Kraus Fandor 20-Volt Gauge-0 Railway Set with Steam Locomotive, MITROPA Carriages and Station Building
Tinplate, lithographed, painted, 20-volt electric drive. Extensive Kraus Fandor gauge-0 railway set comprising the following items: 1) Steam locomotive inscribed "KRAUS" and "20 Volt", black-painted with red lining and red spoked wheels, fitted with electric headlamp. 2) Coal tender, black, matching the locomotive. 3) MITROPA dining car, reddish-brown lithographed, inscribed "SPEISEWAGEN MITROPA SPEISEWAGEN". 4) MITROPA sleeping car, reddish-brown lithographed, inscribed "SCHLAFWAGEN MITROPA SCHLAFWAGEN". 5) Shell tank wagon, yellow lithographed with Shell logo and inscriptions "Elberfeld" and "Hamburg". 6) Milk wagon, cream-coloured lithographed, inscribed "Milchwagen" and "Erfurt". 7) Refrigerator wagon, cream-coloured lithographed, inscribed "Kühlwagen" with route designation "Berlin". 8) Luggage van, dark green painted. 9) Cattle wagon, white with lattice sides. 10) Two low-sided flat wagons, black and brown. 11) Timber wagon with wooden barrels. 12) Large station building by Kraus Fandor, yellow-painted with green roof, station clock, side inscriptions "Wirtschaft" and "Gepäck", attached goods shed and small exit building. 13) Ticket office, yellow/green, inscribed "Fahrkarten" with network map and signs "Zugang" and "Ausgang". 14) Signal box with lithographed brickwork, red roof and semaphore signal. 15) Level crossing with barrier and green platform. 16) Platform direction sign with "München" and "Stuttgart" indicators. 17) Tinplate pedestrian overpass in lattice construction with semaphore signal. 18) Arc lamp/platform lantern. 19) Double-arm semaphore signal on lattice mast with coloured lights. 20) Water crane/fuel column. 21) Track system with electric 20-volt points (Kraus Fandor logo and "20 Volt" imprint on point base), curves and straight track sections. Heavily played-with condition; the absence of smaller, delicate attached parts cannot be entirely excluded. Function not tested. Viewing recommended.
Please inspect. The tinplate toy factory Josef Kraus & Co., known under the brand name "Fandor", was founded in 1910 by Josef Kraus together with Milton and Julius Forchheimer in Nuremberg and ranked among the significant German manufacturers of tinplate railways in gauge 0 and gauge 1. The company manufactured both clockwork-driven and electric locomotives; the present 20-volt system belongs to the more powerful variants intended for larger layouts. The MITROPA carriages (Mitteleuropäische Schlafwagen- und Speisewagen-Aktiengesellschaft, est. 1916) are particularly sought after by collectors, as is the Shell tank wagon with its characteristic yellow lithography. The large yellow station building with the inscriptions "Wirtschaft" and "Gepäck" corresponds to the Kraus Fandor station model 2049 (produced c. 1926–1934). The Kraus company was forced to cease production before 1933, with distribution continuing until 1936. Sets of this scale comprising locomotive, numerous carriages, station buildings and extensive accessories are rarely preserved in such completeness.
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