Toys from the Past: Tiger (Cards)

Tuesday, July 28, 2015

#572 TIGER QUARTETT - MOTORAD WM (4241), TOLLE JETS (Nr. 4253), LOKOMOTIVEN and MOTO CROSS WM (Around 1978)

Just the pictures of three more quartets, see previous entry for more information!

TOLLE JETS (Nr. 4253) - Based on Tolle Jets by Piatnik? (later reissued with a few changes as "Flugzeuge" Nr.4243)

MOTORAD WM (4241) - This card is a Piatnik quartet, probably a later versión of the deck shown here (#351), which had the number 4233. Both sets share a lot of cards, but there are a few ones which are different.

MOTO CROSS WM - Based on Piatnik's MotoCross WM Nr. 4249

UPDATE 1 (May/2017) Added Lokomotiven. Thisdeck is based on FXSchmid Dapfloks, only the cover card does not match the theme... Ithink this was normal in Tiger Quartets, because with a more generic title like Lokomotives, they could sell different sets.

FACTS AND FIGURES:

Name: MOTORAD WM (4241), TOLLE JETS (Nr. 4253), LOKOMOTIVEN and MOTO CROSS WM
Year: Around 1978
Company: Tiger (Germany, Austria)

Saturday, July 25, 2015

#571 TIGER QUARTETT- TIERE (Nr. 73), STÄDTE (Nr. 74), SCHIFFE (Nr. 76) and RENNWAGEN (Nr. 79) (1972)

I have bought a few more decks by Tiger, and I will present them in this and the next entries. There is not much to add to the introduction made in entry #337, the only difference is that this time I have two decks which are older than those shown in the first entry.

I remember there were at least 3 "releases", each one characterized by a reference number (either 2, 4 or no digits). According to quartettblog.wordpress.com (very nice blog in German, recommended!), these three releases were:

1972 (2-digit reference number): Schwarzer Peter (Nr. 71), Blumen (Nr. 72), Tiere (Nr. 73), Städte (Nr. 74), Tierbabies (Nr. 75), Schiffe (Nr. 76), Flugzeuge (Nr. 77), Autos (Nr. 78), Rennwagen (Nr. 79)

Late 70s (4-digit reference number): Motorrad WM (Nr. 4241), Exotische Tiere (Nr. 4245), Tolle-Jets (Nr. 4253), Tierbabies (Nr. 4256), Schnelle Eisen (Nr. 4259)

Late 70s (No reference number): Airlines, Autos, Auto-Cross, Auto-Rennsport, Crazy Cars, Dicke Brummer, Dragster, Formel 1 WM, Hobby-Flitzer, Klassische Renner, Lokomotiven, Militärflugzeuge, Miniflitzer, MotoCross WM, Motor Monster, Motorräder, Motoryachten, Rennfahrer, Rennwagen, Schiffe, Schnelle Eisen, Schwarzer Peter, Sportwagen-Stars, Tiere, Tierfamilien, Tolle Autos, Tolle Bauten, Tolle Coupés, Tolle Flitzer, Tolle Flugzeuge, Weltrekord Fahrzeuge, Windjammer, 200 km/h-Club

SCHIFFE (Nr. 76) - based on "Schiffe" by Piatnik (Nr. 4242)

RENNWAGEN (Nr. 79) - based on "Rennwagen" by Piatnik (Nr. 4229)

These three cards promoting other Piatnik sets were in the box of "Rennwagen", but I cannot assure, that they were originally included, or if they were put in afterwards.

In the first entry dealing with Tiger decks, there was another versión of "Rennwagen", but they are completely different decks.

UPDATE (May/2017) Added Tiere Quartet (Nr. 73), based on a newer version of Piatnik's Tier Quartett (Nr. 279) - Box is maybe not the original one. This deck has only 6 families... Or is it not complete?

UPDATE2 (Nov/2019) Added Städte Quartet (Nr. 74), based on Piatnik's No.287 It looks slightly newer than the deck shown some years ago, see #183. Note that the numbering is different in each deck, although the cities are the same.