The model is all the more rare in working condition as the spring can't be changed - and few springs are going to last 120 years - the few boats that do work appear to have had their motor cut out and replaced with a later Marklin version...which is narrower and smaller and does fit in the opening in the hull)
Replacement masts , flags, 2 torpedo tubes and spotlight.. Motor works - key provided but not original.. Paint loss, rust and play-wear as per photos, numerous appropriate signs of age.
Also unusual to find with original funnels and the dust-cap which screws on and covers the winding arbor (the scarcity of the dust-cap is because the funnel has to be removed in order to remove the dust-cap from the winding arbor, so that the boat can be wound-up.........resulting in the 'round and roly' therefore easily lost dust-cap, or the funnel being usually missing, and in fact, both funnels are easy to remove, so both are usually missing) (Moreso, I haven't even seen another one with the dust-cap or original funnels). (Upon reflection, Marklin might have gone to the unusual lengths of putting a screw-on dust-cap over the winding arbor in order to protect the motor - given that the spring can't be changed if broken. - I don't know of any other German tin clockwork boat with this arrangement, although it is common on wooden boats and is seen on submarines whereby none of the German clockwork submarines had a replaceable spring - even though they were equally as large and expensive as the present boat in the day (reference the 76cm Marklin submarine). Also of interest; the hull and motor cover, both have the number 72 painted on; and the motor is stamped 72, so evidently each being made bespoke for this particular boat. Thus it is evident that unlike other boats from the period and later - that this is not just 'any generic motor' that will fit any boat. On other boats the motor was produced on a separate production line, and indeed those motors were also sold as a separate unit. (see my other Marklin motor I have for sale). The matching numbers indicating that each torpedo-boat is unique. This is likely the 72nd one made, especially judging by the relatively few that appear at auction. (I don't think this model was too popular or produced in great numbers due to the fact that the spring can't be replaced - making it rare and unusual for a big Marklin clockwork boat and more scarce with a working motor, although that was common on early German clockwork boats (especially submarines; of which large Marklin ones are a prime example; where and when it was necessary to seal the motor in totally and irreversibly in order to avoid water ingress; and of those, ones with the motor working in general are rare because they all rusted). It is also of interest that the hull of this boat is made of 2 sections, front and back, soldered together vertically in the middle. Other metal clockwork boats, from all countries, were all produced by a single pressing of the whole hull.
I am not sure about the compass on the bridge - which works and is old. Missing the wheel on top of the rudder post on the stern.
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