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Re: Strange plate bottom variant
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lugnet.general
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Fri, 25 Jul 2003 20:58:15 GMT
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In lugnet.general, Niels Karsdorp wrote:
> Browsing through my collection 2x8 white sleeper plates for my blue track,
> I noticed a bottom-variant I haven't seen before. I know the old waffle-
> bottom and the current tube-bottom variants, but this is a variant on the
> tube-bottom plate: not all studs have a hole below them. But all studs
> are present at the top and all have 'LEGO' on them.
> This plate is the middle one on the picture:
> http://home.hetnet.nl/~niels-karsdorp/ldraw/question/plates.jpg
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> Does anyone know about this variant?
That's a Samsonite-era plate, from the early 70's, I believe. I scored a
dozen or so from an Ebay lot. Did you happen to notice if the LEGO logo is
slightly different from the modern incarnation? I seem to recall that the
lettering was more rounded than the current style. Also, do the studs on the
surface of the plate have a little ridge around their rims?
Dave!
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