Lionel pre-191 red crackle

LIONEL 191 VILLA PRE-WAR RED CRACKLE

 

191 Villa manufactured by Lionel 1923-32, uncataloged and available on scenic plots through 1942. Steel construction, two-story plus attic design with added wing (called 'sun porch' or 'train room' by collectors). Enameled base, walls, hip roof with chimney and with or without two large dormers. Separate window and door inserts. Open porch area with flat roof surrounded by decorative railing. Wing with ten windows and flat roof surrounded by decorative railing. Some with decal or rubber-stamped 'NO. 191 VILLA/MADE BY/THE LIONEL CORPORATION/NEW YORK' in black on underside of base. Illuminated. 7 1/8 x5 x5 1/4 high. Many different variations are known. Bases may be painted mojave, tan, hiawatha gray or pea green. Walls may be enamelled cream, yellow, terracotta or red crackle, or lithographed to represent dark or light red brick. Porches may be enamelled ivory, cream or yellow. Dormers (when present) may be enameled cream, yellow, sand, light red, crackle red or pea green. Roofs may be enamelled red, light red, pea green, apple green or gray. Porch roofs may be cream, sand, mustard, mojave or hiawatha gray. Window inserst may be ivory, pea green, apple green or Stephen Girard green. Doors may be ivory, brown, maroon, red, pea green, apple green, Stephen Girard green or simulated wood grain. Chimneys may be lithographed brick or enameled cream, sand or yellow. Roof railings may be brass, nickel, pea green, dark

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