101 - Märklin Göppingen, field gun, sheet metal toy cannon with spoked wheels, before 1930

Märklin Göppingen, field gun, sheet metal toy cannon with spoked wheels, before 1930 Sheet metal and metal, model of a field gun, also toy cannon, Gebr. Märklin & Cie., Göppingen, before 1930. On the inside of the trail red stamp “G.M. & Cie.” in intertwined letters in a coat-of-arms shield, below it “Wurtemberg”. Slender metal-coloured, hollow barrel with longitudinal seam, muzzle ring, thickened breech and black ball knob, in trunnion bearings on a green-lacquered sheet metal carriage, below the breech a threaded spindle with small spoked handwheel, carriage cheeks with rows of round openings and embossed rows of rivets as well as black transverse lines, at the end of the trail a limber eye, two large spoked wheels with black-lacquered tyres. Condition commensurate with age. L. 27.5 cm The Märklin company in Göppingen goes back to the tinsmith's workshop of Theodor Friedrich Wilhelm Märklin founded in 1859; from 1888 the sons Eugen and Karl ran the business as Gebr. Märklin, and from the entry of the partner Emil Friz in 1892 as Gebr. Märklin & Co., which is the origin of the “& Cie.” in the company mark. Besides dolls' kitchens, ship models, carousels and, from 1893, the tin railways made of tinplate, Märklin also produced military toys of sheet metal until the Second World War, among them hand-painted field cannons of sheet metal with a metal barrel on a wheeled carriage. Until 1929 Märklin used as its company mark the intertwined letters G, M and C in a coat-of-arms shield, together with the state name Württemberg; around 1929 a new mark followed.