General Discussion (Model Railroader)

R. T. POTEET wrote:

SteamFreak, I had never heard of Knapp either until the name was injected into this topic about three weeks ago; I never did google the name to find out what might be said about it but I was led to believe that they were one of the more significant manufacturers of the 1930s and, since they didn't cease production until 1945, they were, apparently the only manufacturer allowed to continue manufacturing model locomotives out of strategic metals during Big Brawl Two. I have been tugging on the chain of this individual who brought up the name since he first did so.

Since this thread started almost a month ago I didn't remember that they were mentioned, and it wouldn't stick with me anyway since it's not a name I recognized. Interesting bit of history, though. I wonder what it's true value is. Anyone hazard a guess?

SteamFreak wrote:

R. T. POTEET wrote: SteamFreak, I had never heard of Knapp either until the name was injected into this topic about three weeks ago; I never did google the name to find out what might be said about it but I was led to believe that they were one of the more significant manufacturers of the 1930s and, since they didn't cease production until 1945, they were, apparently the only manufacturer allowed to continue manufacturing model locomotives out of strategic metals during Big Brawl Two. I have been tugging on the chain of this individual who brought up the name since he first did so. Since this thread started almost a month ago I didn't remember that they were mentioned, and it wouldn't stick with me anyway since it's not a name I recognized. Interesting bit of history, though. I wonder what it's true value is. Anyone hazard a guess?

SteamFreak, don't take my comment seriously since I am exercising a little bit of levity this afternoon.

Without giving it too much thought at the time I think that Wills mentioned Knapp in one of his Colletor's Consist columns in RMC; this unit is not a Knapp, it is most likely in a Tenshodo box because it is a Tenshodo. The apparent rarity of Knapp units would infer that they are worth a great deal more money than this Tenshodo(?) unit went for. Even at one hundred and five dollars somebody just got themselves a real bargain!!! Even if this model never becomes more than a still feature on the mantelpiece it will still be a conversation-instigator!!!

R. T. POTEET wrote:

SteamFreak, don't take my comment seriously since I am exercising a little bit of levity this afternoon. Without giving it too much thought at the time I think that Wills mentioned Knapp in one of his Colletor's Consist columns in RMC; this unit is not a Knapp, it is most likely in a Tenshodo box because it is a Tenshodo. The apparent rarity of Knapp units would infer that they are worth a great deal more money than this Tenshodo(?) unit went for. Even at one hundred and five dollars somebody just got themselves a real bargain!!! Even if this model never becomes more than a still feature on the mantelpiece it will still be a conversation-instigator!!!

Ah. Got ya. It's Friday.

But even if that unit were a Knapp that cluck seller would have still sold it as a Tyco and lost out on beaucoup $$.

richg1998's 8:55am response is illuminating and casts considerable light on why this post took some of the turns it did since originated by loathar back when Custer was a plebe at The Point. We can conclude the following from his posted response:

1. The seller's misidentification of this unit as a Tyco brass locomotive gives credence to the fact that he or she was not a model railroader - this particular locomotive likely came into the seller's possession through either benevolence or inheritence; and

2. the seller's faulty identification can be attributed to the refutable documents found in the box which the seller erroneously concluded identified the unit as a Tyco; a person with some railroad knowledge could/would also have recognized that the 2-8-2 identification on one of these documents did not match the true identification of the unit i.e. a 4-8-2 wheel arrangement.

Whatever might be the truth of the matter whoever the buyer might be he or she came up with a windfall on this one!!!