Märklin boxes

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Here is a summary of the various types of packaging used by Märklin for their products. The style of packaging is often used to date a particular item into a broad range of years. Paper products, including cardboard boxes also usually have a printing date on them that gives the month a year in which the box was printed. This provides a maximum age for the box. These packaging styles do not apply to Märklin's 1972-introduced Z scale product line.

Contents 1 Wooden 2 Brown 3 Red 4 Light Blue 5 Middle Blue 6 Orange 7 Sets 8 Yellow 9 Green 10 Multicolored 11 Blue, Red & Orange 12 Blue and white 13 Blue Plastic 14 Gray 15 White

[edit] Wooden

With straw packing.

[edit] Brown

The early boxes were brown card, held together by staples

[edit] Red

Locomotives and wagons came in red boxes

[edit] Light Blue

was used for locomotives, wagons and track. Initially locomotives were held in place by pieces of cardboard, later by a styrofoam insert

[edit] Middle Blue

[edit] Orange

Build up kits were in Orange boxes

[edit] Sets

Initially had a nice painting on the box

[edit] Yellow

Used for Accessories

[edit] Green

Lime Green used for special track items and dark green for some rollingstock

[edit] Multicolored

Locomotive boxes lost the painting of the prototype and instead had a multicolored box that did not depict the contents of the box.

[edit] Blue, Red & Orange

Later a transparent front allowed one to see the locomotive...

[edit] Blue and white

was used for almost everything...

[edit] Blue Plastic

Blue and transparent plastic with a cardboard sleeve was used for 3008 and 3009 locomotives only

[edit] Gray

Signified an item in the Digital line. There seems to be some variation in the Gray here too...

[edit] White