healey36 wrote:Bought a box of tinplate stuff at an estate sale the other day; gotta go pick it up today. I'll post a few pics later.
Drove down to Halethorpe yesterday morning and picked up the lot from the estate sale. A 1930's era Lionel set that's been completely repainted by the previous owner, probably worth about the thirty bucks I gave for it:
My understanding is that this set was received new back in the day (a couple cars added subsequently), then refurbished by the original owner decades later, perhaps in the 1960's. It had been sitting in a nice dry attic for the last 30-40 years after the original owner's passing. Virtually zero collector value in this condition, but epic provenance.
