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Re: WOOD LEGO
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lugnet.general
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Thu, 31 Aug 2000 15:42:12 GMT
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Manuel Cueto wrote:
> I am just wondering how many of you have old lego in wood or maybe plastic
> toys like the ones we can see in "50 years of play" or "The ultimate lego book"
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> I have a photocopy with more than 100 old toys like cars, dolls, furniture,
> table games, animals etc.. from 40´s and 50´s. All from LEGO.
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> Manuel
There are a lot of wooden toys made by TLC. They were produced until Feb. 4, 1960,
when there was a fire that destroyed the wooden toy warehouse in Billund. After
that date, TLC got out of the wooden toy business to concentrate on the plastic
bricks. The only wooden products made after 1960 (AFAIK) were the wooden LEGO
boxes - such as #710, #711, #712, #713, #820, #821 and #700. The interesting thing
about these wooden LEGO boxes is that all the different varieties were sold with or
without LEGO contents. 710, 712, 820 and "700 with contents" were sold as full
sets. 711, 713, 821 and "700 without contents" were sold as empty wooden boxes for
people to put their own LEGO into. These wooden boxes were sold from 1957-68.
They were NEVER sold in North America (although I know the existence of a Samsonite
wooden dealer box). I have 7 of these boxes in my collection, and they are a
fascinating addition to LEGO collecting. Note: some of the wooden box set numbers
I have listed have been reused again. Some of these (the wooden box ones) are not
in the LUGNET database. One interesting observation was that LEGO Europe was using
the 711 number for a wooden box set in the early 1960's at the same time that LEGO
Samsonite was using this number for a basic set in USA/Canada.
Gary Istok
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