Louis Marx wind up digging crane | Toys & Hobbies

maxwellbitesme · 2024-03-03T20:16:58.654000Z

Hello, March 3, 2024 I am trying to find and hopefully buy a Louis Marx wind up digging crane just like the one I used to have back in the early 1950's. This mostly metal toy had a tin lithographed dark olive green cab about 5 to 6 inches by 5 to 6 inches in size and about 5 to 6 inches tall. The right hand side of this cab had a chrome metal wind up key. On top there was a selector knob or stick shift to direct the wind up energy to raise or lower the brass chain and brass bucket with teeth etched in it. Also this energy could rotate the cab left or right or move the black rubber treads forward or backward. The crane boom was red pressed steel about 12 to 14 inches long. The entire piece sat on a red metal base attaching to black rubber treads. This toy was made in the American zone of West Germany in the late 1940's into the early 1950's patterned after the German all metal wind up Biller-Bohn digging crane that had white rubber treads and tin metal lithographed bucket, also with a chrome wind up key and similar dark green lithographed cab of similar size and dimensions as the Louis Marx crane. Please let me know if you have any information about this item. As far as I know, my mother gave my Louis Marx digging crane away to someone who helped her when I was not around and she was in a big hurry to sell the entire house and move into a senior citizen center.I would like to find this exact one or another in just as good condition.

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