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Subject:	Re: an old strange plate 8x4
Newsgroups:	lugnet.general
Date:	Sun, 28 May 2000 16:46:44 GMT
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"Domenico Franco" <acubens@tiscalinet.it> wrote in message news:Fv9wF0.I7A@lugnet.com... > 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: > http://www.geocities.com/domenico_f/lego/plateup.jpg > http://www.geocities.com/domenico_f/lego/platedown.jpg > http://www.geocities.com/domenico_f/lego/logo.jpg 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, I have some of the grey baseplates that are one brick high and those also don't have tubes but do have an embrossed sixties-LEGO logo on the bottom. -- Frank Buiting Visit the LEGO Lexicon: http://members.chello.nl/~f.buiting/lego/

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		an old strange plate 8x4
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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