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Most of you know that Maersk is the Danish transportation company that
commissioned TLG to produce several truck and ship models since 1974.
The most famous Maersk LEGO models are the 2 Maersk LEGO ships. The first was
the extremely expensive 1974 released #1650 Maersk Line Container Ship that has
sold on EBAY recently for up to $2700 in MISB (YIKES!!)
The 2nd famous Maersk LEGO model was 10152 Maersk Sealand Container Ship of
2004-2006.
There was a much earlier 3rd Maersk ship that TLG made... the Regina Maersk.
Unfortunately there were 3 stikes against this model.... 1) it was only made for
LEGO retailers from 1959-61, 2) it was made of Cellulose Acetate, so surviving
models would have a lot of warped LEGO elements, and 3) there are no known
survivors of this LEGO model... in nearly 9 years of searching on EBAY (USA and
Europe), I have never seen this one come up for sale.
So I decided to research and build the 1959 Regina Maersk (LEGO model #0751).
The original real (non-LEGO) ship was built in the shipyards of Odense Denmark
in 1954, and launched in 1955. It was the first ever Maersk Line ship that had
a Maersk blue hull, a trademark of all Maersk ships today.
The 1959-61 LEGO Regina Maersk Ship #0751 was built with regular blue bricks,
and virtually no specialty LEGO elements (they didn’t exist in 1959).
So what I have done is study the 1959 LEGO retailer catalog model as well as
other images of it, and rebuilt this ship using Maersk blue LEGO elements(first
introduced in 1974), as well as a few sloped and inverse sloped bricks (not
available in 1959) and real LEGO Maersk stickers... and built my own MOC of the
very first LEGO Maersk Ship for sale... “The Regina Maersk”...
The ship is a full 2 ft. (60 cm) long (when assembled), and will come as loose
parts with building instructions. Also included will be 12 mint classic 1x1x1
white windows, which are used in the original model, as well as mint LEGO Maersk
stickers for completing the model.
I am hoping to build up to 10 of these models, and am taking pre-orders for an
after Christmas delivery. (Now you know what to do with your holiday gift money
;-D!)
The price is $99 (shipping extra), and that will include a complimentary copy of
my newest LEGO CD Version 2.1... (a $26.95 value) which has the images of the
entire old 1959 retailer catalog that the Regina Maersk retailer model ship came
in.
Also, anyone who wants this ship and complimentary LEGO CD, and wants to prepay
now... the first few pre-payed orders will also get either a #455 LEAR JET
(original mint parts and sticker sheet only), or a #1119 STEAM PISTON PACK (for
building a Thatcher Perkins Locomotive or a #725/#726 12V Train).
Ironically the #455 Lear Jet was ONLY sold in USA/Canada in the mid 1970’s, and
the #1119 Steam Piston pack was ONLY sold in Europe and Australia in the late
70’s and early 80’s).
If you want to order this quickly and get the freebie #455 or #1119 (a $20 plus
value), you can Paypal me at: istokg@earthlink.net. (Don’t worry, I won’t skip
town! :-D)
Since that’s my EMAIL address also, send any inquiries to that EMAIL address.
Don’t worry about Spamblocker.
Also,
Here’s a pic of the original 1959 LEGO retailer catalog image of the model (I
use the positioning of the smoke stacks differently, but that can be changed):
This model is MUCH NICER in Maersk blue than regular blue!!
Happy Holidays!!
Gary Istok
P.S. I likely couldn’t have these done before Christmas, since I’m still
upgrading the 1500 page Unofficial LEGO Sets/Parts Collectors Guide
(1949-1980’s).
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| Last year I offered this Maersk Ship, and sold 10 of them. This year I am repeating the offer, since I had leftover Maersk blue parts (unfortunately I bought so many Maersk parts on BrickLink that the price of many of the 71 Maersk parts in the ship (...) (14 years ago, 20-May-10, to lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade, FTX)
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