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New Lego window variations.
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lugnet.general
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Thu, 4 Nov 2004 04:18:31 GMT
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While working on the Lego CD, I talked with my friend Kurt Richter of Germany,
who knows a lot about early Lego.
It seems that in 1957 when Lego came out with the classic windows - 1x6x3
(Panorama), 1x6x2 (3 pane), 1x6x2 (shutter), 1x4x2, 1x3x2, 1x2x2, 1x1x2, 1x2x1,
1x1x1, and the right and left handed classic doors, they made 2 variations in
1957. One was the windows/doors as we know them, with glass. The other was a
variation with NO GLASS!! It appears that the no glass variation is very rare.
The problem with collecting these would be this: someone can easily remove the
glass from these pieces, and voila! you have rarer windows/doors than you
otherwise would.
In the CD I talk about rare variations that can be easily counterfeited. Some
of the most easily "created" rare variations are those containing parts from
from a transitional era. For example I have a 9 piece #225 1x6 & 1x8 yellow
beams (bricks) parts pack from 1963-65. It appears to date to around 1964-65
because 1) all the beams are ABS plastic, and 2) the 5 1x6 beams have no posts
underneath, while the 4 1x8 beams HAVE posts underneath (the change to beams
with posts underneath happened circa 1964-65). This is a rare transitional set,
but it would be sooooo easy to create a counterfeit set just like this.
I also have a 5 piece 1958 #215 red 4x4 corner bricks parts pack with 2 (1957)
no tubes underneath corner bricks, and 3 (1958) with tubes underneath corner
bricks. Again, it would be so very collectible as an oddity if it weren't for
the fact that these could be "created" easily. So therefore this "fakery" would
prevent sets like these from being worth more than the regular parts packs of
the era.
Any one who has USA Samsonite sets from 1961-72 will be astonished when
examining the individual pieces. You will find ABS mixed in with Cellulose
Acetate, waffle bottom plates mixed in with circle bottom plates, some beams
with posts underneath, others without, not to mention at least 3 (4 if you're
lucky) different fonts on the Lego elements. Visual MAYHEM!!! (German: "da wird
mann naerrisch!"). The Lego CD will help Lego collectors differentiate between
a set that was "put together with random parts" versus a set that has a lot of
weird parts that just don't belong together... but that was how they were
issued!!!
Anyway, I'm rambling again.
Gary Istok
A Lego addict since 1960.
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