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1950's Plasticville USA Platic Fence & Accessory Collection

  Lot # 037
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Very Good for age but shows signs of use
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Lot # 037
System ID # 2773376
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This Lot consists of the original Plastic Fences that started it all to include 8 sections of White Picket Fence, the Water Pump and Well. Also, 5 Trees, Two Potted Frosted Trees, One Frosted Tree and a Nativity Scene which most likely is not part of the Plasticville Collection.

After the war, Bachmann executives wanted to expand and chose miniature plastic fencing. They knew how popular displays at the base of Christmas trees had become and hoped to capitalize on that trend. They unveiled their original 16-piece fence and gate set in an advertisement for Monsanto plastics published in the November 23, 1946, issue of the Saturday Evening Post. Ironically, they pictured the fence alongside a Lionel train, among other new toys, all made of Monsanto's new Lustron polystyrene plastic. Bachmann didn’t actually market the fence until May 1947. At that time, it touted the product as a "Christmas fence" for use in Yuletide displays known as "Christmas gardens." But the fence was nine feet tall in O gauge (Lionel) scale, thus it resembled a fence around a prison garden.