This may be of interest to you then...
![[Image: Screenshot-20200716-130659.jpg]](https://i.postimg.cc/B8bHJ4Y7/Screenshot-20200716-130659.jpg)
https://www.jauce.com/auction/l599390235
These ones are all after the mail hook was changed to a second tree, I know at least one exists in the earlier mail pole form. Add in the Tomica World one, and the Thomas version was released in both styles, although the mail hook version didn't make it out of Japan before the second tree was introduced
![[Image: Screenshot-20200716-131143.jpg]](https://i.postimg.cc/zVfgCJ5z/Screenshot-20200716-131143.jpg)
1992 Thomas the Tank Engine set
![[Image: Screenshot-20200716-130925.jpg]](https://i.postimg.cc/BXw1NdQx/Screenshot-20200716-130925.jpg)
1997 original US release of the Standard, later called the Medium, Thomas set
https://www.jauce.com/auction/l599390235
These ones are all after the mail hook was changed to a second tree, I know at least one exists in the earlier mail pole form. Add in the Tomica World one, and the Thomas version was released in both styles, although the mail hook version didn't make it out of Japan before the second tree was introduced
1992 Thomas the Tank Engine set
1997 original US release of the Standard, later called the Medium, Thomas set
I have a website where I have been writing about and photographing many of the sets and pieces that I find interesting.
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