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Re: Lego on postage stamps
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Date: 
Mon, 9 Feb 2004 23:53:43 GMT
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In lugnet.general, David Laswell wrote:
In lugnet.general, Martin Bruun wrote:
Just out of curiousity,

Does anyone know of any postage stamps with Lego on them?

The only other ones I know of were released in Singapore about 18 months ago:

http://www.singpost.com/04_stamps_phil/yr2002_Toys.htm

There were four of them, each featuring an older style of toy and the closest
LEGO equivalent (basic Duplo & System bricks/wooden blocks, plastic cowboys &
Indians/Tahu, paper doll/Belville?, and sheet-metal vehicles/Racers RC
vehicle?).

There's a bit more information and slightly large images here:
http://www.bzpower.com/story.php?ID=535
I picked up the stamps and have them hanging around somewhere. Looks like the
left portion of the top left stamp is LEGO-based, at least the house and
possibly the figure; and of course Tahu. It doesn't look like any of the others
contain LEGO.

- Kelly



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(...) The "local-only" stamp in the upper left has System (red/blue house) and Duplo (train in front of house) bricks, the upper right "60" stamp has Tahu, the lower left "70" stamp has a Scala figure (which I mistakenly thought was Belville), and (...) (20 years ago, 10-Feb-04, to lugnet.general)

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(...) The only other ones I know of were released in Singapore about 18 months ago: (URL) were four of them, each featuring an older style of toy and the closest LEGO equivalent (basic Duplo & System bricks/wooden blocks, plastic cowboys & (...) (20 years ago, 9-Feb-04, to lugnet.general)

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