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The Fleischmann company is celebrating their 120th anniversary this year, and were certainly making toy trains, as opposed to model railways before the first world war. Then there is Bing and Marklin, both making lithgraphed toys at the end of the nineteenth century. Those toys from this period can now sell for thousands of pounds.

Additionally Hornby Dublo was certainly about in the 1930's.

Makes you think doesn't it.

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John

 

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QUOTE (Gary @ 24 Apr 2007, 14:03) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>Anybody with memories of playing with pre 1923 toy trains as kids would now have to be a minimum of 90 years young.
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Gary

Not nesessarily.. my father was born in 1930 - his eldest brother was born in 1920, handed down toys (and clothes) were very common in the years between the wars. I even inherited some pre-war Dinky toys in the 60's.

QUOTE (60134 @ 24 Apr 2007, 14:17) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>I have a horrible feeling that an antique is anything over 60 years old - how many on this forum qualify?

60134

Thankfully I don't, and I'm much too polite to ask!!

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John

 

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In general terms the word relic relates to either religous items or fragments of the whole. Generally a relic is much older than a mere antiquity.

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John