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| (...) Very nice Bruce! Here in Detroit I've been watching the funeral services on local TV all day. She lived most of the last 50 years in Detroit with her late husband Raymond. She was an inspiration to all of us. Ironically THE BUS is also here in (...) (19 years ago, 3-Nov-05, to lugnet.build.vignette, FTX)
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| | Re: Question for Gary Istok
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| (...) Thanks Clark! Russell, those bricks were sold in USA Samsonite sets from 1964-72. Here is a cut/paste from my upcoming Lego Set/Part History CD (the chapter on Duplo/Pre-School). This table lists all the sets that were produced with Jumbo (...) (19 years ago, 17-Nov-05, to lugnet.general)
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| | Re: A Lego History Project
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| (...) Hey Jim, Thanks for the Lego family history. It is very interesting to note that the first Lego outside of Denmark, was sold in Norway in 1953. No we know why! Good Researching!! Gary Istok (19 years ago, 7-Nov-05, to lugnet.general, FTX)
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gerhard, istok
(score: 1.981)
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| | Re: Question for Gary Istok
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| (...) OK, to add to the confusion is the fact that NO catalogs show the #501, #502 or #503 sets. Jan K.'s Billund Vault pictures (which I hadn't seen) sorta takes some of that mystery away. Duplo sales started in 1969 in Europe. These sets would (...) (19 years ago, 20-Nov-05, to lugnet.general)
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gerhard, istok
(score: 1.981)
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| | Re: Advice needed on antique LEGO bricks
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| (...) Hi Aaron, I have a few questions for you.... First off, I assume that you're from the USA. And when you say "pre-tube", you mean no tubes on the bottom of the bricks, correct? The only place that the tubeless bricks were sold was Denmark, (...) (19 years ago, 10-Nov-05, to lugnet.general)
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gerhard, istok
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| | Re: The history of LEGO in Norway
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| (...) Thanks Jim! Yes Norway was the first country (besides Denmark) that sold Lego. As has already been mentioned the first Lego sales to Norway were sets that were produced IN Norway. This production probably continued on into the late 1950's. By (...) (19 years ago, 23-Nov-05, to lugnet.general)
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gerhard, istok
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| | Re: WANTED! ESSO drum brick 1x1 round 1:87
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| (...) Besides what Eric already explained, the classic Lego scale (Lego 1x2x3 classic door is 3 bricks tall) is 1:87. That scale was phased out between 1973-80, when first the 1x3x4 door came out (produced 1973-80). The minifig scale 1x4x5 door came (...) (19 years ago, 18-Dec-05, to lugnet.general)
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(score: 1.969)
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| | Rarest Lego Windows/Doors (from Sweden)
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| Eric Strand brought this to my attention.... I have never seen these before in yellow... From 1953-56 TLG made the first old style windows/doors that matched the classic era windows/doors of 1956-87, but they were without studs on top. These were (...) (19 years ago, 21-Dec-05, to lugnet.general, lugnet.announce)
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gerhard, istok
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| | Dreaming of a 1960's German/American Lego Christmas......
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| Happy Holidays to all! Here's my pic (shown it before, but what the heck, it's the Holidays!) of what a circa 1962-63 Lego Christmas would be like if AFOL's existed back then..... :-) I call it a "German-American Christmas", since it shows a mixture (...) (19 years ago, 23-Dec-05, to lugnet.general)
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gerhard, istok
(score: 1.968)
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| | Whatever Happened to Karl-Heinz Vogt??
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| German Lego collector Karl-Heinz Vogt is one of the best collectors of old Lego. I've tried emailing him in the past, but no response. Now his website: (URL) offline. Has anyone heard from him lately? Gary Istok (19 years ago, 30-Dec-05, to lugnet.general)
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gerhard, istok
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| | Unknown Minitalia Lego Element?
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| Thanks to the great websites of Italian's Luca Giannitti and Gianluca Morelli (and others), I have been studying the early 1970's Minitalia Lego sets unique to Italy. I am finishing up the Lego CD chapter on Minitalia. In doing so, I uncovered a (...) (19 years ago, 2-Jan-06, to lugnet.general)
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gerhard, istok
(score: 1.965)
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| | Re: mosaic/ snot alphabet
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| (...) Ondrew, It's not what you asked for, but it's what I use for small lettering..... the real thing (found in Bricklink as individual letters). On Clark Stephen's excellent website: (URL) 1x1 letter and number bricks were produced from 1958 to (...) (19 years ago, 3-Jan-06, to lugnet.build.mosaic)
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| | Re: Allan Bedford "Unofficial LEGO builder's guide"
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| Great, Just great.. First Gerhard R Istok's CD, and now this.... I'm going to be a broke broke man in the near future :) Looks fantastic , If the rest of the book is as good as the micro chapter, I can see this being popular. I real like how clearly (...) (19 years ago, 26-Aug-05, to lugnet.books, FTX)
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| | Re: Interesting old packaging variants
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| (...) The #120 set was produced from 1966-72 in USA (and 1966-73 in Canada). You have encountered 2 of the box variations. There are more than just 2 however. Sets from 1949-73 have many many packing variations and box style changes. Basic set (...) (19 years ago, 2-Mar-06, to lugnet.general, FTX)
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| | Re: Elemental Challenge
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| (...) The green small Cellulose Acetate plates came in the #518, #519, #520 and #521 USA/Canada Samsonite Lego sets from 1963-66. Here they are pictured (at the bottom): (URL) they are not shown, it is possible that these same plate parts packs were (...) (19 years ago, 5-Mar-06, to lugnet.general)
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gerhard, istok
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| | Re: Shop At Home feedback requested.
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| Well I know I'm late on my input, but I was having the same LUGNET posting problem that the Italian AFOLs were having. Couldn't post for a while, but now I can again..... (...) First of all, I do like Town System buildings suitable for Train System (...) (19 years ago, 6-Mar-06, to lugnet.lego.direct, FTX)
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gerhard, istok
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| | Re: State Courthouse, Columbus OH
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| (...) Very nice Paul!!! It's nice to see I'm not the only one who builds in the classic Lego scale (doors=3 bricks tall, windows=2 or 3 bricks tall). Now what you need to do is to build Columbus's Leveque-Lincoln Tower, a 1926 55 story Art Deco (...) (19 years ago, 8-Mar-06, to lugnet.town, FTX)
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(score: 1.946)
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