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Re: Appreciating what TLG and Lego Direct have done for AFOL's
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lugnet.color
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Wed, 24 Nov 2004 16:51:08 GMT
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In lugnet.color, Gerhard R. Istok wrote:
> Gray actually goes back to the 1950's. I have a 10x20 thick baseplate in gray
> without "Lego" on the studs (pre 1957). The 10x20 baseplates first came out in
> 1953, but I cannot confirm that they started in gray that year. The next
> appearance of gray came with the advent of the Architectural Sets (1963-65),
> when gray plates came out in 1x1, 1x2, 2x2, 2x3, 2x4 and the strange 8x11 plate
> that was the top (actually bottom) of the plastic boxes that held these pieces.
> The earliest of these were CA, then switched to ABS. Then in 1966 the #325
> Shell Station came out with more different size of large plates. But regular
> bricks didn't come out until after 1978. One of the first was the 1x1 round
> bricks, found in the USS Constellation of 1978.
Gary, perhaps you could identify something for me? I have a number of gray
10x10 thick baseplates that appear to be the tops of boxes. I rescued them from
a friend who was disposing of his Lego collection (!), but the boxes were
already lost..
> Black first showed up in late 1961/early 1962
I was under the impression that black dated to 1957, e.g.
http://guide.lugnet.com/set/218_4
--Muze
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