It is hard to believe this set is 100 years old!
American Flyer set 1201 from 1921.
The set came with a new end label on its box, which was featured in 1921 only. Note the end label is not showing the 3020, which was not introduced until 1922.
NWL
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Beautiful
Steve
Not sure how old this little guy is. Don
@scale rail posted:Not sure how old this little guy is. Don
He's a bit older than you thought Don .... Straight drive rods puts him about 1914-15 !
American Flyer's 100 Station was introduced in 1921 also. The 100 station featured the tall timbered section at the top of the building, the hip roof, and the actual bay window section (not the simulated bay window as found on the later 101 station).
NWL
And here are some of my Bing for Bassett Lowke 1921 Series beautiful lithographed coaches.
The represent the Southern, LMS, Midland, and Great Western (rare livery) coaches.
Lew Schneider
ALL wonderful artifacts that were once a child's toys.
Mea culpa. Just after I posted the "1921" series Bing for Bassett Lowke coach photos I realized that they were actually not produced until the following years. 1922 --GWR Lake and Midland; 1926-- LMS and 1929--Southern. The only ones actually produced in 1921 were the London & Northwestern and here they are. Lew
NO mea culpa necessary! Just THANKS for sharing! :-)
Here is mine. It's a mixture of Bing and Ives, and dates to ~1915.
Chris
LVHR
I don't think I have any set or train related item I know was made specifically in 1921 but I do have a number of items that could easily date from 1921.
In the U.S., prohibition kicked it into gear on January 17, 1920. Among the many things outlawed by prohibition were advertisements for liquor. For Bing, this meant their beer reefers could no longer display the word "beer" on the sides of the cars. As a result, starting in 1920, Bing censored all of the beer reefers they exported to the U.S. The car below is one of these cars and given the date of the start of prohibition it could have been made in 1921.
Censored Bing Beer Reefer
@Robert S. Butler posted:I don't think I have any set or train related item I know was made specifically in 1921 but I do have a number of items that could easily date from 1921.
In the U.S., prohibition kicked it into gear on January 17, 1920. Among the many things outlawed by prohibition were advertisements for liquor. For Bing, this meant their beer reefers could no longer display the word "beer" on the sides of the cars. As a result, starting in 1920, Bing censored all of the beer reefers they exported to the U.S. The car below is one of these cars and given the date of the start of prohibition it could have been made in 1921.
Censored Bing Beer Reefer
I had no idea that prohibition laws went so far as to "censor" toys! Amazing!
Does anyone else have some more examples of "censored toys"?
Bob Nelson
@Robert S. Butler posted:I don't think I have any set or train related item I know was made specifically in 1921 but I do have a number of items that could easily date from 1921.
In the U.S., prohibition kicked it into gear on January 17, 1920. Among the many things outlawed by prohibition were advertisements for liquor. For Bing, this meant their beer reefers could no longer display the word "beer" on the sides of the cars. As a result, starting in 1920, Bing censored all of the beer reefers they exported to the U.S. The car below is one of these cars and given the date of the start of prohibition it could have been made in 1921.
Censored Bing Beer Reefer
They censored more than the word "beer" on that car, as the Schlitz's motto was "The Beer That Made Milwaukee Famous" However, I suppose the car would have looked funny as "The XXXXX That Made Milwaukee Famous"
NWL
NWL - I agree. If the word "beer" was in the text line Bing censored the entire line. I don't have any pictures of the censored Pabst or Budweiser cars but when you find them what you will see
Pabst Car
for the Pabst car the line "The Beer of Quality" is blanked out
Budweiser Car
and for the Budweiser car the line "King of all bottled beers" is blanked out.
My guess is from a production standpoint it was probably easier to cross out an entire line than try to line up a censor print to target a single word.
1921 Ives entered the standard gauge world to give Lionel a run for the money .... Christmas 1921 they othered the White 3243 set ...and one 1132 set as a eye catching novelty in the big department stores ...
Ives new showroom featuring their new standard gauge line ...note White Ives observation in showcase
Don
Wow! Some really great trains!! I bet the people making these had no idea any would make it this long?!
Joe Gozzo
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