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| | | I discovered in my LEGO collection a very strange plate: a plate withuot tubes!! I know the first LEGO plate was made in 1962 when the stud-and-tube system was already used, so the question is: why is this plate wihout tubes? view plate pics at: (...) (24 years ago, 28-May-00, to lugnet.general)
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| | | | | Re: an old strange plate 8x4 —Frank Buiting
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| | | | | "Domenico Franco" <acubens@tiscalinet.it> wrote in message news:Fv9wF0.I7A@lugnet.com... (...) It is a baseplate, I'm not sure but I think that a plate like this came with <set:318>. I don't know why they didn't put tubes in these small baseplates, (...) (24 years ago, 28-May-00, to lugnet.general)
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| | | | | Re: an old strange plate 8x4 —Marco Berti
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| | | | | (...) Hi Domenico It is a long time I am telling you to not throw away the box and the instruction of your sets! Now you do not remeber anymore where they come from! What a pity! :) Marco (24 years ago, 28-May-00, to lugnet.general)
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| | | | | Re: an old strange plate 8x4 —Anders Isaksson
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| | | | | Domenico Franco skrev i meddelandet ... (...) 1960(?), I can clearly see plates :-) (URL) don't know why the plates looks like this (square holes instead of tubs), but that's how the first(?) plates looked. My old plates look the same. 4x8, 6x8 and (...) (24 years ago, 28-May-00, to lugnet.general)
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| | | | | | | Re: an old strange plate 8x4 —Jonathan Reynolds
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| | | | | | (...) Taking a look in my Idea Book from (...) And from that same book, is this the first (and last?) example of LEGO targetting ADULTS? (URL) children in this picture, just Jorgen and his fashionable wife with their Lego dream house. Jon (24 years ago, 28-May-00, to lugnet.general)
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| | | | | | | | Re: an old strange plate 8x4 —Kerry Raymond
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| | | | | | | (...) their (...) And he's smoking a pipe! I can't imagine that in a current catalogue. (24 years ago, 30-May-00, to lugnet.general)
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| | | | | | | | Re: an old strange plate 8x4 —Andy McKenney
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| | | | | | (...) From Andy (24 years ago, 1-Jun-00, to lugnet.general)
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| | | | | Re: an old strange plate 8x4 —Mark Koesel
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| | | | | Domenico, The first plates were available long before 1962. Here is a catalog scan from Horst Lehner's site from 1957 that shows the plate that you have. (URL) Franco" <acubens@tiscalinet.it> wrote in message news:Fv9wF0.I7A@lugnet.com... (...) (24 years ago, 30-May-00, to lugnet.general)
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| | | | | | | Re: an old strange plate 8x4 —Domenico Franco
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| | | | | | (...) I based my consideration on "the ultimate LEGO book" - DK edition. There is a short LEGO piece history and on page 15 is clearly written :1962-first 1/3 element, evidently there is a mistake ;-) Thanks once again for having answered my (...) (24 years ago, 1-Jun-00, to lugnet.general)
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| | | | | Re: an old strange plate 8x4 —Gary Istok
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| | | | (...) Well I read everybody's reply to this thread over the past few days, but I had PC problems (Windows N/T install), and and couldn't send reply's for a few days. Here's the story: These plates have been around at least since 1956. I have a 1956 (...) (24 years ago, 1-Jun-00, to lugnet.general)
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| | | | | | Re: an old strange plate 8x4 —Clark Stephens
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| | | | (...) I have a grey waffle-bottomed plate (URL) know what year/set. It came in a big box of old stuff. It looks warped like CA. Couldn't find a mention of it in this thread. Thanks, Clark (24 years ago, 6-Sep-00, to lugnet.general)
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| | | | | | Re: an old strange plate 8x4 —Gary Istok
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| | | | | I vaguely remember Bill Katz (a LUGNET user who has not been around lately - due to a heavy workload) mentioning the existence of a gray plate with the waffle bottom. I think he said there was an airplane set that this came from (Samsonite only?), (...) (24 years ago, 7-Sep-00, to lugnet.general)
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| | | | | | | Re: an old strange plate 8x4 —Gary Istok
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| | | | | | I forgot to mention that the (1963-65) 8x11 gray Cellulose Acetate plate from the Architectural series parts pack had the tube bottom, and not the waffle bottom. - Gary Istok (...) (24 years ago, 7-Sep-00, to lugnet.general)
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| | | | | | Four colours of 4 x 8 CA plates —Clark Stephens
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| | | | Gary, Add two more colours to the CA plate inventory. That makes plates in white, light grey, black & red. The ones I have are all 4 x 8 with waffle bottoms, probably CA. (URL) black one didn't show its waffle very well. The two new colors came in a (...) (24 years ago, 1-Oct-00, to lugnet.general)
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