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The Ultimate Book on Tin Toy Trains
Early Trains - Rock & Graner - Märklin - Bing - Carette - Plank - Schönner -
Early Kibri
Author: Paul Klein Schiphorst
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Foreword by Allen Levy
The Godfather of
Tin Toy Publishing
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It gives
me particular pleasure to preface Paul Klein Schiphorst's
magnificent opus The Golden Years of Tin Toy Trains.
Some 30 years ago I wrote and published A Century of Model Trains
while Paul was closely involved with the printing and binding of
A Century in his role as a young printing executive with
Smeets in Holland. Paul once confessed that my work had inspired him
to start collecting early commercial railway equipment with an
emphasis on Stations and Accessories. Well if that is the case, I am
delighted that in some way it led to this superb book. In A
Century of Model Trains I was only able to touch on the pre-1909
period en passant and, of course, did not have the benefit of
the enormous additional scholarship that has taken place in the
intervening years, including the painstaking tracking down of the
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Of all
the great books that have been published on the subject The
Golden Years of Tin Toy Trains is unique in that it deals so
comprehensively with subject matter that in terms of aesthetics and
rarity is unlikely to be surpassed. Time closes down the window for
discovering quantifiable amounts or rare and fragile material such
as this and we are all the richer for Paul's amazing perseverance.
The book combines the attributes of an academic work with what can
only be discribed as an illustrated homage to the artistry of the
early German and French toy industries (with a justifiable emphasis
on the work of Gebr. Märklin) reflecting a certain kind of artisan
naivety that never returned to Europe after this period.
Allen Levy, London, 2002 |
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