Micromodel
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micromodel-315-17288840
title:
Micromodel
text:
Micromodels are a type of card model or paper model that was popular during the 1940s and 1950s in the United Kingdom. In 1941, Geoffrey Heighway invented and marketed a new concept in card models. He took the available concept of card models and miniaturized them so that an entire train or building could be wrapped in a packet of post cards. These packets usually sold for about a shilling, or pocket change. When he released his product in the 1940s it caught on and Micro-modeling became a natio
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wiki
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encyclopedia
description:
1940s model-making product
original url:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Micromodel
date created:
date modified:
2023-07-09T23:33:15Z
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