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Green Bessemer Boxcar


Don't fool with your monitor. What you see is what it is, a Bessemer Boxcar in GREEN. This demonstrates the caveat "never say never" especially with Marx!
We Marx tin collectors know that the boxcars came in red, blue, brown, yellow and orange, and, when the red is printed over white it creates what has become known as the salmon variation. How then do we explain this green one.

Thanks to Paul Mumford I have now had the opportunity to examine the car. Trip Riley and I examined it together and made the following observations.

Trip and I have determined that this cars is, without doubt, a legitimate color sample from either 1938 or 1939. This is especially interesting in that is is more proof the solid door boxcar was developed prior to WWII.

(Courtesy of Paul Mumford)