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Re: 2 Types of Brown?!?
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Sun, 7 Sep 2003 02:21:59 GMT
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In lugnet.castle, Johannes Koehler wrote:
> Hello!
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> <http://www.brickshelf.com/gallery/Jojo/sonstiges/3bows.jpg
> <http://www.brickshelf.com/gallery/Jojo/sonstiges/thumb/3bows.jpg_thumb.jpg
> Click me for bigger size (Size matters!)>>
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> I also have one bow that's in a darker brown. It's not just a darker shade of
> the same brown but a completely different colour. (Lighting conditions in my
> home aren't too good to show that properly.)
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> > Shifty Bricks have copied the quiver and its one of the harder pieces to
> > spot the difference with mold wise.
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> Also the dark brown bow says LEGO.
> I have this piece since my childhood. But I don't think it's the normal early
> version though, for I got my first sets with bows and quivers in 1984, and
> that's the earliest year for these parts. I should have at least one dark
> brown quiver matching the dark brown bow if the dark brown colour had been
> volitional. I think they once mixed (most likely accidentally) some black
> grains of raw-ABS (or PP) with brown when they made the pieces so that the
> outcome was dark brown.
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> > I don't think
> > there is a Lego brown darker than the usual,
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> Old trees from the 70ies have a different brown trunk, it's almost grey. But
> even that is not the same colour as the dark brown bow.
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> Bye¬
> Jojo¬
> ¬
> <<http://www.chutspe.de/adler.gif>>
I have a few of these darker bows and quivers as well. I have never purchased a
clone brand so I am 99.9% sure that these are genuine Lego parts. I will try to
take a pic on my day off.
Will
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| cool. Always glad to be proved wrong :) I'll have to check through my quiver collection now. Its a piece which I always seem to have more than enough of I didn't have any blackfalcons with the head facing the other way, so I'll probably have no luck (...) (21 years ago, 7-Sep-03, to lugnet.castle)
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| Hello! (URL) me for bigger size (Size matters!)>> I also have one bow that's in a darker brown. It's not just a darker shade of the same brown but a completely different colour. (Lighting conditions in my home aren't too good to show that properly.) (...) (21 years ago, 6-Sep-03, to lugnet.castle, FTX)
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