214 - Märklin SK 800 streamlined steam locomotive with tender and luggage van, H0, 1947–1953

Märklin SK 800 streamlined steam locomotive with tender and luggage van, H0, 1947–1953 Model railway, gauge H0. Streamlined tender steam locomotive of the Märklin brand, wheel arrangement 2-C-2, model SK 800, body of black painted zinc die-cast, with a four-axle tender, in addition a luggage van 354. Locomotive with three domes, a colour-painted figure in the cab and without traction tyres, luggage van with lithographed lettering 'Pw4ü 39t'. Signs of ageing. The locomotive's function is not present. The absence of smaller, delicate add-on parts cannot be entirely ruled out. The SK 800 is one of the best-known H0 models by Märklin: a streamlined steam locomotive after the prototype of the high-speed locomotives of the 1930s, which the firm produced in zinc die-cast from the late 1930s into the 1950s. Märklin introduced the SK 800, after the prototype of class 06 of the Deutsche Reichsbahn, in 1939. The present locomotive with three domes, wire handrails, a colour-painted figure in the cab and no traction tyres is the version of 1952 to 1953 (Koll's Kompaktkatalog Märklin 00/H0, 1983, no. 3007, variant 11); up to 1948 the model had four domes, from 1954 it received traction tyres. The express luggage van 354 with lithographed lettering is the version of 1947 to 1949 (Koll's Kompaktkatalog Märklin 00/H0, 1983, no. 354, variant 4). The locomotive and the luggage van have been recorded in the consignor's collection index since 1982.