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| OK, I was at a Barnes & Noble Bookstore in downtown Detroit yesterday and I was looking at a book on antique toys (I do this often trying in vain to find something on Lego). And these thick books talk about everything from Lincoln Logs to Erector (...) (19 years ago, 24-Jun-05, to lugnet.general)
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gerhard, istok
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| | Re: Is Lego the most complex collectible toy of all time?
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| (...) Thanks Anders, Whenever I look at the old Antique Toy Books with their 900 pages or so, I keep thinking that with Lego included the books would be about 1/3 larger. Anders and I share one thing in common on LUGNET. In a way we are both "Lego (...) (19 years ago, 24-Jun-05, to lugnet.general)
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gerhard, istok
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| | Re: tobacconist's parts
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| (...) I almost forgot, there was one set that did have Tobacconist in it. That was the #210/#1210 Small Shop sets of 1955-65. These were available with multiple names on the named beams. The example in the Lugnet database is a German one, which was (...) (19 years ago, 28-Jun-05, to lugnet.parts, lugnet.general)
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gerhard, istok
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| | Re: tobacconist's parts
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| (...) Tim, These tobacco signs were produced from 1955-65. But only in continental Europe. First of all the negative connotation to smoking did not exist in the 1950's and 1960's. And in continental Europe there were a lot of small mom and pop (...) (19 years ago, 28-Jun-05, to lugnet.parts, lugnet.general)
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| (...) Thanks Oyvind (cannot find that "O" in my ASCII letters), I purchased a set of 7 printed bricks from a Norse seller. I knew something was not right, because one brick was a "Slagter" (Danish) brick, not "Slakter". So I did not know if these (...) (19 years ago, 28-Jun-05, to lugnet.parts, lugnet.general)
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gerhard, istok
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gerhard, istok
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| A while ago I came across an unusual item on Eric Strand's awesome Brickshelf gallery. He has an excellent collection of old department store gift catalogs with Lego. In a 1967 Eaton's catalog (Eaton's is a large Canadian department store) there was (...) (19 years ago, 30-Jun-05, to lugnet.general, lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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gerhard, istok
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gerhard, istok
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| | Re: tobacconist's parts
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| (...) Thanks for the info on the TAXA/TAXI Anders. KIOSK and CAFE are also found in some Swedish parts packs. The Shell sign is from one of the Shell sets (#325, #648, etc). The VW Service is from the #306/#1306 VW Garage set, but may also have been (...) (19 years ago, 6-Jul-05, to lugnet.parts, lugnet.general)
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| | Re: Excessive exchange rate between US and Canada
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| (...) Hey Andre, You folks over in Canada (I live only 5 miles from the USA/Canada border, so I don't say "up in Canada") never seem to get a break! Even in the very first USA and Canada Samsonite Lego catalogs of 1961-62 there is a price (...) (19 years ago, 8-Jul-05, to lugnet.general)
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| (...) Hey David, living in an eastern suburb of Detroit, I feel your pain! With 10 million in the state of Michigan plus another 10 million in each Ohio and Ontario, and no Lego store, we all feel your pain! But I think the clustering of stores has (...) (19 years ago, 9-Jul-05, to lugnet.lego, FTX)
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| I am still working on mapping out the many variations of old Lego set and idea book numbers (for the Lego CD) from the 1950's and 1960's, and there are 3 Lego item numbers that stand out as having ENORMOUS quantities of variations. They are: 1) (...) (19 years ago, 8-Jul-05, to lugnet.general)
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gerhard, istok
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| I was wondering about what was actually the first ever occurrance of Lego "Juniorization"? That is not an easy question to answer, since it is partly a matter of interpretation, but this part from 1966 gets my vote... (URL) is the "4x8 Train Base (...) (19 years ago, 9-Jul-05, to lugnet.general)
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| | Question About USS Constellation #398 & Hobby Sets
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| OK, I know that the legendary "Hobby Sets" of the mid-to-late 1970's are the #390 (1913 Cadillac), #391 (1926 Renault), #392 (Formula 1 Racer), #393 (Norton Motorcycle), #394 (Harley-Davidson Motorcycle), #395 (1909 Rolls-Royce), and #396 (Thatcher (...) (19 years ago, 9-Jul-05, to lugnet.general)
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gerhard, istok
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| | Re: First Ever Juniorized Lego Part?
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| (...) I don't have that part, and I just looked at it in Peeron. I didn't see the hole in the middle the first time. My bad. (...) I just found out from Phil Traviss that in Britain they made a few of these 4x8 curved plates with the missing notch (...) (19 years ago, 12-Jul-05, to lugnet.general)
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gerhard, istok
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| | Re: Lego and other brand trademarks
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| (...) Hey Dave.... I'm surprised you didn't think of them..... Esso, Shell, Exxon, VW (named beams), and then there are all the 1:87 cars/trucks. Is Octan a real service station? I have never seen one here or in Europe (Germany, Austria, Britain, (...) (19 years ago, 12-Jul-05, to lugnet.general)
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gerhard, istok
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