Lionel 0032 x10 2 Rail Scale "OO" GAUGE straight track rare box inserts MOB 1939

Description

This 1939 to 1942 Lionel issue box and original contents of Bakelite road bed scale T-rail track was captioned "TEN SECTIONS No. 0032 "OO" GAUGE TWO RAIL STRAIGHT TRACK" but has no display of a number for the set of ten 0032 and/or box part number. Available to dealers when  sections were ordered but not cataloged except as individual sections. The box is complete with minimal seam separation but has accumulated a lot of brown discoloration of the white and orange surfaces of the box surface. The track sections appear to have been kept in the box perhaps the entire eighty or so years with only a random one having been pulled out one at a time for a look see. The inserts that divide the sections into groups of two appear to have been cut from a card Lionel graphic placard that was especially designed to be cut into strips for the purpose. One would have to accumulate a lot of boxes with inserts to find all the strips that would make a complete placard. Roughly eight to twelve of the correct strips would solve the puzzle of what the complete printed graphic would look like. Even if the strips were used in sequence on a sequence of boxes that were being packed a collector would have to happen upon a series of boxes that were packed in a sequence. Alternatively the collector would have an even more longer random effort of finding the correct strips if the strips were inserted randomly after being cut from the original placards. I have listed the country of manufacture as Unknown because I have always believed that the design was too similar to a European HO track (Trix) that Lionel probably subcontracted it.