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OK, I was at a Barnes & Noble Bookstore in downtown Detroit yesterday and I was looking at a book on antique toys (I do this often trying in vain to find something on Lego). And these thick books talk about everything from Lincoln Logs to Erector (...) (19 years ago, 24-Jun-05, to lugnet.general)
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(...) Not equally complex, but quite interesting: The old Ankersteine/Anchor Stones (URL) product was created ~1880, and the old factory has been revived and is still making stones and sets. I'll try to find out how many sets and parts there are (...) (19 years ago, 24-Jun-05, to lugnet.general)
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(...) OK, it's about 600 sets, 2000 different parts, 3 main colors (max 10 total), so it's not really in the 'competition'. But it's quite a nice toy... (19 years ago, 24-Jun-05, to lugnet.general)
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(...) Thanks Anders, Whenever I look at the old Antique Toy Books with their 900 pages or so, I keep thinking that with Lego included the books would be about 1/3 larger. Anders and I share one thing in common on LUGNET. In a way we are both "Lego (...) (19 years ago, 24-Jun-05, to lugnet.general)
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(...) Actually that's "Eskilstuna" (Eskil's town) :-)) (19 years ago, 24-Jun-05, to lugnet.general)
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(...) Sorry Anders, that's almost as hard to pronounce as my town (just outside Coburg, Bavaria, Germany) called "Mönchröden" (Monks of the River Röden), named for the 875 year old abbey in the middle of the town (I was baptised there). Gary Istok (19 years ago, 24-Jun-05, to lugnet.general)
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Well, not *quite* as antique as you, but I started in 1968 or 69... (...) -- Tom Stangl *(URL) Visual FAQ home *(URL) Visual FAQ Home (19 years ago, 25-Jun-05, to lugnet.general)
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(...) they wooden blocks or are they actually stone? What is it that sets these apart from other construction toys? Thank You. Dan (19 years ago, 26-Jun-05, to lugnet.general)
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(...) Anchor Stones are "stone" made of ground quartz, chalk, linseed oil, with colouring added in. This mixture is pressed into the differnt shaped molds. Janey Red Brick (19 years ago, 26-Jun-05, to lugnet.general)
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(...) As Janey said. Artificial stone. Looks like stone, feels like stone, heavy as stone. I got one of the smaller boxes from the factory as thanks for my CAD program, and I was very intrigued when I got a message from the post office about a quite (...) (19 years ago, 3-Jul-05, to lugnet.general)
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