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Many of you probably find LEGO country flags (with stickers) mixed in with miscellaneous LEGO lots. Did you ever wonder just where they all originated from? Dave Shifflett of California brought this British EBAY auction item to my attention (...) (18 years ago, 4-Feb-07, to lugnet.general)
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(...) Opps, that's a typo! I meant to say the origions of the Australian flag, not British. The origins of the British stickered flag was never in question! :-) Gary Istok (18 years ago, 4-Feb-07, to lugnet.general)
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Hello Gerhard R. Istok, Your cross reference list is very neat, though I hoave to report a set that's still missing here: (URL) #1592> In my knowlege, there are at least two versions of this set: a UK version containing a sticker sheet with the (...) (18 years ago, 4-Feb-07, to lugnet.general, FTX)
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(...) valuable info but it still does give no clues about the sheet numbers! I have authored most of the flags for LDraw: (URL) where I used the sticker sheet number for the parts number. since we have also the japanese, US and belgium flag at the (...) (18 years ago, 4-Feb-07, to lugnet.general, FTX)
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(...) Thanks Manfred! Unfortunately the LEGO CD Chapter 12 - Promotional Sets only went to 1982. This set is a 1983 set in the Netherlands, but now that I look at my notes, it was a 1980 set in Britain, and should have been included. By the way the (...) (18 years ago, 5-Feb-07, to lugnet.general, FTX)
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(...) Willy, I purchased the #939 in Germany about 20 years ago, but unfortunately used all the country stickers and attached them to flags. All that is except for the LEGO Sticker, which is still attached to the sticker sheet. That's why I only (...) (18 years ago, 5-Feb-07, to lugnet.general, FTX)
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(...) Gary, to be honest I'm a bit confused now 'cos the scenario above doesn't follow any pattern. Since I'm solely interested in the sticker sheet number for the portuguese, belgium, french ... flags (to get them right at Ldraw's PT), would you (...) (18 years ago, 5-Feb-07, to lugnet.general)
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(...) Hi Willy, Yes, those 6 stickers match up to the "004159" sticker sheet. I can tell because the sticker sheet has the colors around the edges where the stickers used to be (except for the Japanese sticker, which has a white background and just (...) (18 years ago, 5-Feb-07, to lugnet.general)
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(...) Hello Gerhard, Which one of the (URL) two sets with number 1589> are you refering to? :-) I guess your question concerns the set with LUGNET reference number (URL) 1589_1>, Town Square. It is just as the information in the LUGNET database says (...) (18 years ago, 5-Feb-07, to lugnet.general, FTX)
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(...) Manfred, My mistake, I meant to say "1592", and instead said "1589" (the 1978 Weetabix UK set). So let me ask again (correctly), were there specific companies that promoted the British (1980) and Dutch (1983) #1592 set? Thanks, Gary Istok (18 years ago, 5-Feb-07, to lugnet.general, FTX)
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(...) I had a very slight hunch, so to be sure, I've consulted "backoffice"-wise with Lowlug. They've confirmed that the Dutch version of the set was a promo for the brand Unox, part of the Unilever company. This also explains why the Dutch version (...) (18 years ago, 6-Feb-07, to lugnet.general, FTX)
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I've made a small error in my pervious post: In the last paragraph, please substitute "the UK branch of the firm operated under the name Lever Brothers up until 1990" with "the US branch of the firm ..." (18 years ago, 6-Feb-07, to lugnet.general, FTX)
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Willy, Here's the comments from the Bricklink Canada Flag thread: My comments: (...) And the comments of a Canadian collector named Fred: (...) Fred, do you have (or remember having) an Australian flag/sticker and an Irish flag/sticker among your (...) (18 years ago, 8-Feb-07, to lugnet.general)
