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Article: Collectors delight in tin toys.
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- Chicago Tribune (Chicago, IL)
- Article date:
- May 30, 2002
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Byline: Leslie Hindman
Q. Can you tell us anything about this or its value? It is marked "G-Man Pursuit Car. Louis Marx and Co., N.Y."
_Marcia Otterson, Cloque, Minn.
A. Louis Marx & Co. of New York was formed in 1919, when an ambitious young man from Brooklyn decided that he could make toys better and cheaper.
In his career, Louis Marx combined a perfect instinct for pleasing children with an engineer's knowledge of modern production techniques. Until about 1920, tin toys had to be hand-painted. Marx was one of the earliest makers to print colors on a flat piece of tin and then mold it into a toy, such as your "G-man pursuit car." The ...