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Re: Rarest Regular Lego Part....
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Sat, 18 Sep 2004 02:06:55 GMT
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In lugnet.general, Ronald Borchert wrote:
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In lugnet.general, Gerhard R. Istok wrote:
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Can anyone think of any other?
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Hi Gary,
as you know there is a huge ammount of parts, which only appear in one
set-number.
But there is a regular part (and i think it’s a “common brick”), which
appears in only one unique Set:
It is the red 1x2 tile with the four digit number from set 10020 Santa Fe
Limited Edition.
I think this is the most rare “regular” part which means for me that it is
produced regular for a normaly sold set. However there are 9999 different
types (numbers) of this part, so this and the fact it is not a vintage part
might be the reason why it is quite expensive, but not that expensive, what
one think it has to be.
http://www.bricklink.com/catalogPriceGuide.asp?P=3069px43&colorID=5
For me rare is not the same as expensive, there are lots of parts which are
very rare and quite cheep.
When i build my bridge for the 1000steine-Land 2003
http://festum.de/1000steine/myimages/albuo24
i was looking for a special part, the 1x3x1 arch in red
I had 3 of this and looked for 3 more.
They were very rare to find and at that time there were only 2 at bricklink.
I didn’t buy them although they only should cost ~25ct each because both were
in different parts of the world :-)
Now, there are some of them still not expensive at bricklink as well as the
same rare part in blue:
http://www.bricklink.com/catalogPriceGuide.asp?P=4490&colorID=5 from set
6073
http://www.bricklink.com/catalogPriceGuide.asp?P=4490&colorID=7 from set
6274
There are other rare parts, specially decorated parts like tiles which appear
in only one set and are not very expensive (nobody needs them really?).
I.e.:
http://www.bricklink.com/catalogPriceGuide.asp?P=3068bpb10&colorID=11 from
set 6510
and little more expensive:
http://www.bricklink.com/catalogPriceGuide.asp?P=3068bp07&colorID=3 from
set 6954.
as well as non-decorated but also rare parts like:
http://www.bricklink.com/catalogPriceGuide.asp?P=2419&colorID=14 from Set
6953
And also at the Fabuland theme you will find some very rare parts like
http://www.bricklink.com/catalogPriceGuide.asp?P=fabeg3&colorID=3 drum
stick, it is normaly not known that this is a Lego part :-)
http://www.bricklink.com/catalogItemIn.asp?P=x838&colorID=5&in=S red
parasol stand, never been sold on bricklink .
And one of the most rare and expensive parts might be the black 1x1x2 window
from 7730 and 7750:
http://www.bricklink.com/catalogPriceGuide.asp?P=29&colorID=11
I don’t mention thousands of unique parts with stickers which also appear
(cause of the sticker) in only one set.
There are lots of unique Parts in new sets, maybe they will become sometimes
very rare and expensive. I think lot of parts of the SW and HP series have
good chances in the future.
Greetings Ronald
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Yes I knew there would be a lot of very rare printed items. And there are a lot
of items only found in 1 set. With Lego, there are so many rare pieces, that it
becomes nearly impossible to say what is the “rarest” part.
However, here are two examples that get my vote (besides the unique platinum
promotional Bionicle mask). They are 2 very rare variations on an already rare
part. So far, only 1 and 2 examples are known of these 2 variatons, and here is
their story (as told in my CD):
One of my favorite Lego sets is the #325 Shell Station from 1966-70 (Europe
Only). It has 2 clear/yellow fliptop garage doors that are only ever found in
this one set. This same fliptop garage door were produced in red (1957-72) and
the rarer white (1957-65, Europe only). The 2 clear garage doors had yellow
paint applied to outline 9 panels in them (probably with a stencil). Four years
I purchased one that had no paint on it whatsoever. The European seller
appologized for it saying he had gotten the #325 set as a boy, and one of the
garage doors was painted, the other was not. He sold me the unpainted on for
less than the painted example. When the pair arrived, I took them to a jeweler
friend. We check the unpainted one under a 30x microscope, and compared it with
the painted one. We could find no traces of paint on the first example.
I also know of an English Lego collector who has the same #325 set in MINT.
Both of his garage doors are totally painted yellow (on one side). Even the
panels (which should be clear) are yellow.
It appears that Lego had a slight quality control problem (to the advantage of
collectors) which caused these errors. And I believe that perhaps a few other
fully painted or unpainted examples of these very rare Lego elements may surface
in the future.
Gary Istok
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