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 Posted - January 12 2018 : 9:11:25 PM
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I am going to pick up a lot of trains tomorrow. They are prewar Lionel O gauge and early postwar American flyer S gauge. There are four Mantua kits with the lot. They are blue boxes, with a lift off lid. There is a crossbuck with the words "Mantua Metal Products Company" and below the word "Mantua" in large white letters. How old are these? Thanks in advance. I will post pictures tomorrow, when I have them.
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Posted - January 12 2018 : 9:24:07 PM
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| My guess is 50’s. The ones I’ve seen generally have kits of metal/wood construction.
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Posted - January 13 2018 : 11:11:33 AM
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Here are the kits, they are all metal construction. They are for sale...
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Posted - January 13 2018 : 12:50:56 PM
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| price?
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Posted - January 14 2018 : 1:19:21 PM
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| Agree the fifities
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Posted - January 14 2018 : 2:32:00 PM
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For dating those cars use HOseeker. They have a great catalog collection open to everybody. Those four you can tell by the boxes were sold at the same time. These are from a time when Mantua made all metal cars that had embossed printed paper sides. The gondola, box car, tank car, hopper, and reefer are made that way.
frank
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Posted - January 14 2018 : 3:11:09 PM
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Wonderful Mantua pieces, these are real survivors from when HO was
sort of in the line of TT scale, or N scale back in the '70's. And no
thanks, I have too much stuff as it is! Maybe a decent flip might
happen on eBay.
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