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Thanks Manfred, So Unilever is the company for the #1592 sets of Britain (1980) and Netherlands (1983). That makes perfect sense, since they (like Royal/DutchShell) are a British/Dutch company. Funny thing is I use LEVER 2000, their brand of soap! (...) (18 years ago, 8-Feb-07, to lugnet.general, FTX)
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(...) Hi Gary, Thank you for the handy list of sets that come with flags. Set #590 also came with a USA flag. Thanks, Michael (18 years ago, 9-Feb-07, to lugnet.general)
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(...) Thanks Michael! With a few other changes, here is the updated list. Gary Istok ___...___ Sets with Country Flags/Stickers: USA Flag: #367/#565, #372, #575, #590, #939, #5235, #6390. Canada Flag: #575, #939. Germany Flag: #939, #940. Britain (...) (18 years ago, 10-Feb-07, to lugnet.general)
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(...) [snip-snap] (...) gary, I never came across a candian or irish flag. I recall having seen the aussie version but not 100% sure (BL has no pic). it would be great if I could get my hands on a picture of those three and even better the sheet (...) (18 years ago, 10-Feb-07, to lugnet.general)
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(...) Willy, There are pics of them on Clark Stephens great parts website: (URL) Istok (18 years ago, 12-Feb-07, to lugnet.general)
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(...) As a Canadian who owns and just located three of these sets, I can answer some of your questions. All three sticker sheets came in the Canadian #939. I am looking at 003432, 004158 and 004159 right now. I also have Canadian #575 box, (...) (18 years ago, 16-Feb-07, to lugnet.general)
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(...) Well I just got an EMAIL from Fred Wiedemeyer from Canada who purchased the sealed British #939 on Bricklink. But unfortunately it was not totally sealed and someone took some stickers off of one of the sticker sheets. But here is what Fred (...) (18 years ago, 2-Mar-07, to lugnet.general, FTX)
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In lugnet.general, Gerhard R. Istok wrote: [snip-snap] (...) gary, this is fine news indeed! would it be possible to get my hands on a scan (preferibly in hires 600-800 dpi) of the sheet in order to turn it into a LDraw file? I also mailed Doug (...) (18 years ago, 5-Mar-07, to lugnet.general)
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(...) Willy, unfortunately, the Irish Flag was removed from the sticker sheet and put onto a flag in a rather poor manner (this was how Fred got the set). Figures it had to be that sticker sheet! I will see if I can at least get you a sticker sheet (...) (18 years ago, 6-Mar-07, to lugnet.general)
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(...) I finally dug out the stickers from the back of the basement again, managed to find drivers for my antique parallel port scanner and captured a 600dpi image of this: (URL) The three flag sheets (003432, 004159, 004158) came in the Canadian (...) (18 years ago, 10-Mar-07, to lugnet.general, FTX)
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(...) many, many thx for all the effort - also for the minifig and LEGO sign sheets! do I understand correctly when you say that the sticker sheet number with the canadian flags is 004632? quite an odd numbering: 1) 004158 - with the flags of (...) (18 years ago, 11-Mar-07, to lugnet.general)
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(...) Willy, Let me give you a little background on Canada. In circa 1970 TLG started litigation against the USA to get the LEGO license back from Samsonite USA (because they were selling LEGO like they were selling suitcases). Samsonite of Canada (...) (18 years ago, 12-Mar-07, to lugnet.general)
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(...) Hi Willy, Sorry for another delay. I was out of town all week and discovered I could not get to them either. I uploaded them to another web server and verified I can access them. I also edited that 80MB file into the individual sticker sheets (...) (18 years ago, 18-Mar-07, to lugnet.general)
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To clear up confusion, what I meant to say was: Canadian #939 came with 3 sticker sheets: 1) 004158 - Germany, Netherlands, Britain, Austria, Switzerland, Italy 2) 004159 - Portugal, Belgium, France, Japan, USA, LEG0. 3) 003432 - Scandinavia (...) (18 years ago, 18-Mar-07, to lugnet.general)
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