Lot 101
101
A very rare German wood, tin and card carpet-toy train
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A very rare German wood, tin and card carpet-toy train

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A very rare German wood, tin and card carpet-toy train
the black and yellow painted engine with brass wheels, baseplate and brake, three passenger carriages with card sides painted in poster paint with flower designs with glass windows and twenty painted composition passengers, two amateur painted card carriages and one amateur carved mahogany carriage with open windows, circa 1870, the engine --5½in. (14cm.) long (some paint lifting)
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No VAT will be charged on the hammer price, but VAT at 15% will be added to the buyer's premium which is invoiced on a VAT inclusive basis.

Lot Essay

Wood toy trains from the 19th century are rare although they do appear in German toy Masterbooks of the 1860s. There is a simple wood train in the London Museum, but without the decoration of this one. Rock and Graner's catalogues of the 1870s show similar designed trains but these, of course, are painted tinplate.

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