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Finds German Plastic Show T Cohn Western

Finds German Plastic Show T Cohn Western, some of our friends share with the items they found. It is interesting what turns up at a European toy soldier show. Also an update on the German Plastic Show.

Finds German Plastic Show Finds

Finds German Plastic Show copies — I informed Andreas that these figures are actually by T Cohn. According to Playset Magazine issue 110, T Cohn had to make its own figures after their supplier Lido had been sold. The figures were mostly copies of Marx.

T Cohn cowboy — The only question I have is these figures original or copies from Hong Kong? I do not see these figures often as they were only sold in playsets and a game. By the way, I like to use this figure in my modern setups.

One more other western item Andreas got was this Hong Kongcovered wagon. does anyone recognize it

Plaho Army Truck

Plaho truck — The other item we have seen in several photos of the German Summer Plastic Show is this truck. Andreas told me it is by Plaho. Here is what he said about the truck.
The wooden army truck was made by PLAHO in former Eastern Germany GDR (= German Democratic Republic). As it is typical for all communistic countries they always ha a lack of modern materials, so they used wood for their army toys up to the 1980s.

closeup of the Plaho truck — The name PLAHO stands for Plastik and Holz (= wood). So the army truck perfectly represents the production line of that state-owned firm. It has 8 infantrymen sitting on the back of the truck and two inside. The soldiers are made of a rubber-like soft-plastic and hand-painted.

Plaho soldiers — While the figures are more or less around 54mm scale, the truck is more in !.22 scale (if any). Today, 30 years after German reunification, military toys from GDR times are very much looked after by collectors.

Update

Couple of peopl — Detlef gave an update of the photo. this photo shows Detlef’s table .. left Alfred Plath author of the Timpo book “Timpo Toys the golden years of a Scottish toy factory” .. right Mr.Wolfram Schuchmacher Wanddersleb ..Timpo Collector

Markus Lecksheid and friend — Markus and Sibrand Wolters from the Netherlands

On the pic with Andreas and Detlef at the stand of Stefan Kuckuck looting .. He dissolved his circus collection

8 Responses to Finds German Plastic Show T Cohn Western

ERWIN SELL says:

July 19, 2020 at 5:15 PM

Never see those T Cohen figures before they are a mix of poses base in marx and mpc some poses to me.
I have a Plaho T60 and Army truck long nose as well w seated figures.
They made cannons as well to go with 1/26 scale alike Elastolin range figures made by most DDR toy makers.

Wayne W says:

July 19, 2020 at 5:31 PM

I picked up a bunch of the T Cohn figures along they way over the years; didn’t know until now who made them; figured they were Marx copies though. Thanks for the ID.

kent sprecher says:

July 19, 2020 at 6:00 PM

I think the T.Cohn figure running with pistol is based upon a Marx Untouchable figure. The Marx figure is holding an ax in his other hand. Remove the ax and he sort of looks like a cowboy although as Stad mentions he uses him in more modern settings. Most of T.Cohn own figures seem to be copies of Marx figures except the doll house family and some of the GIs in their WWII sets.

Daniel Murphy says:

July 19, 2020 at 8:06 PM

The wagon looks like those that were included in Dollar Tree cowboy and Indian sets not too long ago.

Jack Gibbons says:

July 20, 2020 at 11:32 AM

My mom brought home a used Brumberger set in 1970. It included these cowboys and Indians. Both sets had green, yellow, blue, and red figures. I do remember having only the cowboy poses shown above, including horses. I think there were maybe another two Indian poses, and a horse as well.

AJ says:

July 20, 2020 at 3:02 PM

Kent has an interesting history of T. Cohn, Brumberger, Bergen/Beton, etc. on his site.
http://www.angelfire.com/biz/toysoldierhq/Tcohn.html

- kent sprecher says:
  
  July 20, 2020 at 6:58 PM
  
  I just fleshed out the T.Cohn story.
  
- Jack Gibbons says:
  
  July 21, 2020 at 6:30 PM
  
  That’s the playset box, Fort Cheyenne. As it was used it only came with the fort walls and the figures. I am glad that I didn’t have the pink or purple cowboys. I would have to do some explaining to my friends.