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LEGO Wooden Box Sets... least known of all LEGO Sets...
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Tue, 15 Jan 2013 00:19:19 GMT
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It started in 1957... when Axel Thomsen, a friend of Godtfred Kirk Christiansen who owned a doll house making factory in Lerum Sweden started making wooden box sets for LEGO sales in Sweden and Germany, the 2 countries that he was the LEGO Director for. TLG Denmark didn't fully know what he was doing, but his skills in building doll houses, also worked well in making wooden box LEGO sets... which continued production until 1980. There were over 80 different sets, although no online database lists more than about 1/2 dozen... and even the LEGO Billund Vault only has a few sets in their collections...
But 80+ sets were produced, and sold in all countries... mostly in Continental
Europe. Ironically the most valuable ones would be the largest ones... made for
USA/Canada Institutions and schools.
Here's a "beginners manual" to the very complex and often frustrating history of
these complex sets...
http://www.eurobricks.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=78138
Enjoy!
Gary Istok
P.S. Most of these are from Chapter 14 - Wooden Box Sets of my LEGO DVD
download.
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