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Re: 2 Types of Brown?!?
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lugnet.castle
Date: 
Sun, 7 Sep 2003 02:21:59 GMT
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In lugnet.castle, Johannes Koehler wrote:
> Hello!
> 
> 
> <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!)>>
> 
> 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.)
> 
> 
> > Shifty Bricks have copied the quiver and its one of the harder pieces to
> > spot the difference with mold wise.
> 
> 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.
> 
> 
> 
> > I don't think
> > there is a Lego brown darker than the usual,
> 
> 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.
> 
> 
> 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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  Re: 2 Types of Brown?!?
 
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 (...) (23 years ago, 7-Sep-03, to lugnet.castle)

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  Re: 2 Types of Brown?!?
 
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.) (...) (23 years ago, 6-Sep-03, to lugnet.castle, FTX)

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