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Reply to "Cost of New Tinplate Tooling"

If you are just stamping sheet metal ... you can probably get away much cheaper with less permanent dies ...  in the 70's both   Lion Lines in the San Fran area ...and Harlan Creswell  in Washington state,  stamped out State cars ......  Chuck Schaffer produced the 256 and 700 cars ..run of 100 ...using the Lion Lines guy for the tooling ...   all 3 were probably happy if they broke  even on the production ...  I believe these were  hard wood?  molds ...and had a very limited life ( small number of sharp stampings) .     Looking at one of these pieces compared to a  true  Lionel / MTH piece you can see the difference in the details of the stamped features, close yes but not as sharp .  No idea about the Brute sets .. 

cheers Carey 

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