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Train Show Find: Large Carette Windmill
« on: May 06, 2022, 08:36:04 am »
One last item I acquired last week in York, PA was this very large (22 Inches!) windmill. The seller had it marked Eiffel but my toy collector friend told me it is Carette. It is pretty much identical to the one on page 93 of the Hirschberg book identified as probably Carette.

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Re: Train Show Find: Large Carette Windmill
« Reply #1 on: May 06, 2022, 09:42:41 am »
That one I've not seen before , exceptionally nice catch.
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Re: Train Show Find: Large Carette Windmill
« Reply #2 on: May 06, 2022, 04:00:05 pm »
One last item I acquired last week in York, PA was this very large (22 Inches!) windmill. The seller had it marked Eiffel but my toy collector friend told me it is Carette. It is pretty much identical to the one on page 93 of the Hirschberg book identified as probably Carette.

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great windmill - very rare and never seen before
it is really like the "Eiffel Tower" in Paris...
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Re: Train Show Find: Large Carette Windmill
« Reply #3 on: May 06, 2022, 07:59:55 pm »
Yeah Jim, that's not an Eiffel, that's a "DANDY". :D  Very nice indeed.
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Re: Train Show Find: Large Carette Windmill
« Reply #4 on: May 07, 2022, 06:11:24 am »
Could possibly be Carette; however in my catalog the Carette machine is not so detailed, I’m thinking that it could also be Krauss & Mohr, nonetheless a bloody ripper.
First photo is from Carette catalog and second photo is most of my windmill collection in the car garage taken on the oblique to fit them in the lens.
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Re: Train Show Find: Large Carette Windmill
« Reply #5 on: May 12, 2022, 08:06:25 am »
Nice collection. I wonder which way the wind blows in your garage? ;)
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