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Re: How old are these Legos?
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Tue, 22 Jun 1999 14:17:45 GMT
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Those are the gears that she has.
Though the 'Blue' large gears shown for 104, is red in her collection.
This might help to date these better.
Thanks for the info.
-Lee.
Bill Katz wrote:
> Scott Edward Sanburn (ssanburn@aeieng.com) wrote:
> : Sounds like a question for Gary Istok....
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> I see he's moved to the front of the line for Samsonite era reference :)
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> In Gary's absence, I guess I'll answer.
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> : Scott Sanburn
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> : Lee Jorgensen wrote:
> : >
> : > Yesterday I found out that my Grandma has a bunch of older Legos.
> : > The Bucket that they are all in is 1615, but couldn't find it in Lugnet
> : > database.
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> I don't know about 1615, but...
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> : >
> : > The really interesting parts are some windows and doors that don't
> : > have a complete bottom, they have 'prongs' that hold the part on ..
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> Teh windows are "classic" lego windows. They go back to the beginning
> (1961 in the US), and many were inproduction inot hte 70s. The large
> gears are uniquely Samsonite parts. THere were similar (but smaller)
> large gears in the pre-technic era in Europe. The gears came out in
> about '65 - '67, and reamined until Samsonite shut down in '72 - '73.
> Originally they were in the set 001 - gears, as well as 004 master builder.
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> Toward the very end, Samsonite reduced the Lego offereings in the US to
> a half dozen or so basic boxes. The all had gears in them. This appeared
> to be a "reduce the inventory" sort of move. See:
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> http://www.chem.sunysb.edu/msl/LEGO/70s_sam1.jpg
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> for a picture of these sets.
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> -Bill
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Lee Jorgensen, Programmer/Analyst - Bankoe Systems, Inc.
mailto:jorgensen@bankoe.moc <-- reverse moc
mailto:ljorgensen@uswest.ten <-- reverse ten
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| Lee Jorgensen <ljorgensen@uswest.net> wrote in message news:376F9B09.67922A...est.net... (...) I think that the large blue and red gears might actually be different from one and other. You can see this if you look at: (URL) at this (and other pages (...) (26 years ago, 22-Jun-99, to lugnet.general)
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| Scott Edward Sanburn (ssanburn@aeieng.com) wrote: : Sounds like a question for Gary Istok.... I see he's moved to the front of the line for Samsonite era reference :) In Gary's absence, I guess I'll answer. : Scott Sanburn : Lee Jorgensen wrote: : > (...) (26 years ago, 21-Jun-99, to lugnet.general)
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