Interesting Auction Items

[Terry]

Here's something for Jim:

Two lots with Madison Hardware wartime cars:

Boxcar and wood flat:

https://connect.invaluable.com/stout/auction-lot/mixed-group-of-lionel-prewar-o-gauge-trains-inclu_86A482D930

Boxcar and wood flat with 820 type searchlight:

https://connect.invaluable.com/stout/auction-lot/mixed-group-of-lionel-prewar-and-o-gauge-and-repr_04A4B5DAB1

I never had a wood flatcar or wood searchlight.

[starfire700]

I guess that there are more out there to be had.

[Terry]

Here's something cool.

 

107 direct current reducer. I have one of these, but not the box. 

That should be expensive, but I doubt many collectors care. In fact, I wouldn't have bought mine except it came with trains I wanted. 

https://www.ebay.com/itm/255054806415

[starfire700]

Interesting the items marketed in "the old days" for kids, such as this current reducer and the wet-cell power supply shown in an earlier photo.

[Terry]

Here's an interesting 800 Boxcar.  The lettering on the sides looks wrong.   It also has LL stamp on end and corp stanp under frame.

 

https://www.ebay.com/itm/255059204811

[early0electric]

Looks good to me. The early 800 didn't have any periods. With the end stamp and the corp stamp this is a transition box car from 1918.
 

[Terry]

Mike - your lettering looks crisper. Go look at the supersized picture in the auction.

Maybe it's the sweat in my eyes?

[early0electric]

Terry, I also have these. I put up the best one. Either one, the lettering looks the same as the one on eBay.
 

 

[Terry]

ok.

[Terry]

Here's an auction that I had to look at closely.

 

The roofs are soldeired onto the cars under the paint and no lettering worries me. Plus I have a nice set.

https://www.ebay.com/itm/165030684751

[early0electric]

A friend of mine and I were talking about this auction earlier. It does look suspect. We both have orange 600's, also

[early0electric]

Here's a repainted 703 outfit up for auction. I believe it to be/was an original 703 based on the motor and the trucks. The earliest 703 had trucks with nuts on the end of the axles. Later ones had peened axles. The 703 was never produced with the type I MFG motor with the "L" rivets and open side frame as the hanger brackets for the trucks would have interfered with the rivets that held the side frames together. The early 156 (1917) is known to come with the peened axle, not nut axle trucks. Spoked wheels, square cut axles, and nuts on the pilot trucks are all hallmarks of the early 703's produced in late 1915 or 1916. The 703 and the 610 - 612 cars were NOT released when the other 700 series locomotives were. The 703  and 610 - 612's were later additions to the line.

https://www.ebay.com/itm/154583956681?hash=item23fdebfcc9:g:XNwAAOSw9X5hJoJ7

[starfire700]

Nice looking set for a collector who can't find or afford an original 703.

[Terry]

Why would this 822 get a bid?

https://www.ebay.com/itm/165033403982

[early0electric]

It's obviously a repaint with an added stack. The side stamped 822 on one side is at the wrong end. This is the same seller that has the orange repainted 600's with the soldered roofs. I guess somebody just likes the caboose. It can't be someone that thinks it be original. Maybe the bidder likes the story of the 97 year old repair man. Who knows?