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Re: Very Rare Find: European Dealer Windows Box.
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Tue, 29 Jun 1999 23:01:05 GMT
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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 away just before I got out of my dark ages. :(
--
Arjan Brugman
abrugman@casema.net
Gary Istok <gistok@umich.edu> wrote in article
<377922C0.705C1412@umich.edu>...
> 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
>
>
>
>
>
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