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Unknown Steam Engines:wave: I was out in my garage the other day and a fella stopped in to see my engines. We had a...this thread has 5 replies and has been viewed 855 times
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05-15-2009, 04:39 PM
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Unknown Steam Engines
 I was out in my garage the other day and a fella stopped in to see my engines. We had a good visit and he said that he had something I might be interested in. Yesterday he came back and gave me these steam engines. I know nothing about any of them. One is made from Meccano and it reverses direction. Another one looks like it is made from spare parts. The larger horizontal green on has 1618 on it. The smaller green one has no markings on it. Three of them are made in Germany and one has a word on it I cannot make out. They all but the one made from scratch operate with compressed air. I am curious of the value of this collection. 
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05-15-2009, 04:42 PM
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Unknown Steam Engines
 More pictures, Thanks for any info.
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05-16-2009, 02:09 AM
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Re: Unknown Steam Engines
The name you show in the last picture is Fleischman.
Google "Fleischman steam engine" and you should get some leads
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05-16-2009, 06:56 AM
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Re: Unknown Steam Engines
Do the same with Meccano, they were another of the erector style sets back in the day. From across the pond. The castings home shopped ones may be hard to identify as to maker. There have been so many kits cast and sold over the years. Unless somebody has one with info.
glen
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05-16-2009, 12:57 PM
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Re: Unknown Steam Engines
The two Fleischmann are German , made post WW2 , and I think yours look 1950's early 1960's and are (as mentioned by J. Newman) easily Googled.
The copper boilered one looks a like a late Fleischmann, BUT could be early Wilesco (as they bought Fleischmann out mid-60's). Wilesco still in business and on the web. The Meccano is a Mamod, built for Meccano toys till about 1966. The other three (two upright and one horizontal) are likely scale models from a kit, or castings (like Stuart Turner Ltd stuff), but unknown origin to me also. As to value, well I can't do appraisals, but many of your engines are missing some parts. The 3 scale models have no boiler, but they normally bring better value alone than a toy steam. All are items found on evil-bay. Good Luck 
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06-29-2009, 09:56 PM
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Re: Unknown Steam Engines
the two with the brass boiler look like mamed or wilesco, i have 3 wilesco and they look like that.
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