O&S Scale: Advertisements

Catalogs & Other Paper Items

From 1950 to 1969, Plasticville catalogs were normally distributed only to dealers, either for their own use, or as a reference for their customers. Also listed in this section are the Plasticville Collectors Series Sheets which correspond to the King Distributing Series. Playguides and other Plasticville paper will be added in the future.

Plasticville Catalogs: 1950 - 1959

  • Comments: Reproductions of the 1950 and 1953 catalogs are known to exist. Viewed examples have the word "reproduction" rubber stamped in the lower right hand corner of the back page although not all may have this stamping. A distributor's name is printed on the back page of the 1950 reproduction rather than the usual rubber stamped distributor's name. The 1953 catalog has a small rectangle in under the letter E in the word NEW where it looks as if a small piece of the cover may have been missing. There is also what looks to have been a small tear at the bottom of the page immediately below the letter S in the word ITEMS. It shows as a vertical white line on the reproduction.
     
  • Blue and white or green and white folders were included with some pieces. There are at least 7 different forms of these folders.

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1950
Pages: 8
Size: 8.5" x 11"

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1951
Pages: 8
Size: 8.5" x 11"

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1952
Pages: 8
Size: 8.5" x 11"

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1953
Pages: 12
Size: 8.5" x 11"

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1954
Pages: 12
Size: 8.5" x 11"

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1955c
Pages: 12
Size: 11" x 8.5"

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1955p (Postman)
Pages: 12
Size: 11" x 8.5"

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1956
Pages: 12
Size: 8.5" x 11"

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1957
Pages: 12
Size: 8.5" x 11"

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1958
Pages: 16
Size: 8.5" x 11"

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1959
Pages: 12
Size: 8.5" x 11"

Plasticville Catalogs: 1960 - 1969

  • Blue and white or green and white folders were included with some pieces. There are at least 7 different forms of these folders.

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1960 - K
Pages: 12
Size: 8.5" x 11"

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1961 - L
Pages: 12
Size: 8.5" x 11"

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1962
Pages: 8
Size: 8.5" x 11"

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1963
Pages: 12
Size: 8.5" x 11"

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1964
Pages: 16
Size: 8.5" x 11"

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1965 (HO)
Pages: 8
Size: 8.5" x 11"

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1966
Pages: 8
Size: 8.5" x 11"

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1967
Pages: 8
Size: 8.5" x 11"

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1968 (H & NO)
Pages: 6 (part)
Size: 8.5" x 11"

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1969
Pages: -
Size: 8.5" x 11"

Plasticville Catalogs: 1970 - 1979

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1970 (HO)
Size: 8.5" x 11"

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1971
Size: 8.5" x 11"

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1972
Size: 8.5" x 11"

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1973
Size: 8.5" x 11"

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1974
Size: 8.5" x 11"

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1975
Size: 8.5" x 11"

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1976
Size: 8.5" x 11"

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1977 (HO)
Size: 8.5" x 11"

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1978
Size: 8.5" x 11"

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1979
Size: 8.5" x 11"

Plasticville Catalogs: 1980 - 1989

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1980
Size: 8.5" x 11"

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1981
Size: 8.5" x 11"

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1982
Size: 8.5" x 11"

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1983
Size: 8.5" x 11"

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1984
Size: 8.5" x 11"

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1985
Size: 8.5" x 11"

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1986
Size: 8.5" x 11"

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1987
Size: 8.5" x 11"

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1988
Size: 8.5" x 11"

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1989
Size: 8.5" x 11"

Plasticville Catalogs: 1990 - 1993

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1990
Size: 8.5" x 11"

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1990 - 1991
Size: 8.5" x 11"

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1991
Size: 8.5" x 11"

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1992
Size: 8.5" x 11"

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1993
Size: 8.5" x 11"

Playguides

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1957

Plasticville Collectors Series Sheets

King Distributing

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Cornerstore

1984
# Printed: 2000

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Mobile Home

1984
# Printed: 2000

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Apartment House & Add-A-Floor

1985
# Printed: 3000

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Windmill

1985
# Printed: 500

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Covered Bridge

1986
# Printed: 500

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Bank

1986
# Printed: 2000

Disneyland Jingle Contest

(promotion distributed by Bachmann)

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Front View

F.W. Woolworth Advertisements

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Year: 1953

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Year: Unknown

Keasbey & Mattsion Advertisement in Fortune Magazine

  • The ad is for asbestos-cement pipes to be used in your suburban town to help with the flight of people to suburbia. What is more fascinating — the interesting use of Plasticville or the fact that this company was so proud of their asbestos products? K&M went out of business in 1962 (they had been in Ambler, PA since 1881). CertainTeed was one of two companies who bought the site and continued to make asbestos products.

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June 1961