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The #309 Church set revisited...
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Sat, 10 Jul 2004 15:56:01 GMT
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This followup was sent to just lugnet.inst. However, I am reposting it to
lugnet.general, since my reply is of a more general nature..... G. Istok
In lugnet.inst, Thomas Eipp wrote:
> In lugnet.general, Allan Bedford wrote:
> > I was looking for something on Peeron today and quite by accident stumbled upon
> > this set:
> >
> > http://guide.lugnet.com/set/309_2
> >
> > Unfortunately, there are no instructions linked from Brickshelf.
> >
> > The design of the building struck me as interesting, especially when I saw the
> > piece count for the 1x2 white bricks. From what I can make out in the LUGNET
> > picture it's almost as though they've used the 1x2's in a very 'brick-like'
> > manner. In other words it looks like the walls were built with very small
> > units, just like a real wall, as opposed to using longer stretcher bricks (1x6's
> > or 1x8's) that might have been more common in some of the LEGOland sets in the
> > 70's.
> >
> > Anyway, I was just curious if anyone happened to have the instructions for this
> > set that they might be willing to scan and share. Or, perhaps someone can point
> > me at instructions for a building that uses a similar construction technique.
> >
> > Thanks in advance,
> > Allan B.
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> Hay Allen
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> I did a search on google and found thus site. May be what you are looking for.
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> http://www.kleinesteine.de/info/309/
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> Scroll down to bottom and find link to instructions they did, plus some history
> on the set.
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> Cheers
>
> Thomas Eipp
This set was produced from 1957 (when classic Lego windows first came out) until
about 1963. The set had one tree, one of the 1950's style flat Pine trees with
a flat bottom. One interesting thing is the named beam (sign). On the box it
shows "1762", while in the set the 1x6 named beam says "Anno 1762". This
anomaly is common in early Lego sets. 1x6 named beams are known to exist with
both "1762" and "Anno 1762" variations.
This set was one of the Town Plan sets (1957-65), before there even was a
complete Town Plan set (#810 in Europe/#725 in USA/Canada, 1960-66). It was a
companion set to: #306 "VW Showroom", #307 "VW Repair Shop", #308 Fire Station,
and #310 "Esso Service". None of these sets were ever sold in the USA or
Canada, except of course for the #725 Town Plan set.
Check out the website of the German collector that has this set. One of the
photos shows the set assembled. Notice the warped Cellulose Acetate bricks and
how the finished building looks rather disappointing because of it.
These early sets get discussed at length in my new CD/Book, as does the
cautionary topic of buying Cellulose Acetate sets.
One other note of interest is that the instructions for this set are in the
inside lid of the box top, a common practice in the 50's and 60's. There were
no separate paper instructions in those days. And unlike today, the
instructions are rather general. Most buildings back then only showed a model
in 4 stages of constructions, and you never saw a construction from the back.
In some instances you had to guess. Today (pardon my prejudice) most
instructions are what I call "spoon feeding" (every last piece is shown for
installation). Of course in the 50's and 60's there were only bricks, windows
and doors, not a bazillion different elements that can be assembled in many
different ways.
Gary Istok
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Message has 1 Reply:
 | | Re: Named Beams (church and VW)
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| (...) I've seen a AD 1762, and a Anno 1762 brick. If you have a picture of a plain 1762 brick that you could share, I'd like to add it to my gallery (with picture credit as shown). (2 URLs) (...) I always thought this was intentional in order to use (...) (20 years ago, 11-Jul-04, to lugnet.general, FTX)
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