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Maneul, Please check the Architectural boxes again. You might have 4 varieties, but I could swear that there are only 3. I will
go home tonight and check again. After today I won't be able to post again here until Monday.
As for your parts pack box. It is the 1956 box (with the policeman and 3 children). The 1957 boxes are vertical and have 3
children (the boy is very tall compared to the other 2 children). The 1958 boxes are also vertical, and have 3 children (one boy)
also. They are building a hotel with 2 tall towers. The 1956-57 boxes will say "BAUSTEINE" or "MURSTEN" or whatever European
language that they originated from. In 1958 they all say "SYSTEM". On the reverse of the 1957 and 1958 boxes there is the little
LEGO Gnome with a 7-10 story LEGO building.
No there are no LEGO boxes shown on any website that I know about. I'll have to get some put onto brickshelf. I have about 18
different designs (in my collection) from 1956-64 that fall into the following types: 1956, 1957, 1958, 1959, 1960-62, 1963-64.
Gary Istok
Manuel Cueto wrote:
> In the boxes I have the box designs are 4. One for each box number.
>
> 518 an adult man building a building
> 519 a young adult male and female building
> 520 an interior house design, with two people in black cardboard
> 521 a gray roofed house on box cover (this is the rarest?)
>
> And all the back of the boxes are the suspended plates.
>
> Gary, the danish old boxes you have, come with pictures? Any scan in
> someplace?. (1227 and 1230 you said?).In the catalog that I have only show
> the 1230. The bricks are numbered like 700/28, 700/24, 700/20, 700/16, 700
> 1/1 (the 2x4 brick), 700 3/4, 700 1/2, 700 1/4. 1221 (1x1 brick).
>
> The older little box that I have, I thought is from 1957-58 and have the
> town plan horizontally witn a traffic police in it with
> some children and the other side is 3 playing children in the town plan.
> Text in german. Box number 210. The other little boxes I have show vertical
> pictures.
>
> Manuel
>
> In lugnet.build, Gary Istok writes:
> > Manuel is correct. It is the Architectural Series Parts pack box (#518, 519, 520, 521). Originally, these were made in
> > red/white/blue/black/gray/clear, but NOT yellow (that color was not a part of the Architectural sets). I have about 40 of
> > these boxes. There are only 3 different box designs; 1) an adult man building a building, 2) a young adult male and female
> > building, 3) a gray roofed house on box cover. On the reverse there are pictures of modern LEGO furniture (an interior house
> > design), and pictures of plates suspended midair.
> >
> > These Architectural parts packs were made from 1963-65. The survival rate of these plate boxes is quite high (I don't think
> > they were good sellers in the 60's, and they can be purchased reasonably for $8-$25 (the higher price is for the highly
> > desireable clear plates). These were only ever available in continental Europe.
> >
> > I have in my collection a rare example of these in Yellow (a #521 - 1x1 and 1x2 plates). Yes I know I just said that they
> > were not produced in yellow. Probably by 1965 TLC saw that the Architectural series was not a success, so they ended the
> > line, and must have had some left over empty plastic boxes. The yellow box I have was a clear brick box with the clear
> > bricks on the cardboard sleeve having a square of yellow ink (or paint?) "stamped" over the picture of the clear plates to
> > make them look yellow. It is hard to describe without a picture, but TLC differentiated clear and gray bricks on the box
> > covers by putting lines thru the clear bricks to show them as shiny.
> >
> > Interestingly enough, there are some pictures of one of these in EBAY right now.....
> >
> > http://cgi.ebay.com/aw-cgi/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=474199663
> >
> > Gary Istok
> >
> >
> > Manuel Cueto wrote:
> >
> > > Hi
> > >
> > > The plate is from Architectural Sets. I quote Gary Istok in an old post (I
> > > didn´t found the number).
> > >
> > > Gary Istoq wrote.....
> > >
> > > "Interestingly enough, the only other large CA gray plate that I am aware of
> > > was (continental Europe only) from those 1963-65 Architectural Sets parts packs
> > > (the hard plastic clear box version of plates packs 518, 519, 520, 521). These
> > > had an 8x11 (yes that is a strange size) gray plate as the bottom of the parts
> > > pack box (where an 8x11(x4) clear plastic box fit over the top of. These were
> > > the parts packs for the shortlived Architectural series (1963-65) of sets - 750,
> > > 751, 752."
> > >
> > > And my little contribution....
> > >
> > > It have a cardboard and the box slip inside. The boxes had 4 different
> > > pictures and a little panflet.. I´m OK?.....
> > >
> > > Manuel Cueto
> > >
> > > In lugnet.build, Selçuk Göre writes:
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > Duq wrote:
> > > > >
> > > > > Hi all,
> > > > >
> > > > > I put a picture of some old pieces on brickshelf
> > > > > (http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?i=18139).
> > > > > Can anyone tell me what sets this is from? Must be 50's or 60's, but I
> > > > > haven't seen any pictures of it anywhere. All the studs have the LEGO logo
> > > > > on them, so it definitely is the real thing...
> > > > >
> > > > > Duq
> > > >
> > > > Most probably a car showcase for the HO scale cars that Lego produced in 50's and 60's. Actually I could be wrong, since
> > > > the ones that I saw before were 4 studs wide. Tore Ericson and Gary Istok can give more insight I think.
> > > >
> > > > Selçuk
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