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Re: Help with part inventory for Lego Samsonite #021
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Fri, 26 May 2000 03:53:59 GMT
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> > It is incomplete (is without cars, except a bug VW black, but I think this • not
> > belongs here, maybe a tree, a light). I built all the houses, I have a • little
> > difficult to built the esso service, because I have a lot of extra pieces. I
> > found the last week a scan instructions in the web for the service. That can
> > help me in the future to make this more acurrate (All the esso service
> > buildings are the same? I know the red border, but I means in construction).
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> There should be 2 VW cars and 3 trucks with this set (one Fire Truck, one Tow
> Truck, one Esso Tank Truck). There should also be 1 Esso sign, 1 set of Esso
> pumps, 1 street light, and 4 or 5 old roadsigns. Also there should be a few • old
> style trees and bushes.
I wonder if the black VW could belongs to this set. I saw in the pictures (In
Samsonite 725 set) always light color VW. Light green, or beige etc..
And what are "old" road signs?.
I have two kind of street light, one with LEGO legend in the base and one
whitout it. The set came without the light.
Basically all Esso buildings should be the same, but it is
> possible that the back of the USA version used clear bricks instead of 1x4x2 • white
> windows. Also that red border along the top edge of the roof plates is made • from a
> red marker pen. This was applied by hand by the LEGO employees, and not part • of
> the brick molding process. You could do that yourself with a red marker
pen.
I have a base for the garage with the legend LEGO (with the line and dots,
open O) and down the legend ENERET. What could this means?
The little houses right and left with the round plate, what have in the back?
Ahhh and the HOTEL. THis was a big mistery for me when I built it. I put big
windows (2) (6 stud lenght, one glass)
The
> garage door also had a variation. White garage doors were used in earlier • LEGO
> Esso sets (#310 Esso Set was never sold in USA/Canada) and Town Plans, red • garage
> doors came later.
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> > I receive with the town plan a lot of slope blue bricks (8 2x2 and four • corner
> > slope). If I remember well in the 810 inventory said that have the same • (blue
> > bricks). But the question remains here (Belongs or not?)
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> I don't think those blue sloped bricks were originally part of your set.
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> > I am a little confused with the Fonts on the bricks. The 725 have straight
> > letters, and I have later sets with the open O (1969). (I also have bricks • 1x6
> > with mixed fonts, straight and open O, this is in other set). The garage • have
> > three differnt fonts (including the old open O with the doted line in the
> > gate) I read in an old message that the fonts don´t match with any year, • but I
> > expect some kind of correspondence.
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> Your 725 pieces should be all Cellulose Acetate. If you have any ABS • plastic, they
> were not original to this set. I have an old parts pack of Cellulose Acetate • 1x6
> and 1x8 yellow beams. The 1x6 beams had one font, the 1x8 had a different • one.
> There can be a mixture of different fonts. But if you have more than 2 • different
> fonts, I would think that some of these did not originally come in this set.
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> >
> > I also saw that the 725 have like 700-800 pieces. (Some guy said that have
> > 1500, but this don´t match). I have to count again it.
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> The 700-800 piece count sounds right. 1500 piece count is not correct.
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> >
> > My 725 set arrive with two boxes. The print one and this inside a transport
> > one, that fits like a glove. This said Lego By Samsonite in BIG BIG letters.
> > (I love the outer box).
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> Wow, looks like you got an example of the packing box that originally came • with the
> set. I have never seen this one, but I do have a packing box to an old #712 • wooden
> box set from Germany (from 1962). These packing boxes make the set more
> collectible/valuable. Does your set come with the original white cardboard
> dividers that separates the box into 8 compartments? And is there a black
> cardboard "floor" to each compartment? If so, you have the original inside
> packaging.
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> Gary Istok
Yes it have that packing. Is sad but the small pieces are atach with glue, so
the black cardboard have a little broke.
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| Geeeeeeee, I love questions about sets 725 an 717......... :-) So my reply is mixed in below..... (...) That is nothing to be sad about. If you had the earlier version, you would have the same version as was found throughout Europe in their 810 Town (...) (24 years ago, 25-May-00, to lugnet.general)
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