Lot Essay
Produced for the Easter of 1936, the hopper cars were originally sold filled with jelly beans.
Details
A rare Louis Marx 'Bunny Express',
clockwork lithographed tinplate rabbit with printed blue bow and blue glass eyes, four hopper cars depicting hatching chicks and a quantity of track, circa 1936 (F, some rusting to rabbits ear) (5)
clockwork lithographed tinplate rabbit with printed blue bow and blue glass eyes, four hopper cars depicting hatching chicks and a quantity of track, circa 1936 (F, some rusting to rabbits ear) (5)
Literature
See Toy Trains - A History, P.Carlson, Pub. Victor Gollancz Ltd, p.134.