Christmas - First Day of Issue: October 28, 1992 29c

Original Vintage Card
  
Sale Price: $4.95
Original Price: $8.95

Stock #:235596
Type: Postcard
Era: Continental Chrome
Artist: Chris Calle
Publisher: Fleetwood
Postmark: 1992 Oct-28
Postmark City: New York
Postmark State: NY
Stamp: 29c
Size: 4" x 5.75" (10.25 x 15 cm)

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First Issue Location: New York, NY Each fall, Moms and Dads across America scout discount emporiums and toy stores in search of the perfect toy train set. Over the next several months, they work frantically to complete their project. A plywood base is carefully covered with material simulating the color and texture of grass. Rails are attached; crossing signs and station houses go up. If parents have been duly industrious, the set is ready for action on Christmas morning. First produced in the late 1880s, toy trains were manufactured in large quantities over the next several decades by American companies such as Lionel Corporation, Louis Marx and Company, American Flyer Manufacturing Company and Ives Corporation. As time passed, toy trains became more life-like, and many aficionados responded by creating elaborate surroundings for their sets. A toy locomotive takes center stage on the self-adhesive postage stamp on this First Day of Issue Postcard

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