Subject:
|
Very Rare Find: European Dealer Windows Box.
|
Newsgroups:
|
lugnet.general
|
Date:
|
Tue, 29 Jun 1999 19:47:13 GMT
|
Viewed:
|
589 times
|
| |
|
|
I'm reprinting this article from RTL from Mike Poindexter, as well as my
reply.
Gary Istok
Mike Poindexter wrote:
> I was in Switzerland and found a shop where the owner said he had no
> Lego.
> There were several boxes on a shelf and I asked about them. They were
> 15
> year old Technic sets still in the boxes. He said he had just those
> and a
> little more in the warehouse. I paid 500 Swiss Francs ($350 US) and
> got all
> he had except for the model team set and 2 OLD boats that were glued
> together. (They had CLEAR macaroni!)
>
> I got a town plan board, along with the original dealer box of classic
> doors
> and windows that had about 140 of them still in it. LOTS of 2x3 and
> 2x6
> windows, mostly in red and a few white.
>
> I also got all of his dealer documentation from 1969 and on to about
> 1985 or
> so. (In French, so I can't read much). They even had a Lego News
> newspaper!
>
> It is amazing that they had been in that shop for 30 years and still
> not
> sold out of the windows, which were available individually!
>
> Also, while I was in France, I bought a Fort Legoredo (Called Fort
> Willi -
> no wonder they still had it!) for $50 US. It even had a shooting
> cannon.
> Too bad I couldn't buy the rest of them. (They had 14, but my luggage
> was
> full and the wheels broke, so I bore ALL the weight).
>
> If I lived in Europe, I would scour the continent until I found all
> the
> little shops like this one. Absolutely awesome stuff!
>
> Mike
Mike,
Congratulations on your rare find of the Dealer Windows & Doors box.
You are now experiencing what I experienced from 1979-92 whenever I
travelled to Germany and Austria (the intoxicating fun of finding rare
old LEGO).
We'll have to compare dealer boxes.
I assume yours is set "#214 1-10". (I got 2 of these in 1979 in
Germany).
Is yours made out of cardboard, and a little smaller than a
scrabble/monopoly box? And is it one of these 2 styles?:
A) Blue border with "SYSTEM IN PLAY" in about 15 different languages and
a picture (yellow background) of KKK and his 2 sisters on top playing
with the 1958 Town Plan board.
or
B) Blue box with a picture of all 10 window & door types (in red) on
top.
Or maybe a 3rd different type perhaps?
These boxes are among the rarest of the rare, as far as old LEGO sets
are concerned, mostly because the boxes were never for sale, only the
contents. I believe they were in production from the mid 1950's to
about the mid 1960's.
Great find!!!
Gary Istok
|
|
Message has 2 Replies:
 | | Re: Very Rare Find: European Dealer Windows Box.
|
| About that newspaper... didn't you guys in the US get a Lego newspaper? Here in Holland every 3 months or so, a new paper would come out. They featured new sets, but also a story and unofficial models sent in by readers. Too bad I threw them all (...) (25 years ago, 29-Jun-99, to lugnet.general)
| | | Re: Very Rare Find: European Dealer Windows Box.
|
| Gary, It is a new cover design of box. I will take a photo of it and the town plan board later and post links. How many different town plan boards are there? The box shows one, but the one I got is different. If I could scan them in, I could print (...) (25 years ago, 30-Jun-99, to lugnet.general)
|
5 Messages in This Thread:
 
- Entire Thread on One Page:
- Nested:
All | Brief | Compact | Dots
Linear:
All | Brief | Compact
|
|
|
|
