Original Item. Only One Available. This is an exceptional set of two (2) Louis Marx & Co. toy vehicles, two 1930’s era mechanical tanks, one with a pop-out rifleman. The craftsmanship is remarkable, and it is evident that the creator took great care in every detail of both pieces. One is functional.

The first toy, the 1930’s toy tank with a pop-out rifleman, is fully mechanical and does not function. It measures 10” long, 4” wide, and 5” tall. The design is a classic inter-war style tank on caterpillar tracks. There is a small hatch on the roof that, when opened, brings out a small American rifleman in a red uniform with a helmet and sergeant stripes. There is a small lever to the right side of the tank with two positions, STOP and START. The tank is not functional. The back of the tank is marked MADE IN U.S.A. MARX TOYS PAT’S PEND’G.

The second toy, another 1930’s toy tank, has rubber caterpillar tracks, and a rotatable turret. It’s marked E12 on the side. There is a lever on the side that, when twisted, winds up the toy, and it begins to creep forward. It is not perfect and goes very slowly, but works. It is marked MARX TOYS with a patent number.

Louis Marx and Company was an American toy manufacturer in business from 1919 to 1980. They made many types of toys including tin toys, toy soldiers, toy guns, action figures, dolls, toy cars and model trains. Some of their notable toys are Rock'em Sock'em Robots, Big Wheel tricycles, Disney branded dollhouses and playsets based on TV shows like Gunsmoke. Its products were often imprinted with the slogan "One of the many Marx toys, have you all of them?"

Marx is well known by collectors and some kids for making good quality toy soldiers. These sets were often known as ''Battleground'', offering Germans and Americans. Though there also were Pacific sets, which had Japanese soldiers and combat planes, such as the Zero.

Some of their most popular sets were ''Navarone'' (basing on the film), ''Iwo Jima'', ''The Alamo'' (basing on the film) and more sets based in movies and series, such as The Gallant Men, especially in John Wayne and the films he was in.

This is a wonderful opportunity to add a fantastic pair of collectible toys to your displays! Comes ready for further research and display.