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Re: Interesting Lego bricks, and a question to the historians
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Wed, 17 May 2000 20:01:58 GMT
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11 of these old bricks are just going "sold" on ebay.de. I would post a link
to the auction with picture, but it will disappear soon (I could pull the
picture URL out of the page source, but I'm guessing this isn't kosher?)
Anyways, the lot consists of mostly bricks in sizes available now, the only
exception being a 4x4 white L-shaped corner brick; all have slots in them. The
seller said he looked through German fleemarkets for such bricks for years but
never found any. He finally took a trip to Denmark and found some there. The
slots were for the doors and windows available at the time, apparently.
Regards,
Alan
In lugnet.general, Anders Isaksson writes:
> Hello all!
>
> Today I received a very nice gift (as 'payment' for my BlockCAD program) -
> three _very_ old Lego bricks. They came in a letter from Denmark, and the
> sender writes (Translated by me from Danish)
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> "The bricks are about 50 years old, some of the very first Lego Billund made.
> We got them in 1949(?) for our oldest daughter, who is 54 now. I had to write
> to the factory for them, as there wasn't any store carrying Lego in the
> neighborhood!"
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> I got three bricks, 2x4, white, yellow and red, and there are some intriguing
> differences between them:
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> None of them has any text on the studs,
> the red one has a slit (the wall is completely cut through) in both short
> ends, no text anywhere
> the yellow has a slit in one end, and no text
> the white has a slit in one end, and the word LEGO on the inside
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> Is it possible to date these pieces by the differences, or is this just a
> difference in concurrent molds?
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> Any historian out there with some facts/speculations?
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> As a side note, I now know for a fact that BlockCAD is used by people of the
> ages 4-80 :-)
>
> --
> Anders Isaksson, Sweden
> BlockCAD: http://user.tninet.se/~hbh828t/proglego.htm
> Gallery: http://user.tninet.se/~hbh828t/gallery.htm
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