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Re: Fun OLD Bricks/History questions
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lugnet.general
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Mon, 20 Mar 2000 17:49:29 GMT
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Eric McCarthy wrote:
> Gary Istok wrote:
> > And the letters and numbers are from parts packs.
> > They are probably #234 (letters) and #237 (numbers),
> > which were produced from 1957-64. Or they could
> > be #487 (letters) and #488 (numbers) from circa 1965-67.
> > In circa 1968 they were switched to #987 (letters)
> > and #988 (numbers).
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> There are all blue numbers and letters printed on the
> side of white 1x1 bricks.
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> Do these set numbers correspond at all to the
> different styles of printing on the number and
> letter 1x1 bricks? The early '60s Samsonite letters
> I have are in higher relief - i.e. thicker printing, and
> are darker blue. The late '60s European letters I have
> are in lighter blue and a wider font, but flatter
> on the brick. It is not clear to me from the pictures
> at Pause, which parts pack set numbers contained letters with
> which kind of printing.
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> Also, has anyone made a list of which country variations
> there are in these letter brick parts packs? I know of
> different Scandinavian, German, and English letter brick packs,
> but I don't know if there were any other language-specific
> letter brick packs. Selçuk, was there a Turkish one?
>
> /Eric McC/
I don't have a lot of time today to go into a decent discussion, so I'll
do that later this week. But there are a large variety of these
available as well. One thing though, they were all black or blue
print. I've seen lower case letters from a Dutch set, lighter blue
colored larger print (like you described) from a German set, black
smaller letters from a Samsonite set, and most interesting of all were
the European language sets with special letters (German, Danish,
Swedish, French, etc). An example would be the German letter set that
had the addional letters ä, ü, ö (but upper case).
Stay tuned for more on this...
Gary Istok
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