Mobtabo, a wooden construction system, including pins. Manufactured by ‘Vos & Vos C.V.’ in Kampen, The Netherlands.
Patented
The game is patented in Germany in July 1949 by the manufactures. Most likely it’s never sold as a product. The manufacture even tries to sell the patent (source: Delpher: advertisment from 1953 “De Telegraaf”).
Boxes
According the manual, there are 3 different boxes.
Box sizes: Box 0: 53 pieces, box 0a: 96 and box 1: 149 pices.
Parts
The system consists of different columns with groves and some plates. All nice metric dimensions, which actual fits well. Including the pins, a well defined construction could be build. No clue about lengte of metal(?) pins. Most likely metal nails with diameter of 2 [mm] and 10 till 15 [mm] long.
Manual
Photographs of manual for boxes 0 and 1:
The manual is printed by “Koopman te Kampen”.
If you would like to share a propper scanned manual…
Some system characteristics
Here a short list of some system characteristics and how it’s retrofitted into the virtual LeoCAD library:
| Part types: | Original: | Virtual: |
|---|---|---|
| Columns | Wood Square <14.3-14.3> | Single color pieces 14.5×14.5 |
| Columns | Wood Square <19.3-20> | Single color pieces 20×20 |
| Plates | Wood Thickness: <3-3.5> | scaled |
| Hole Bay size | D: 2[mm] each 10 [mm] | 10 [mm] |
| LeoCAD settings: | ||
| Draw line every X studs | – | |
| Snap XY | 1 [mm] 1/20 stud | |
| Snap Z | 1 [mm] 1/20 stud | |
| Rotations | 45/90 [deg] |
These columns have big tolerances, compared to many other systems.
Library information
Here an overview of the parts library:
