on my bucketlist for sure but they are so hard to find in half decent condition with a half decent price LOL!  Beautiful set you have

@Don McErlean, the best part is ...Its Hornby , so it wont matter too much which loco you use unless you are uber "anal" lol <-- bet it censors that ? Hornby is built to play with and has such interconnectivity across most of its life span

(Edit .. ok it DID let it go thru .. hee hee .. hmn you cant say d a m n  but anal is fine )

Actually, Fatman, I was bidding in Oz dollars. The auction was in AU$ so i was scrambling trying to convert

John

@beardog49 posted:

Actually, Fatman, I was bidding in Oz dollars. The auction was in AU$ so i was scrambling trying to convert

John

Ahhh ok quick and easy convert for you is always around 70 UScents ( $0.70)  to the AU dollar for the last year or two its been constant ... I saved you a heap on shipping tho I bet  !