Interesting Auction Items

[early0electric]

I recently got a Lionel wooden bulb holder with a tipped bulb. Due to packaging, the filament broke so it's now just a placeholder. Nonetheless, finding tipped bulbs are few and far between. It may not light, but I'm satisfied for the price I paid.
 

[Terry]

I never paid much attention to the bulbs. Do you know the dates when different type bulbs were made?

Here's an interesting trolley from the teens with a Lionel motor jammed in it.

https://www.ebay.com/itm/model-train-0-scale-Trolley-Bing-chassie-Lionel-motor-f-only/264943100442?hash=item3dafd6e21a:g:7JUAAOSwlQNftGsE

[early0electric]

From what I've been able to discern, tipped bulbs disappeared about 1920 or so + or -. I don't have a definite date. But they sure look good on 700 series electrics!

[starfire700]

Agreed the tipped bulbs do look like the "cherry on top" for an early O electric or a No 6, or most any early loco.
I was able to find a box of large tipped globe bulbs that I use in lamp posts, but only illuminate on special occasions.

[Terry]

Here's something neat:

 

https://www.invaluable.com/auction-lot/unusual-lionel-prewar-master-carton-for-50-keys-f-864-c-00a492a8e9

Here's something I find interesting:

 

I've owned a few of these orange 815s and even still do. EVERY one I have ever examined shows signs of being taken apart. This one too:

Link: https://www.invaluable.com/auction-lot/nice-lionel-prewar-815-shell-tank-car-only-811-c-fc14c0aa03

Here's the coolest thing Stout has listed for next week:

 

10 years ago I'd be drooling on that. Here's the auction:

https://www.invaluable.com/auction-lot/very-rare-lionel-prewar-electric-annunciator-bell-904-c-8fe46ae9f5

That says something. This auction has wonderful mint boxed postwar, blue comet sets and nice IVES transition stuff along with a host of nice boxed plots and I'm looking at half a 69 bell signal in the box.

[Terry]

Here's some interesting things at Stout on Jan. 15th:

 

1935 Lionel 35th anniversary desk set. I've seen these before with a plane rather than the two pens.  Neat. See it here.

Here's a 1920s era Lionel Perpetual Clock:

 

This might be a 1920 20th anniversary item.  See it here.

[Terry]

Here's something weird. . .

A Lionel 39 set from the early 1920s.

 

 

 

It's really clean which must be driving the bidding as the set is now up to $1225.

I don't collect boxes, but I don't think those are the right trains for the box. That box is from 1920-23. In those years, the set would have had one dump car and one 117 caboose

The loco has a pedestal headlight which dates to 1918 and before.

The cars have black ends, and crinkle couplers. The cars are from 1916 and before.

Still a neat set, but for that price the bottoms of the cars should be yellow.

https://www.ebay.com/itm/LIONEL-BOXED-PREWAR-FREIGHT-TRAIN-SET-39-STANDARD-GAUGE-3-RAIL-ELECTRIC-38-600/114688182635

[starfire700]

The box dividers are home-made, not original, which further points to a "put-together" set.

[Terry]

Here's a caboose with the lettering on backwards. I've never seen this version.

 

 

A few days left to go and only $40. Might be a steal.

https://www.ebay.com/itm/Lionel-Postwar-6257-50-Caboose-Reverse-Lettering-Variation-w-Box-Rare-Nice/224367031083?hash=item343d51332b:g:M3EAAOSwdPxgOWW1

I looked in the most recent Greenberg postwar book and this is listed with no bump in price. Might be common, but I never noticed.

[Terry]

Here's something interesting:

 

A Lionel 1910  11 flat car.

https://www.ebay.com/itm/LIONEL-MFG-CO-11-FLAT-CAR-PREWAR-STANDARD-GAUGE-/203289375263?nma=true&si=F6bBASIzSP6NBg6O9lsW4Hruoq8%253D&orig_cvip=true&nordt=true&rt=nc&_trksid=p2047675.l2557

The car has red primer and straight couplers. It looks like the outside has been over-painted in brown. It certainly has the wrong trucks on it.

It sold for $260 which shows that there are at least 3 people looking deeply on eBay. (I didn't bid because I don't buy repaints.)

Here's a bottom picture:

 

[pjdog350]

The flat car has a screw holding on the tracks. Shouldn’t that be a rivet?

[Terry]

Screw is correct.

The early large freight cars - but not the flatcar - came with the trucks wrapped in paper inside the car and the buyer screwed them on. This means the car will not fit back in the box once the trucks are put on. This explains why the boxes are so hard to find.

[early0electric]

Now here's an interesting auction!

https://www.ebay.com/itm/114714023643?_trksid=p2471758.m4703

[Terry]

Mike -  I tried to come up with something snarky to say, but I'm just dumbfounded.

[early0electric]

Terry, so am I! Granted it's a boxed outfit but, !!!