The Marx animals in my zoo

It seems so Andreas...
This means that the one and only(happily) WILLYBACOMAN has the original Marx red-virginiawhitetail-sitatunga-peredavid-wapiti-elk-fallow-dingsbums DEER!

Wow, that is very much luck for me...

WILLYBACOMAN wrote:

Wow, that is very much luck for me...

Yes it is for a friend!!

WILLYBACOMAN wrote:

Well, that wolf doesn't look bad either, but i think it was re-painted.
Here are some of my one coloured models, they are in about the 1:25 scale:

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Beaver

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Grizzly

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Shark

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The shark came from these series

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Red fox

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Virginia whitetaildeer

But there are more series, like farm, wildlife, circus and so on...

Willy? Isn't the white bear an American black bear? Why you call it grizzly, have you any reference document saying it? I have that figure and it looks an American black bear but maybe I'm wrong?
The beaver is surely an American beaver although we cannot see it in a figure but the standing pose is more common in American beavers and surely Marx made their woodland series inspired in American fauna.

I can understand why you think that about the bear, but it was ment to be a grizzly, speak American brwon bear, and as you said before, they made them after the American faune, so i suspect the beaver is American to...
I got the info from this one site, from which i gave you the link long ago on this forum, where you can spend weeks, only researching...

WILLYBACOMAN wrote:

I can understand why you think that about the bear, but it was ment to be a grizzly, speak American brwon bear, and as you said before, they made them after the American faune, so i suspect the beaver is American to...
I got the info from this one site, from which i gave you the link long ago on this forum, where you can spend weeks, only researching...

Thanks for the link, I never heard about it before. Do you know Willy, I think Marx sculptors were very competent and it is hard for me to understand why they forgot the hump that we find in grizzly bears. The morphology is typical of a American black bear, that obviously is also an animal of North American fauna. But when you are not sure you can always check Willypedia!

Did you find the link then Rogerio?
Yes, i agree on the baer, it misses the hum indeed, although most models were very accurate, specially for the time they were made in...
But this bear has a kind of beard to, which is not typical for the baribal i think...

WILLYBACOMAN wrote:

I didn't know this figurine, very nice indeed.
I think, it was one of the later coloured series, from which i don't own any of them...

Marx made one coloured animals in the first place in the 1950's and 1960's.
Here is the first Virginia Whitetail Deer

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But they made so much more interesting models...

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And that for the prude America of the 1950's and 1960's!

Could you imagine if Papo did this nowadays : D

I could imagine that any of those companies did this kind of work, but there are companies that do so indeed, if you search on ebay...

I got this 2 nice animals, but i dont know really if they are made by Marx (or copies)

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I thinked the right animal is a markhor but now i had seen it is a Eland  

Yes they look like Marx made in Hong Kong to me Andreas

Thank you Tim:-)

I have seen this bird figurine isnt here

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SO beautyful   

Thank you Susanne    

I agree with Susanne,this bird is beautiful.

Beautiful bird!

Many thanks Fernando and 4U      

I have a few Marx animals in various scales, and thought I might as well add them to this thread instead of starting a new one.

First up, large scale in hard plastic. I got them like this, and think they were factory painted (Hong Kong? Taiwan?). Does anyone here who knows more about Marx stuff than me know about them?

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Now some in a smaller scale. The top 3 in medium/soft plastic, the bottom two in harder plastic and from the individually boxed 'Animal Kingdom' set.

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Now normal scale unpainted animals

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Now most of the Marx nativity set, which includes some animals.

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I'd part with all except the 2 'Animal Kingdom' ones, the Ibex & Elephant, if someone 'makes me an offer I can't refuse', sale or vintage swap.

Very interesting models Dave!!

my new birds (one model kit)

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Great additions Andreas!

Thank you Tim     

WOW, Dave ! A few ! Such a bunch of beauties   

Btw, you can read some thing about Marx-toys, and find good links at the Toyanimal.info : http://toyanimal.info//index.php?title=Marx

Andreas That set is just fabulous ! Congratulations   

Do you have any doubles now ?