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In lugnet.color, Gerhard R. Istok wrote:
> >
> > Yeah, grey *brick* was really uncommon until around 1984 >>
> > DaveE
> Peeron is wrong on some of the 60's dates for grey. In 1963 (Christmas 1962 to
> be accurate) grey plates in 1x1, 1x2, 2x2, 2x3, 2x4 and strange as it may seem
> 8x11 came into production. These early ones were Cellulose Acetate. They came
> out in Architectural sets #750, #751 and #752, as well as spare parts packs
> #518, #519, #520 and #521. These plates (except the 8x11) were continuously
> produced in spare parts packs until 1972.
>
> The 10x20 (thick) base plate was produced in grey since 1955, and was the main
> and most popular color (out of 6 colors) for base plates throughout the 1960's.
> The 50x50 thin base plate came out in 1965 (Christmas 1964) and has been very
> popular ever since (although it was shrunken down to 48x48 many years ago).
>
> And a comment on another post, black bricks, which came out in 1962 (again,
> Christmas 1961), were produced all at once in all brick sizes (except the 2x8,
> 2x10 bricks) and a year later in all small plate sizes. Black bricks were
> available in all these sizes in spare parts packs, but ironically were found in
> very few sets until Lego trains came into production.
>
> Gary Istok
Normal grey bricks like 2x2, 2x3, and 2x4 were available in abundance in 1960/61
in expansion sets like 218, 219 and 220. Also, as far as I know, grey plates
were used in 1957 in set 323, Train.
Arne, Copenhagen
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| (...) Hello Arne, I have to politely disagree with you. If what I am thinking is correct, you are seeing what appears to be grey parts in the #218 (2x4 bricks), #219 (2x3 bricks), #220 (2x2 bricks), #221 (1x2 bricks), #222 (1x1 bricks) #223 (1x1 (...) (20 years ago, 4-Dec-04, to lugnet.color, lugnet.lego, lugnet.general)
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