Author: TIPP & CO. - NURNBERG TOY TRADE CATALOGUE -
Title: Reichsautobahn. Ein neues Autobahnspiel für Uhrwerk- und für elektrischen Antrieb, mit doppelten und einfachen Fahrbahnen, sowie Br:ucken und Abzweigungen/By-Pass Traffic. A complete Highway and byway system, with two and one way roads and bridges... [Original Ausgabe/orig. edn./Catalogue 1937 A].
Description: Nurnberg, Tipp & Co., 1937. Small folio, original partly illustrated wrappers, stapled. 12pp. of text in german, english, spanish and french. Numerous black/white illustrations in text, with extensive technical data, and retail-prices in german currency, Reichsmark (RM), traffic signs on page 10, illustrated suggestions for assembling more extensive road out lays on pp. 11/12. [Katalog 1937 A/Catalogue 1937 A]. A lavishly illustrated trade catalogue issued by a german mechanized/electric tin toy manufacturer at Nurnberg, Tipp & Co., presenting a model of a clockwork or electric operating highway with by-pass traffic system with cars, bridges and road signs, of which the cars may be turned on to side roads by operating switch levers. The cars are fitted with powerful clockwork or electric engines. An interesting and rare piece of advertising with prices. Very fine copy.

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