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    Aging pieces with printing and logos —Joakim Olsson
   I'm amazed that my old shell, taxi, police, lego, legoland and the 1*4 headlight picese look really good after 25 years... Hey, even the 2*4 yellow spirit of st loiuse piece looks good considering it's only a sticker. My old space pieces with logos (...) (24 years ago, 7-Oct-00, to lugnet.general)
   
        Re: Aging pieces with printing and logos —Frank Filz
   (...) Obviously the bricks with "engraved" lettering have a better chance of lasting a long time since the "engraving" protects the paint. On the other hand, I think these bricks are just painted with normal paint. The newer way that TLC does (...) (24 years ago, 7-Oct-00, to lugnet.general)
   
        Re: Aging pieces with printing and logos —Joakim Olsson
    Frank Filz wrote in message ... (...) suspect (...) Maybe the newer pieces got more "rough handling" after my younger brother "inherited" the Lego collection(I went in to DA). He was not a Lego purist as i was. I think he also could brake pieces (...) (24 years ago, 8-Oct-00, to lugnet.general)
   
        Re: Aging pieces with printing and logos —Tony Priestman
   On Sun, 8 Oct 2000, Joakim Olsson (<G245MH.7o7@lugnet.com>) wrote at 13:27:49 (...) I have some original Space guys, from way back in 1979, and they are now missing most of the logo off their chest, and also bricks which the classic Space logo also (...) (24 years ago, 8-Oct-00, to lugnet.general)
   
        Re: Aging pieces with printing and logos —Gary Istok
    (...) Ditto for a lot of the really old castle minifigs. A lot of the embossed coat-of-arms on these figs has virtually faded away. And my minifigs had gotten virtually no play wear. Gary Istok (24 years ago, 9-Oct-00, to lugnet.general)
 

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