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(is this Chinese?...several around)


(a pre-war classic!)


( I like tin planes to be very accurate or wildly fantastic!)


(this big tin Globemaster would have fetched more than $57 with USAF stars?)


(marked )made in Canada


nice condition


A new one to me!... is it based on the 1940s Ryan mixed power fighter ?(recip engine at front, jet at back)

The first plane is an Automatic Toy Co from Staten Island, NY - The tooling is identical to a German Technofix toy. When I was researching airships on line, I found an Akron, Ohio Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co. archive that showed a whole stack of those J Chein Co Martin 130s in their boxes dating to Christmas 1940. And that Yonezawa-Tomiyama C-124 with Canadian insignia is very good indeed.

The B-36 I just added by edit looked good value at $399...out of my league these days and postage/customs duty to the UK would have been a killer even if the seller was willing to ship overseas ( I don't think he was !). Not sure how long these ebay archived pics stay online ...might be a year?