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Re: Cowboy hat - not a Town Jr. thing!
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lugnet.general, lugnet.town
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Wed, 19 Jan 2000 15:14:03 GMT
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That would probably be set #365, the Grand Daddy of the early large western sets:
http://www.lugnet.com/pause/search/?query=365-1
I have this set, I love it for the parts.... lots of classic windows and doors.
Gary Istok
Chris Ernest Hall wrote:
> In lugnet.general, Paul Davidson writes:
> > Oh no, cowboy hats are an ooooold and recently resurrected piece. I
> > remember back from the eighties (around '86 probably) when I was kid, I had
> > an ideabook in which some of the minifigs wore cowboy hats, and the sets
> > they came with were so old that I hadn't seen any even back then.
>
> Very old. They were used in a western set back in the mid-70s, with the
> original armless, faceless minifigs. Indeed, they are some of the oldest known
> minifig headpieces that I know of - as old as caps and black pony-tail hair.
>
> - chris
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> > Paul Davidson
> >
> > Tobias Möller <tobias.moller@telia.com> wrote in message
> > news:FoE7ot.1os@lugnet.com...
> > > If you think that the cowboy hats are ugly and that it was better before
> > > without them, well then look here!
> > >
> > > http://www.brickshelf.com/scans/catalogs/1985/c85eu/c85eu-29.html
> > >
> > > It´s a scan from the 1985 catalog, and what is one of the minifigs • wearing?
> > > If you can´t find him, he´s just about to enter the train door.
> > >
> > > BTW, it´s a german train! Cool!
> > >
> > > --Tobias
> > >
> > >
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| (...) Very old. They were used in a western set back in the mid-70s, with the original armless, faceless minifigs. Indeed, they are some of the oldest known minifig headpieces that I know of - as old as caps and black pony-tail hair. - chris (...) (25 years ago, 17-Jan-00, to lugnet.general, lugnet.town)
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