Table of Contents

This Page

(Scroll down to view playsets on this page.)

Other Pages

Back to Revolutionary War Table of Contents

Back to Main Table of Contents

List of Marx Revolutionary War Playsets

Name:  Revolutionary War Set Number:  3401  (Series 500) Year first issued:  1957

Comments Although similar to #3403 below, this was the smallest of Marx Revolutionary War playsets, but it still included 75 figures, 39 Continental soldiers (in 10 poses) and 36 British (in 6 poses).  This and Fort Mohawk (see below) were the only Marx playsets to include an American 13-star flag.  Other Revolutionary War sets had the Sons of Liberty flag.

Source(s) PFPC 32 and SE, PM 39

Recent Price Lines I Have Noticed
	$495	June 2011	Asking price by vendor at Marx Convention.

 

Name:  Johnny Tremain Revolutionary War Set Number:  3402 (Series 1000) Year first issued:  1957 Photo courtesy of Mark Novack, Ebay brtcarguy

Comments This is the only set that included the 6-piece Johnny Tremain character set:  Johnny Tremain, Paul Revere, James Otis, Cilia, Rab Silsbee, and Sam Adams.  Otherwise it is almost identical to #3404 below, except it has no Indians.

Source(s) PFPC 32 and SE, PM 39

Name:  Revolutionary War Set Number:  3404  (Series 1000) Year first issued:  1957

Comments This was the largest set issued the initial year, including 36 British soldiers, 39 Continental soldiers, and 14 54mm Indians (no mounted chief figure).  It also included the tin litho tavern, the Sons of Liberty flag, tin litho stone walls, a special Revolutionary War cannon in gold, and a set of the 17-piece Revolutionary War accessories.  Horses were wild west style.  Unlike #3401 and #3402 above, this set also included a second cannon, Fort Apache style.

Source(s) PFPC 32 and SE, PM 39

Recent Price Lines I have noticed
	$623	November 2011	Ebay	Nice deal for buyer, included two tin litho cabins with center chimneys

Name:  Fort Mohawk Number:  3751 Year first issued:  1958 Photos courtesy of collector Butch Parker

Comments After beginning to believe this set was never released, collector Butch Parker corrected me with photos of his playset box.  I am uncertain of its contents, but would assume it is similar to #3752 below, with perhaps a few less pieces.  Butch reports that it included the blockhouse with "Fort Mohawk" heat-stamped on it in yellow, as mentioned in comments for the Fort Mohawk playset below.

Source(s) None, except listed in 1994 PFPC Special Collectors' Edition.  Photos of box above provided by collector Butch Parker.

Recent Price Lines I have noticed
	$786	October 2012	Ebay

Name:  Fort Mohawk Number:  3752 Year first issued:  1957

Comments This may have been the playset that introduced Marx' attractive 2-story blockhouse, later used in several wild west sets and the 1959 Revolutionary War Set #3408 below.  The blockhouse replaced the tin litho tavern and has the name "Fort Mohawkk" heat stamped on it in yellow.  According to an article in Toy Soldiers and Collectibles magazine Issue 3, the set included a "rich chocolate brown" Fort Apache-style stockade with nine walls and a gate with no name overhead.  The set included British and Continental soldiers (no mounted Continental), as well 54mm Indians in a flat yellow color, including the mounted chief and a running Indian horse.  It also had the Revolutionary War gold cannon, and the 13-star flag.  (Note that an Ebay seller stated the stockade included was the smaller Jungle style gate and walls, as used in set #3408 below.)

Source(s) PFPC SE, Toy Soldiers and Collectibles magazine Issue 3, photos of original playset box from Ebay auctions and other sources.

Name:  Revolutionary War Set Number:  3408 Year first issued:  1959

Comments Like Fort Mohawk above, this playset had the 2-story plastic blockhouse and the jungle-style fort, but also included two small tin litho cabins.  This was the only set to include this style of cabin, which have chimneys placed in the center of the roofs.  Figures were reduced to 24 Continental (none mounted) and 24 British soldiers, and wild west horses were replaced by U.S. Cavalry horses.  The set lacked any flag or gold cannon, but included two Fort Apache style cannons. one black and one silver.

Source(s) PFPC 32 and SE, PM 39

Name:  Miniature Revolutionary War Play Set Number:  unknown Year first issued:  1964

Comments This miniature set included poses copied from the 60mm Warriors of the World figures, downsized to about 1-1/4 inches tall.  It included four cannons, a 4-horse limber and cassion, and two "destroyed" cabins.  According to PM 39, it included only one horse...for the Paul Revere figure.

Source(s) PFPC 18, PM 39

Name:  Heritage Sons of Liberty Number:  4170 Year first issued:  1972

Comments After a dozen years in storage, the Revolutionary War molds were revived for the Heritage playset.  Contents were largely the same as the 1950s' versions, with the tin litho tavern, Sons of Liberty flag, and gold cannon.  However, the tin litho stone walls were replaced with low plastic walls (borrowed from Flintstone playsets!), and new stands of trees (four connected trees that could be divided into two halves) replaced the older style trees.  Horses were the U.S. Cavalry style.

Source(s) PFPC 32 and SE, PM 39 and 40

Recent Price Lines I Have Noticed
	$275	June 2011	Asking price by vendor at Marx Convention.

Contents of this web site may not be reproduced or duplicated for use on the Internet or for commercial purposes without permission by Eric Johns.