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The Oldest Lego Sets
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Fri, 20 May 2005 02:19:39 GMT
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For anyone who has ever wondered what the earliest Lego sets looked like before
the advent of the modern Lego, here is a pic that shows the 4 oldest Lego set
styles.
Eric Strand used Photoshop to size them nicely, and Clark Stephens has them on
his brickshelf gallery:
http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?i=1231324
These are all the covers to the #700/x sets, which were produced from 1949 until
1956. These sets are basic sets #700/1, #700/2, #700/3, #700/3A, #700/4, #700/5
and #700/6. Each set in the #700 series had the same general box top design,
with the larger boxes (#700/1 is the largest set, #700/6 is the smallest set)
having some additional artwork to fill up the box top space. There were an
additional 4 versions of the #700/x sets produced from 1957-65.
The set dates are as follows:
Upper Left: 1949-50
Lower Left: 1951-52
Upper Right: 1953
Lower Right: 1954-56
These are some of the most colorful Lego boxes ever.
Enjoy!
Gary Istok
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 | | Re: The Oldest Lego Sets
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| (...) Ooops, got a little ahead of myself...... The dates on those old 1949-56 #700/x sets are still tentative. Waiting to hear back from TLG for sure. Gary Istok (19 years ago, 20-May-05, to lugnet.general)
| | | Re: The Oldest Lego Sets
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| (...) OK, I got confirmation from the folks in Billund about the actual dates that these sets were produced..... Upper Left: 1949-53 Lower Left: 1952-53 Upper Right: 1953-55 Lower Right: 1953-55 In essence what they said was these box styles were (...) (19 years ago, 23-May-05, to lugnet.general)
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