Old Photos - An Incomplete T. Cohn Fort Comanche

FOUND! Yet another folder of unedited photos were found on my computer. This time it was for an incomplete T. Cohn Fort Comanche set I sold off a few years back. Somewhere along the line I lost interest in trying to complete the set - and I already had several Old West toy forts anyway - so I sold it. Looking back I should have kept these but hey, it is what is is and at least I can look at the photos. 

One thing to note. People often refer to T. Cohn as 'Superior'. In point of fact T. Cohn never changed its name to 'Superior' - it was always 'T. Cohn'. That whole 'Superior' thing was the result of a marketing tag line: "Another Superior Toy" and people mistakenly started referring to the company as such!  Enjoy! Opa Fritz

I never did get enough walls to enclose the fort

The Fort Comanche sign is plastic and fits into holes at the top of the gate. Unfortunately, these signs are most often found broken

Is it just me or are these blockhouses cool looking?

One of the walls had three holes or ports in it, while the other had two

3-hole wall front

3-hole wall back

2-hole wall front

2-hole wall back

I blogged the photo essay for this stable back in 2013 but here's a whole 'new' set of photos taken in 2019

T. Cohn offered these rock piles in litho rock pattern and 'grass' covered options

T. Cohn Fort Comanche Stable v.2

It's been awhile since I featured any tin-litho on a Monday but we can chalk that up to sheer laziness. I simply don't feel like haulin' some of this stuff out and photographing it - I know, I know I need to get off my behind and get with the program :-) Today's tin building was actually a target of opportunity as it was sitting out in the open, but because it's in kind of sad shape I hadn't wanted to photograph it before. It's another of T. Cohn's stable buildings from one of their western fort playsets. They had made a Fort Superior, Fort Comanche, and Fort Davy Crockett each with its own centerpiece tin-litho building. From what I could ascertain, there were two different Fort Comanche buildings, one of which was featured here on Toys & Stuff back on Mar 18, 2013. That was a two-story affair with T.Cohn's smaller shed plopped on top of the main stable building and it clearly states 'Fort Comanche' on the front wall. Today's version simply has two signs labeled 'STABLE' and 'COMMANDING OFFICER' on the front. I have seen complete Fort Comanche sets with today's building included so am fairly certain that it indeed belongs to Fort Comanche. (This wouldn't be unusual as even Marx offered several different building's in their iconic Fort Apache playsets over the years). The building measures Base: 7 1/2" (19.1cm) W x 11 3/4" (29.8cm) L x  5 3/8" (13.7cm) o'all height. I believe my building was bought as part of a lot but because it was a version I didn't have yet I kept it, although as you can see by the photo's it's pretty rough, having a bunch of rust spots on the roof and base but for now though it's a keeper. Enjoy!

T. Cohn Fort Comanche Stable

I've had a cold the past few days and have really felt like dookie so this is gonna be a quick post. I checked my list and apparently there hasn't been any T. Cohn (a/k/a Superior) covered here on Toys & Stuff the past couple of years but they did in fact give Marx a run for the money when it came to nicely detailed tin-litho buildings. Most people tend to think of Fort Apache when talking about Old West playsets with forts but T. Cohn made several nice tin-litho forts of their own with large tin centerpieces. The version shown here today has the main building with a block house on the top and was part of the Fort Comanche playset. The base measures 7 1/2" (19.1cm) x 11 3/4"(29.8cm), the overall height 8" (20.3cm). Other versions were sans blockhouse or they had the same shed as used in T. Cohn farms placed atop the roof. Enjoy!