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Re: When did the "fingernail groove" appear?
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lugnet.general
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Fri, 27 May 2005 19:06:55 GMT
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In lugnet.general, Maggie Cambron wrote:
> In lugnet.general, David Simmons wrote:
> > 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?
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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:
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> http://news.lugnet.com/inv/?n=143
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> IIRC it seemed that in 1991 they had introduced the grooved tiles but in some
> cases were still using their stock of non-grooved ones. Which might place the
> change sometime around then.
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> Maggie C.
"Cross Contamination" continued as late as 1997. I have some copies of 5561 Big
Foot 4x4 that had non-grooved grilles as well as at least one Divers set, which
I think is the Diving Expedition Explorer. I vaguely remember seeing it in
another one, though; perhaps Shark Cage Cove.
Jeff
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