Article: Tin car made by 'toy king'

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Tin car made by 'toy king' By LESLIE HINDMAN, KNIGHT RIDDER NEWSPAPERS Date: 06-13-2002, Thursday Section: HOME Edtion: All Editions.=.Late Edition. Early Edition Column: WHAT'S IT WORTH?

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.

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 ...

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