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Hacksaw-BoB
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 Posted: Fri Jan 21, 2011 8:57 pm Post subject: HUKI AA-124 Split Window VW ?? |
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HUKI AA-124 Split Window VW ??
I picked this VW toy Split Window VW many years ago. It has all the features of a vintage tin HUKI Split VW toy but with a license plate of 'AA-124".
Normally the HUKI VW toys used a "HK" letters in the license plates. I have asked about its origin to several German Toy Museums and collectors with no explanation. HUKI made a very nice KdF Wagen era Toy the same size in the early 1940s and they had the lithograph design process defined back at those times and produced nice tin VWs in the post war period.
So why this AA-124 Volkswagen with the lithograph design off centered and some what crude like a prototype ??
Can any one help with the origin of this AA-124 Volkswagen??
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IN2VWS
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| Posted: Thu Mar 02, 2017 2:52 am Post subject: Re: HUKI AA-124 Split Window VW ?? |
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link doesn't work for me Bob
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Hacksaw-BoB
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| Posted: Thu Mar 02, 2017 9:30 am Post subject: Re: HUKI AA-124 Split Window VW ?? |
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Hi John,
The original link above worked OK for me . . .
I just did an edit for the link to be normal size and no color . . .
Give it a try . . BoB
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| Posted: Fri Mar 03, 2017 1:44 pm Post subject: Re: HUKI AA-124 Split Window VW ?? |
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Thanks.
Still didn't work on my Mac using Safari, but works in Firefox.
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| Posted: Tue Mar 07, 2017 1:11 pm Post subject: Re: HUKI AA-124 Split Window VW ?? |
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With the tampo design being off, I would equate it to just being a mistake model what wasn't loaded properly for the artwork to be applied. I see this a lot with Hot Wheels where the artwork is printed in a different spot of the body or in some cases not at all.
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| Posted: Thu Mar 09, 2017 8:43 pm Post subject: Re: HUKI AA-124 Split Window VW ?? |
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I agree seeing some of the artwork shifted on the tampo designed and processed toys . . . . .
usually of the diecast mass produced toys these days.
This particular AA-124 Split Window VW used a different process to make the toy.
This is a lithograph design printed on a flat piece of tin plate metal.
The lithographed tin plate is placed into a metal die and is pressed into the VW body shape.
If the lithograph tin plate is not aligned in the metal die press correctly . . then all the distortion happens.
But back then in the 1950s . . who cares . . it is just a cheap penny toy !!
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