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That is really amazing, too bad there isn't more information, or a way to zoom in on all those old engines, one-by-one. Wonder what happened to them all?
Well, I really liked it, made an offer and got it
I’ll do my best to zoom in and get some better closeups when it arrives
It is too bad there is not a date on this somewhere. Make it easier to research who Whelan and Hunter were. It has to be mid-sixties I would guess.
Jim in Minnesota
Found a nice website on the publisher. The number at the lower left indicates that this card was printed in 1970. However, it is possible that the same image could have originally been published first at an earlier time.
Wow, now that's a real blast from the past. I have that same card given to me by the son of the owner. I first saw the same photo in an old issue of Iron Man Album or similar back in the early 1990s (before you were born Nick?). The magazine must have been 10-15 years older than that. I was a new but eager collector then and of course there was no internet, Ebay or email. But I was able to track down the owner near Dayton OH and made a phone call. I asked for the him and after a long silence the woman said it was her husband and that he had passed away a couple of years earlier and that they hadn't opened the trailer since then. She and her son did allow me to come up (an exciting 6 hr drive) and we opened up the trailer and I was able to buy an Essex hot air engine and another small German steam engine, but most of the things I didn't want or couldn't afford. After getting back home the son called me back to say he'd found two more engines in the attic--turned out to be a small Marklin machine shop and a rather large Marklin 4149 with a Doll lineshaft and tools. So made another trip and bought the workshop while a friend bought the other Marklin. Another friend ended up getting the Colt Baxter model shown at the far left on the card. I had an auction of nearly all my 70-or-so engines back in 2000 when I thought we were moving overseas and regrettably the small workshop went was sold then. I will try and scan an old photo and post here.
Here's the Marklin machine shop. I repainted the boiler and made a new chimney. The 2nd photo is the model Baxter Colt engine (not mine) from the postcard.
What a great story Brent. Steam Picker Legend stuff!
The post card sold very quickly. Did someone buy it?
What a great story Brent. Steam Picker Legend stuff!
The post card sold very quickly. Did someone buy it?
I made a low offer and they took it.
Love that story Brent!! Wasn’t expecting to learn the story on it so fast. I see at the top it says “Grandpa’s Toys”
Found a nice website on the publisher. The number at the lower left indicates that this card was printed in 1970. However, it is possible that the same image could have originally been published first at an earlier time.
If the card was printed in 1970, that would make an engine like the Empire (4th in at the top) the equivalent age of an SP series Mamod today.
I wonder who made the large overtype engine at the top in the center.
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To be honest the majority of the collection consisted of home built models and their quality was not very high. The few German engines had missing parts and were often repainted, so I didn't buy much. I did get the nice litte Krauss Mohr beam engine on the top shelf, far right. No armchair collecting in those days! The number on my photo indicates I bought the machine shop there in 1992. I don't think the big overtype was still there when I visited in 1992. I thought I might have the original article with the photo but so far have only found one of the post cards.
Here's the Marklin machine shop. I repainted the boiler and made a new chimney. The 2nd photo is the model Baxter Colt engine (not mine) from the postcard.
Very nice machine shop. What I'd like to see and hear more about is the Locomobile
and the thresher on the shelf above it.
Sadly, that Marklin single cylinder traction engine and threshing machine went in the same auction as the machine shop in 2000. I really regret not keeping the threshing machine but have since replaced the traction engine with another and better twin cylinder compound from the same period. You can see it near the end of this video at the 2:48 minute mark.
https://youtu.be/CfGYllFkpik