A while back Southwest Hiawatha posted a picture of a MonoRail at the GPD museum,and in the photo
was the Spirit of St Louis Aeroplane set. Here's a video link if anyone is interested.
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There was a spirit of St Louis airplane set for sale at the Sacramento, CA train show today. Pretty cool.
Royboy
Do you recall the asking price and condition of the set?
I love that set. Wish someone did a reproduction of it.
If a repro was made,I don't think it would be inexpensive.
There is one on eBay asking $1150.
It seems that it always was expensive.
In the American Wholesaler's 1928 catalogue, it was listed at
$7.50 wholesale (3/8 of an Oz. of gold) or over two days wages
for my grandfather.
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Originally Posted by Southwest Hiawatha:
Royboy
Do you recall the asking price and condition of the set?
I would judge it as very good and the price was $1250.
The lithography on the tower was not shiny/glossy, but was also not scratched. I have never seen one before, so I do not know if they are all lithographed that way.
There was some fraying of the wires on the boom supporting the powered plane. The planes were blue with gold accents. There was some missing blue paint, but no shiny spots where the paint was missing. This indicates that all paint loss was in the distant past, rather than recent. The dummy airplane still had its celluloid propeller.
Everything looked original, but the chrome pivot that mounts the arm to the pylon was so shiny that it looked like a replacement part. It seemed to have no patina on it at all.
To my way of thinking, it was in impressive condition for its age, but again, I have never seen one before.
Clyde Easterly was the seller.
Originally Posted by RoyBoy:
Originally Posted by Southwest Hiawatha:
Royboy
Do you recall the asking price and condition of the set?
I would judge it as very good and the price was $1250.
Everything looked original, but the chrome pivot that mounts the arm to the pylon was so shiny that it looked like a replacement part. It seemed to have no patina on it at all.
To my way of thinking, it was in impressive condition for its age, but again, I have never seen one before.
Clyde Easterly was the seller.
The price AND the seller are the signal that it is an original. Anything that he or Chuck Brasher would sell I would never have any doubts.
That seems like a good price, I paid $900 for mine and it's in much rougher shape than that.
I wonder if it's the one that was on Clyde's layout?
Chuck Brasher has a gorgeous one but pretty much everything Chuck has is gorgeous.
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