HUGE VINTAGE LOT OF 61 PIECES MARX & LIONEL TRAINS + TRACKS + LOTS OF EXTRAS

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HUGE VINTAGE LOT OF 61 PIECES MARX & LIONEL TRAINS + TRACKS + LOTS OF EXTRAS:
$230.00

HUGE VINTAGE LOT OF 61 PIECES OF LOUIS MARX & CO. & LIONEL TRAINS + TRACKS + LOTS OF EXTRAS
YOU WILL GET ALL PICTURED. MARX CAR CARRIER W/ 4 CARS ON IT (SOU. 51100), 2 COAL CARRIERS BOTH MARX, LIONEL LINES 6017 CABOOSE, MARX CANADIAN PACIFIC C.P. 339234 CARRIER, MARX CHEMICAL ROCKET FUEL CARRIER, MARX ST. PAUL & PACIFIC 3 PASSENGER CARRIER, MARX ST. PAUL 1 BAGGAGE CARRIER, LIONEL NYC 18326 NEW YORK CENTRAL SYSTEM CABOOSE, MARX STOP ARM, A MARKED BAG OF MARX TRACK CONNECTORS & LIONEL TRACK CONNECTOR, 4 WAY CROSS TRACK BY MARX MEASURES 8 1/4\" ROUND, 2 TRACK SIGNS \"AJAX FOAMS AS IT CLEANS! CUTS GREASE FASTER! POLISHES TOO!\" & \"PALMOLIVE 100% MILD FOR THAT SCHOOLGIRL COMPLEXION LOOK!\", 2 STREET LIGHTS WITH A MAILBOX ON ONE AND A PHONE BOX ON THE OTHER, 5 MARX TELEPHONE LINE CARRIERS, TREE + MORE.
I DON\'T KNOW WHO THE MAKER OF THE TRACKS ARE BUT, THEY MEASURE 9 1/2\" LONG X 2\" WIDE AND THE CURVED ONES MEASURE 10 1/2\" LONG X 2\" WIDE. THESE HAVE BEEN STORED FOR A VERY LONG TIME AND ARE UNTESTED. THANKS FOR LOOKING AT MY sales.
Louis Marx and Company was an American toy manufacturer in business from 1919 to 1978. Its products were often imprinted with the slogan, \"One of the many Marx toys, have you all of them?\" Arguably, Marx was the most well-known toy company through the 1950s.

The Marx logo was the letters \"MAR\" in a circle with a large X through it, resembling a railroad crossing sign (Richardson 1999, p.66). As the X sometimes goes unseen, Marx toys were, and are still today, often misidentified as \"Mar\" toys. Reputedly, because of this name confusion, the Italian diecast toy company Martoys, after two years of production, changed its name to Bburago in 1976. Although the Marx name is now largely forgotten except by toy collectors, several of the products that the company developed remain strong icons in popular culture, including Rock\'em Sock\'em Robots, introduced in 1964, and its best-selling sporty Big Wheel tricycle, one of the most popular toys of the 1970s. In fact, the Big Wheel, which was introduced in 1969, is enshrined in the National Toy Hall of Fame.

Marx\'s toys included tinplate buildings, tin toys, toy soldiers, playsets, toy dinosaurs, mechanical toys, toy guns, action figures, dolls, dollhouses, toy cars and trucks, and HO scale and O scale trains. Marx also made several models of typewriters for children. Marx\'s less expensive toys were extremely common in dime stores, and its larger, costlier toys were staples for catalog retailers such as Sears and Montgomery Ward, especially around Christmas.

Founded in 1919 in New York City by Louis Marx and his brother David, the company\'s basic aim was to \"give the customer more toy for less money,\" and stressed that \"quality is not negotiable\" - two values that made the company highly successful. Initially, after working for Ferdinand Strauss, Marx, born in 1894, was a distributor with no products or manufacturing capacity. Marx raised money as a middle man, studying available products, finding ways to make them cheaper, and then closing sales. Enough funding was raised to purchase tooling from previous employer Strauss for two obsolete tin toys - the Alabama Coon Jigger and Zippo the Climbing Monkey. With subtle changes, Marx was able to turn these toys into hits, selling more than eight million of each within two years. Another success was the \"Mouse Orchestra\" with tinplate mice on piano, fiddle, snare, and one conducting.

Marx listed six qualities he believed were needed for a successful toy: familiarity, surprise, skill, play value, comprehensibility and sturdiness. By 1922, both Louis and David Marx were millionaires. Initially, Marx produced few original toys by predicting the hits and manufacturing them less expensively than the competition. The yo-yo is an example: although Marx is sometimes wrongly credited with inventing the toy, the company was quick to market its own version. During the 1920s, about 100 million Marx yo-yos were sold.

Unlike most companies, Marx\'s revenues grew during the Great Depression, with the establishment of production facilities in economically hard-hit industrial areas of Pennsylvania, West Virginia, and England. By 1937, the company had more than $3.2 million in assets ($42.6 million in 2005 dollars), with debt of just over $500,000. Marx was the largest toy manufacturer in the world by the 1950s. In 1955, a Time Magazine article proclaimed Louis Marx \"the Toy King,\" and that year, the company had about $50 million in sales. Marx was the initial inductee in the Toy Industry Hall of Fame, and his plaque proclaimed him \"The Henry Ford of the toy industry.\"

An O Scale Marx train set made in the late 1940s or early 1950s.At its peak, Louis Marx and Company operated three manufacturing plants in the United States: Erie, Pennsylvania, Girard, Pennsylvania, and Glen Dale, West Virginia. The Erie plant was the oldest and largest, while the Girard plant, acquired in 1934 with the purchase of Girard Model Works, produced toy trains, and the Glen Dale plant produced toy vehicles (Marx Trains 2007). Additionally, Marx operated numerous plants overseas, and in 1955 five percent of the toys Marx sold in the U.S.A. were made in Japan. By 1959, the demand for American toys was a billion dollars a year.