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Builds, Repairs, Show Your Machines! => Collections & Pictures => Topic started by: Nick on February 13, 2020, 01:03:20 am

Title: Re: Bing Windmühle (Windmill) #10/21 c1930
Post by: txlabman on February 13, 2020, 10:33:44 am
Nice one Nick!

How tall is it?
Title: Re: Bing Windmühle (Windmill) #10/21 c1930
Post by: Woe is me on February 13, 2020, 09:33:11 am
Well I know the Bing brothers left Germany in the thirties not long after the Nuremberg Laws,
 which were antisemitic, were still in the works. They knew what was coming.   Anyways that's a nice piece.
Hey Nick, if you can't find a flag pole for it,  how about one of those cocktail umbrellas. ::)
Title: Re: Bing Windmühle (Windmill) #10/21 c1930
Post by: Nick on February 13, 2020, 09:07:35 am
Quote from: Woe is me on February 13, 2020, 08:58:05 am
Yeah I love the paint job too with the sections of brick showing here and there.
 So this is prewar? I always thought the the B on the W was post war and G. B. was prewar.
 Doesn't matter, it's a great piece.  Over the door is 17    02.  The address?

Thanks Tom, Bing was gone by 1933, so maybe when you heard post war, it was post WWI.

Many published books and Wikipedia have the BW logo as 1924/5 to 1932/3, but Petri @MrDuck has stated that Bing Werke logo may be as early as 1918...

I would assume 17   02 is the address, but I am not sure why the big space between it?
Title: Re: Bing Windmühle (Windmill) #10/21 c1930
Post by: Nick on February 13, 2020, 09:02:27 am
Quote from: CBWho on February 13, 2020, 07:45:38 am
Nice,

Wow such nice paint. I presume the flag to be a wood pole? Could be easy to replicate.

It's more of a sticker/wallpaper/decal? And the red roof paint has aged very well with minimal chipping.

The flag is very simple, I have others on the shelf to copy... will get a picture of one...
Title: Re: Bing Windmühle (Windmill) #10/21 c1930
Post by: Woe is me on February 13, 2020, 08:58:05 am
Yeah I love the paint job too with the sections of brick showing here and there.
 So this is prewar? I always thought the the B on the W was post war and G. B. was prewar.
 Doesn't matter, it's a great piece.  Over the door is 17    02.  The address?
Title: Re: Bing Windmühle (Windmill) #10/21 c1930
Post by: SeeSteam on February 13, 2020, 07:45:38 am
Nice,

Wow such nice paint. I presume the flag to be a wood pole? Could be easy to replicate.
Title: Re: Bing Windmühle (Windmill) #10/21 c1930
Post by: Nick on February 13, 2020, 01:11:34 am
(https://www.officeofsteamforum.com/gallery/officeofsteamforum/0/6-130220005940-5571735.jpeg)

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Title: Re: Bing Windmühle (Windmill) #10/21 c1930
Post by: Nick on February 13, 2020, 01:11:06 am
(https://www.officeofsteamforum.com/gallery/officeofsteamforum/0/6-130220005936-5559.jpeg)

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Title: Re: Bing Windmühle (Windmill) #10/21 c1930
Post by: Nick on February 13, 2020, 01:09:44 am
(https://www.officeofsteamforum.com/gallery/officeofsteamforum/0/6-130220005930-5521942.jpeg)

(https://www.officeofsteamforum.com/gallery/officeofsteamforum/0/6-130220005931-5532401.jpeg)

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Title: Bing Windmühle (Windmill) #10/21 c1930
Post by: Nick on February 13, 2020, 01:03:20 am
Needs a flag, but otherwise a nice little toy...

Can be found on page 40 of Morton A. Hirschberg's book: Steam Toys: A Symphony in Motion

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