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Rarest 60's Lego Item?? was Re: Frank's first LEGO train set has been a 111
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Wed, 2 Mar 2005 06:34:18 GMT
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In lugnet.trains, Reinhard "Ben" Beneke wrote:
> In lugnet.trains, Gerhard R. Istok wrote:
> > In lugnet.trains, Clark Stephens wrote:
> > > In lugnet.trains, Gerhard R. Istok wrote:
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> > > I'd also recommend reading Ben's excellent train site for more information on
> > > variances (like motors, colors, and electronics):
> > > http://www.fgltc.org/bwoabs/trains/trains.phtml
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> > > HTH,
> > > Clark
> >
> > Thanks Clark,
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> > Maybe Ben would be a good person to proofread the train sections in the CD when
> > I'm done.
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> Thanks Clark,
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> for mentioning the link! And yes, Gary - even if we disagree an some aspects of
> modern LEGO which is forbidden to mention in this newsgroup without getting into
> danger of beeing outtimed - I would really like to proofread your train section.
> Allthough I always wonder again and again about unique things like a (mabe even
> faked?) 118 US train set (similar to European 119).
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> I love these discussions as lately about the 7750-prototype wheels or the
> riffled 12-spoke wheels from the 239/242 idea books etc....
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> Kind regards,
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> Ben
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> P.s.: ever seen this?
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> http://festum.de/1000steine/myimages/album07/aaf
> (from a 722 variation)
> or this:
> http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?i=1010815
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> And there are still marvellous things like a motor set 100 which contained a
> battery box with white(!!) bottom (as often shown in prototype pictures -
> obviously the got into regular sale as well). That appeared last summmer on
> 1000steine as a misb-set.
> Or the sliding doors in defering width a few weeks ago....
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> > TLG made so many variations in sets back then, it gives me a headache on
> > occasion! :-)
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> > Gary Istok
Ben,
Have you (or any 1000steine folks) ever seen one of these?
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=5956492138
All 1962-65 European catalogs show the 1:87 cars with a red garage and a white
base (the base is incorrectly shown as gray in most catalogs, except for the
British ones, which correctly show white). Here's a 1963 German catalog:
http://horst-lehner.mausnet.de/lego/katalog/gk63/GK63-2.JPG
The red door/white base garages are unknown to all my German and Danish
collector friends, even though all catalogs show them as red. I know of only
one other collector (from Yorkshire England) that has one of these. It appears
that 99.99% of all of these ever produced were with a gray door and a gray base.
This is probably one of the biggest (of many) Lego catalog errors from the
1960's.
Gary Istok
P.S. I' sending this to lugnet.general
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