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Re: Unknown LEGO Set... (and yet another one)
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Thu, 10 Jan 2013 20:13:28 GMT
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Well here's another unknown LEGO set (there's still plenty out there!)....
It was purchased by a German acquaintance at a German auction, and is unlike any
wooden box set I've seen before... very unusual.
It has 24 compartments... which is the standard arrangement for 1957-72 large
wooden box sets.... a pullout drawer with 8 small compartments, a 4 large
shallow compartment area underneath where the pullout drawer goes... and an area
of 12 (3 rows x 4 rows) medium sized deep compartments.
This set has the "LEGO Gnome" on the box top (he was a popular LEGO box and
catalog fixture from 1954-62) building a LEGO structure, which can be seen on
the back of 1958-60 spare parts packs. There is a sliding top (also very common
to large EU wooden box sets of that era, and an unusual feature... a metal plate
on the sides with the 1957-60 LEGO logo on it, held into the wood with 2 metal
pins.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/82930629@N08/8367383413/sizes/l/in/photostream/
The box top has a similar image to the back of 1957-60 LEGO spare parts packs...
as seen here....
http://www.peeron.co...-1?showpic=4934
This set has 6 10x20 thick baseplates, a LOT of red classic windows and doors,
white plates, and just red and white bricks. These parts have all the hallmarks
of a 700K institutional wooden box set. These (1959-66) 700K sets had different
uses in different countries... in Belgium they were used for schoolroom use with
alphabet bricks included... in Switzerland they were used for Kindergartens,
with mostly larger bricks, and in Denmark they were sold to commercial
businesses such as Beauty Parlors and Barber Shops, so it would allow the parent
the opportunity to bring their children along (without being bothered, and no
need for a babysitter).
This box may be an early (1959) German 700K, which is labeled in 1960 onward
LEGO catalogs as "700 Holzsortierkasten K" (700 wooden box K).
But due to the very unusual nature of the look of the box... it may be a
prototype, since I've never seen a wooden box set even resembling this (and my
LEGO DVD/download chapter has 80 wooden boxes pictured... but none look anything
like this one).
Very strange!!
Gary Istok
P.S. This image will be in the next version of the LEGO DVD/download... free to
current owners when it comes out...
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