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When did the "fingernail groove" appear?
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lugnet.general
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Fri, 27 May 2005 00:45:11 GMT
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Hey all,
After another major re-sort of my collection, I decided to separate all the
1x2 grille tiles without the fingernail groove out of my big bag of the
grooved kind since it's kinda hard to tell 'em apart while digging. I was
surprised to find that I had quite a few of the non-fingernail groove type
in colors that I would not have expected (most especially green). Green was
a pretty scarce color outside of baseplates and trees for quite awhile so I
got to thinkin' that some of these pieces must be pretty old. But just how
old are they?
For the record, I have the following colors in non-fingernail groove grille
tiles (in order of quantity):
Black
Gray
White
Blue
Red
Yellow
Green
Paging Mr. Istok! :-D
Dave S.
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Message has 3 Replies:
 | | Re: When did the "fingernail groove" appear?
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| (...) According to peeron (not definitive, but certainly a good indicator) there's a fairly neat split around the end of 1994 - (URL) those without grooves> do not appear in any sets after 94, and (URL) those with grooves> don't appear in any sets (...) (19 years ago, 27-May-05, to lugnet.general, FTX)
| | | Re: When did the "fingernail groove" appear?
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| (...) When I came across some sets that had never been "cross-contaminated" by other sets I went ahead and took some notes. You can add them to the rest of the observations you get: (URL) it seemed that in 1991 they had introduced the grooved tiles (...) (19 years ago, 27-May-05, to lugnet.general)
| | | Re: When did the "fingernail groove" appear?
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| (...) Hi Dave, looks like others beat me to the punch.... But speaking of grooves, Lego tiles, which first came into production in late 1965, came without grooves in the tile parts packs #510 (1965), and #471 (1966-68). Trying to date a specific (...) (19 years ago, 27-May-05, to lugnet.general)
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