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Re: How old are these Legos?
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lugnet.general
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Tue, 22 Jun 1999 17:01:43 GMT
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To all,
No disrespect to Bill Katz, I am still new to the AFOL community, I guess. Gary
just blew me away with his Lego expertise! Maybe we could use an expert page to
list all the knowledgeable people to send questions to on Lugnet!
Scott Sanburn
P.S. To Gary: It's Sanburn, not Sandburn, I get burned enough as it is, without
the sand! :)
Gary Istok wrote:
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> Well I'm back now.... and Bill did a great job in answering in my absence
> (smirking profusely). All kidding aside, there are about a dozen people that I
> would consider among the best in the world (in the online LEGO community) at
> being knowledgeable about historic LEGO (1956-72) - and Bill Katz is among
> them, especially the Samsonite Era.
>
> Gary Istok
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> P.S. Scott Sandburn happens to be the first online AFOL I've ever met in
> person, and I gave him and Mark Koesel a LEGO history lesson over lunch about a
> month ago.
>
> Bill Katz wrote:
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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:
> > : >
> > : > 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.
> >
> > I don't know about 1615, but...
> >
> > : >
> > : > The really interesting parts are some windows and doors that don't
> > : > have a complete bottom, they have 'prongs' that hold the part on ..
> >
> > 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.
> >
> > 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
> >
> > for a picture of these sets.
> >
> > -Bill
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