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Article: Tin car made by 'toy king'
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- The Record (Bergen County, NJ)
- Article date:
- June 13, 2002
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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 ...