178 - Märklin gauge 0 passenger coaches 17190, 17210, 17270, luggage van 17260, tanker, Elastolin guard

Märklin gauge 0 passenger coaches 17190, 17210, 17270, luggage van 17260, tanker, Elastolin guard Tin, lithographed, wood, plastic and composition, Märklin and Karl Bub companies, gauge 0. Lot of eight two-axle wagons and accessories: 1) Märklin passenger coach 17210, red body with yellow lining, black roof, inscribed "17210", class number "2" on the doors. 2) Märklin passenger coach 17270, dark green, light roof, inscribed "17270" and "Mainz", class number "3", signs "Raucher" and "Nichtraucher", open platforms. 3) Märklin luggage van 17260, blue-green, cream roof, sliding door with vertical handle, inscribed "17260", "Pwi", "18 t" and "KKpbr", end "MÄRKLIN". 4) Two Märklin passenger coaches 17190, dark green, black roof, inscribed "17190", class numbers "2" and "3". 5) Karl Bub tank wagon, also tanker, cream-white tank with rivet decoration and pink dome, brown brakeman's cabin, black frame, marked "KB", round logos "Esso" and "STANDARD", signs "DEUTSCH. AMERIK. PETROLEUM GESELL. HAMBURG" and "Deutsche Reichsbahn ALTONA 526 662". 6) Märklin passenger coach 17210, dark green with light lining, black roof, inscribed "17210", class number "3". 7) Märklin Sprint 1592, blue plastic box with four sockets and two connecting cables, embossed "märklin". 8) Wooden buffer stop on base plate, cream beam with red centre panel, two buffers. 9) Refrigerator wagon, cream-white body with red lettering "Kühlwagen", inscribed "Deutsche Reichsbahn", "Hamburg 295" and "1246 ½", black chassis. 10) Small square Märklin tin, lid lithographed in yellow with a boy next to a crane and lettering "MÄRKLIN". 11) Elastolin guard, composition figure in blue uniform with peaked cap, marked "Elastolin" and "Germany" on the underside of the base plate. Condition commensurate with age, signs of age and corrosion, refrigerator wagon without roof, one coupling missing. The absence of smaller, delicate attachments cannot be entirely ruled out. The tinplate wagons 17190, 17210, 17260 and 17270 belong to Märklin's gauge 0 range; the passenger coach 17210 was available in green for 3rd class and in red for 2nd class. The simply designed passenger coaches 17190 bear printed rivets and doors, two of them were also sold as a set together with the clockwork locomotive R 880. The prototypes of the passenger coach 17270 are the standard passenger coaches that were called "Donnerbüchsen" because of their steel construction. The Nuremberg company Karl Bub, founded in 1851, produced toy cars and toy trains with clockwork and electric drive from around 1905 and in 1932 took over tools of its bankrupt competitor Bing; production ceased in 1966. The guard is a composition figure by the company O. & M. Hausser, which from 1910 sold its figures, pressed from sawdust, glue and kaolin over a wire frame and hand-painted, under the brand name Elastolin, which became a generic term for composition figures. The plastic box comes from the Märklin Sprint range, the electric slot car racing track in 1:32 scale that Märklin produced from 1967 to 1982.