Plastic Massey Harris

[Alwin van Hattem]

Recently I found this plastic Massey Harris, its not an exact copy of the Lesney one but it has the same size and they look good next to each other.

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[toysnz]

Certainly is an interesting piece! Any manufacturer's mark or country of origin details?

Ian

[GHOSTHUNTER]

The plastic Tractor is a dead ringer of the 'LIPKIN' model of which versions do exist, but the rear tyres are totally different to those used on 'LIPKIN-PIPIN' (Pipin being a later branding), Tractors.

Some of the tooling from Rapheal Lipkin went to the Lines Bros company who maintained many product lines, but I have not found a plastic Tractor within their toy ranges that lok like the one in the above pictures.

If good clear close-up pictures could be shown of the underside, we may see some evidence of blanked-out brand names or logos.

Ghosthunter.

[Alwin van Hattem]

Cant see anything on the base, there is a logo of the company KAKURO on the sides and I just discovered ''Made in W-Germany'' behind the rear wheel

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[GHOSTHUNTER]

Great spot finding the brand name.

'KAKURO' were current through the 1960's, with a wide range of plastic toys (the tractor is Polythene, a bit like the Tudor Rose toys), and they had at least 8 copies of Matchbox regular wheel models including the #44A Rolls-Royce.

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This brand was not imported into the UK, so there are very few examples of their toys here. I imagine a search on German ebay may show more of their toys, but hey are quite hard to find wherever you look!

Ghosthunter.

[Alwin van Hattem]

Thanks for the extra information! Those miniatures are interesting.

[toysnz]

Very hard to find any info on these Kakuro toys... here's a photo with what looks like a large copy of a Matchbox/Dinky dumper

Ian

[Miller]

You have to search for "Karlmann Kutschka"

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