The recent item by Ed Berg about the Empire Plastic Corp. vehicle and building set was great.
I was inspired to see what else the company did, and came up with this wonderful Little House Painter Set. It appears to use the same three buildings that were in the vehicle set.
The vehicle set had three buildings in yellow, red, and blue. While this Little House Painter Set has them moulded in white plastic, which makes sense.
Also included were six cakes of safe, water-mixed paints; and a brush. The card states that 'colors can be washed off with water'. All mounted on a yellow and green card.
The paint colours appear to be red, yellow, orange, green, brown, and blue (I think).
What a great set. I love it.
Some more photographs from Worthpoint:
The address is given on the card as Empire Plastic Corp, Pelham Manor, (N.Y. ?), New York.
This selection of old trade advertisements shows that the buildings were available in a three-piece House Set, No.1008; in the carded Little House Painter set; a boxed Little House Painter set; and with a selection of road and rail vehicles, as shown earlier.
Another company called Keystone made larger buildings of wood, that also came with washable paints, so that the building could be re-painted as many times as you wanted.
One photograph from Worthpoint
Paul Adams from New Zealand
