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Re: Very Rare Find: European Dealer Windows Box.
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Thu, 1 Jul 1999 16:14:35 GMT
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Mike,
I believe (and I'm not certain here) that there were 2 different Town Plan board
road layouts. One, the earlier 1950's board has a little square in front of the
main town block. Here is a picture of it from a 1958 catalog on Horst Lehner's
webpagbe (lower left of picture) - Note: one of my Dealer windows and door boxes
looks close to the set #700 near the top right of this same picture:
http://horst-lehner.mausnet.de/lego/katalog/gk58/GK58-1.JPG
The later (TLG and Samsonite) has a circular drive in front of this main town
block.
The European board (sold only separately) was #200, and was available in it's
variations from the mid 1950's thru 1968. The USA Samsonite board was #246, and
was available from 1961 thru about 1964, in 2 variations.
Here is the 1961-62 version (thanks to Bill Katz/Joe Lauher website) - not this is
basically the same as the European version (#200) from 1961-68):
http://www.chem.sunysb.edu/msl/LEGO/60s_d2.jpg
Here is the 1962-64 version (thanks to Bill Katz/Joe Lauher website) which has the
same town layout, but different front picture (this was never available in
Europe):
http://www.chem.sunysb.edu/msl/LEGO/60s_e2.jpg
Gary Istok
Mike Poindexter wrote:
> 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 them. (My printer
> will do 17"x22". Sounds like a fun little project...
>
> Mike
>
> PS: Why is it that I bought over 140 classic windows and doors and now I just
> want more even worse than I did before? This is the one downside of Lego.
>
> In lugnet.general, Gary R. Istok writes:
> > 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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| 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 (...) (26 years ago, 30-Jun-99, to lugnet.general)
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