Koll's price catalog
The Koll, or more precisely Koll's price catalog, is the most comprehensive and market-leading source of information among collectors of model railways from the Märklin company in H0 gauge.
The catalog was created out of the personal collecting passion of the author Joachim Koll and has been published since the late 1970s. The publication was later split up due to the enormous variety of Märklin products: the price catalog deals with the series products and the special catalog with all special versions that have become known. These publications appeared annually and were discontinued in 2018. In addition, there are still editions of the non-illustrated compact catalog in paperback format, which can be carried more easily on collectors' fairs and auctions .
In addition to large amounts of pictures and very detailed descriptions of the distinguishing features of models from many years of construction , the Koll also contains separate chapters on collectibles around Märklin. He describes the notorious “ zinc plague ” (long-term damage to old models made of poor, corrosion-prone metal alloys ), explains the auction process and addresses many other topics of interest to collectors.
Koll's price catalog deals exclusively with the Märklin model railroad in H0 gauge (called 00 gauge from 1935 to 1950). Exceptions are the two catalogs for Märklin Z gauge that were first published in 1996. One issue was devoted to the normal program on approx. 220 pages and a special catalog for the advertising and special models comprised around 280 pages. In 1997 the updated second editions for the mini-club were published with an expanded scope, around 580 pages in total. No new Z-gauge editions are currently planned.
literature
- Koll's price catalog . Verlag Joachim Koll, Bad Homburg vdH, ISBN 3-922164-42-0 .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Information from Koll-Verlag in November 2018 when the Koll's compact catalog 2019 was announced . Retrieved February 10, 2019 .
- ^ Information from Joachim Koll in 31 editions of Koll's price catalog in October 2009