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Subject:	Re: Interesting Lego bricks, and a question to the historians
Newsgroups:	lugnet.general
Date:	Wed, 17 May 2000 22:06:43 GMT
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"Anders Isaksson" <isaksson.etuna@REMOVEebox.tninet.se> wrote in message news:Fuq18p.6CD@lugnet.com... > Alan Demlow skrev i meddelandet ... > > The slots were for the doors and windows available at the time, • apparently. > > Yes, my wife just told me :-) "Why didn't you ask ME first" she says, and • goes > and fetches a plastic bag with about 50 of these old bricks!!! She belives > they are from the beginning of 1950, as that matches the age of her • cousin, > who gave them to her when she was little. The bricks are Automatic Binding Bricks, see: http://members.brabant.chello.nl/~f.buiting/lego/a.html AFAIK: The period of production is 1949 to 1957 (in 1958 the current version of the bricks were patented). -- Frank Buiting Visit the LEGO Lexicon: http://members.chello.nl/~f.buiting/lego/

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		Re: Interesting Lego bricks, and a question to the historians
(...) 1949, but I am not exactly sure when the "slotted" bricks ended production. I have a 1957 set #700 (wooden box with contents), and all of the bricks are without the tubes on the bottom, but they also are without the slots on the sides. The (...) (25 years ago, 18-May-00, to lugnet.general)

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		Re: Interesting Lego bricks, and a question to the historians
Alan Demlow skrev i meddelandet ... (...) Yes, my wife just told me :-) "Why didn't you ask ME first" she says, and goes and fetches a plastic bag with about 50 of these old bricks!!! She belives they are from the beginning of 1950, as that matches (...) (25 years ago, 17-May-00, to lugnet.general)

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