Bing Windup Car- Crocodile Pattern Limousine *SOLD*

Bing Windup Car- Crocodile Pattern Limousine For Sale N5461

We rate this pattern as extremely rare, in fact, possibly the only extant copy.  This treasure has passed from auction to Australia and sold at a high end auction, then back here to the US.  The toy has had doors replaced and a restoration to straighten the roof.  One wheel is likely a replacement too.

This said, where can one find another?  These gaudy show cars were made to impress.  -Made to outdo others in the roaring 1920’s and then it abruptly stopped with the Great Depression.  Our toy is Opulance on a rolling chassis.

Size is quite large as shown, and the toy comes with a chauffeur that is ready for action.  The windup works.

Marked Gebruder Bing of Nuremberg

Bing Corp. New York City, New York
1924 – 1935
Founder: John Bing
Spin-off of German firm, Gebruder Bing.
Served as jobber for parent firm with mechanical boats, zeppelins, and steam engines.

Gebbruder Bing Nuremberg, Germany
1866 – 1933
Karl Bub; toy trains/Fleischmann; toy boats
Founder: Brothers Ignatius and Adolph Bing
Spring-driven toys
Wide-range of spring-driven, cars, buses ,boats. Perhaps its biggest coup was a line of trains initiated in 1882. Bing went under during the crash of 1929; Karl Bub acquired the toy trains division and Fleischmann the toy boats.