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MARX WESTERN ACCESSORIES ID GUIDE

MARX TIN LITHO Western era buildings

The first Marx western tin building was the BAR-M-RANCH house used in early ranch sets circa 1951. The first Roy Rogers ranch sets used the same house but the BAR-M-RANCH sign over the door was removed.

- Ranch Instruction sheet, worn & tattered.

This is the second Roy Rogers ranch house made about 1955.

Nellebelle Roy Rogers jeep, hard plastic with metal roll bar (missing from above example).

These were also used in early Fort Apache playsets.

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Cavalry HQ + Stable .

- U.S. 20 Star flag, with hard plastic base and pole.

The US Cavalry supply "tin" building came with seven pieces of plastic accessories; porch, 2 doors, chimney, and tower (cupola) with roof and flagpole. Usually made in dark brown, but redbrown was used a few years as well.

Marx made a porches for both their Cavalry Supply Building and their small western cabin. Although similar they attach in a different manner. The Supply porch has two tabs at the top of the roof and two (broken off and not in picture) hooks at the base. The cabin has the end two rafters under the roof extend into pegs that plug into the cabin. Supply porch also has two horizontal beams between the roof support posts that the cabin porch is lacking.

Alaskan playset street front.

Wells Fargo playset street front.

Jail side town.

Saloon side town.

Rodeo chute with 3 doors.

Marx large Roy Rogers accessories, silver, HP as seen in Playset magazine issue #60.

RECAST PL-1047 Chuck Wagon Accessories ( made for 5-6 inch figures), all 21 pieces including 3 piece cupboard, stove and hanging box, brown SP.

Large chuck wagon smaller accessories.

Marx made a set of 16 larger scale weapons and inserted them into their header card bagged sets to increase piece count (Usually 4 per bag). They are from pioneer days through WWII. Originals are in silver soft & hard plastic while RECASTS have been made in blue and black soft plastic.

SP AND LARGER HP WESTERN ACCESSORIES

Alamo/ Ft Apache cannon

Marx made three molds to produce the above trees and cactus; PL-131 Trees (made 8 trees 4 scraggly & 4 Full), PL-148 Cactus making 6 cacti and PL-524 Pine trees making 4 "A"/Delta tree. Early versions (circa 1951-55) were made in hard plastic while later production was in polyethylene soft plastic.

Marx made 1/32 scale cacti for their western playsets populated with 45-60mm figures. They also made smaller versions for their western flat set and miniature "HO" sets.

Playset instructions said to cut the piece in half so these are usually found in two pieces.

Marx had two molds that made dead trees. PL-332 Had nine cavities and made thee sets of; one dead tree, + one large and one small boulder. PL-332A had 6 cavities and made two each of; one dead tree + one large and one small tree stump. Playsets would usually only get one of the groups of three.

Playset instructions said to cut the piece in half. So most were cut as seen above.

Ranch & Rodeo split wood fence

- NONE - Playset arrow, fleshtan.

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Sawbuck, redbrown. These were found in some of the early ranch playsets. (Photo courtesy Stad).

These were made first in silver and then in black. The black sprues were also put in some western sets as cavalry accessories. The campfire, coffee pot, frying pan and plate are also found on the cowboy accessory sprue.

The Marx cowboy and Indian accessory sprues were made in the same mold. In sets in which they were used together the mold would be run in yellow and then silver, the big sprue cut in half and sets would get the cowboy sprue in one color and the Indian sprue in the other.

The cowboy sprue accessories can be found in brown, silver and yellow. The campfire, coffee pot, frying pan and plate are also found on the ACW/Cavalry accessory sprue while the cow skull is also found on the Indian accessory sprue. the cowboy pistol has decoration on the grip that the ACW pistol is lacking. The (#) in front of each item indicates how many were found on each sprue.

The Indian sprue accessories are most often found in silver and yellow. Redbrown was used for the Custer set, red for Wagon Trains sets and perhaps other colors can be found as well. This set has been RECAST in black. The cow skull can also be found on the cowboy accessory sprue. The (#) in front of an item is the number found on one sprue.

OUTDOOR/INDOOR WESTERN ACCESSORIES

The indoor accessories seem to be made in either dark brown or butterscotch/tan. On the other hand the out door accessories were made in a wide array of colors (see above picture). Please list color preferences when ordering and we will supply it if available.

The Marx outside accessory sets for the Ranch Houses and Stockades.

Ranch playsets also included some nice indoors furniture. A small piece of black PVC tubing was included for the stove to serve as a chimney.

MARX made one outdoor and two indoor sets of accessories for their western town playsets. The pieces were usually made in dark brown, but both redbrown and tan (butterscotch) exist as well. There are many shades of dark brown so it is difficult to exactly match pieces.

PL-386 Old West Furniture Inside

The "Saloon" side indoor accessory set has 24 pieces making 23 assemblies including the swivel barber chair.

PL-387 Old West Furniture Inside

The "Jail Side" western town furniture mold produces 23 pieces including two identical desks.

PL-388 Western Town Furniture Outside

This mold made 21 pieces including 3 lanterns. 3 spittoons & 2 daily special signs. usually made in dark brown hard plastic, but tan/butterscotch and redbrown can be found. The mold was recast/reissue about 1990 for the NewMarx Gold Rush playset. These reissues were made in a dark chocolate brown semi soft plastic and a re now getting scarce.

MARX Wilderness Stockade, gate with 2 doors, 4 walls with ledges, 6 walls no ledges, HP as seen above, brown, This is the small stockade that came with some Marx Jungle playsets and the small Boonesborough play set.

Reissue Gold Mine Accessories, 8 Pieces making 6 items (3 piece ore cart). Made in tan.

Cabin (2 piece plug together), no name on sign. Brown HP.

Reissue Gateway, no name on sign. Brown, HP.

Reissue Marx undersea wreck (make neat mining cave/ hermits or trapper's dwelling), 2 piece assembly (skylight fits on top), brown HP.

Gate with blockhouse.

- Free standing block house.