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Re: Extremely Rare MISB Mosaik Set Located...
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Mon, 25 Feb 2013 02:10:27 GMT
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In lugnet.general, Gerhard R. Istok wrote:
> An example of the oldest non-building LEGO set in MISB has been located. It is
> the 1955 dated 1300 "Mosaik Set", sold only in Denmark, Norway and Sweden. This
> set was not at all popular, and many of the examples may have been sent back to
> TLG.
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> TLG owns a used copy of this set, and has it in their LEGO Collections.
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> This is the first time I have ever seen the inside of this "museum quality" LEGO
> set.... thanks to my Dutch LEGO collector friend Henk Van Zanten. This is a
> Danish example with "System i leg" (Swedish and Norwegian examples would have
> "System i lek" on the box).
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> http://www.flickr.com/photos/54802887@N08/8484747569/sizes/l/in/contacts/
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> The inside is shrink wrapped, common for 1950-65 LEGO basic and model sets...
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> http://www.flickr.com/photos/54802887@N08/8485840706/sizes/l/in/contacts/
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> The colorful brochure has KKK's late sister Hanne on the brochure image.
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> The brochure (from another Dutch source) looks like this....
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> http://www.flickr.com/photos/52115582@N04/4936798065/sizes/z/in/pool-1476354@N21/
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> http://www.flickr.com/photos/52115582@N04/4936798355/sizes/z/in/pool-1476354@N21/
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> If this MISB set ever came up for auction... I could see it easily topping
> $2,000.
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> Cheers,
> Gary Istok
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> P.S. Another part of a group of 50 more rare images for the next version of my
> LEGO Collectors Guide DVD/download... (still available as listed in Lugnet
> Marketplace)... the upgrade version will be free to current owners... just
> finished another chapter (#74) this week.
I just got an image from the LEGO Archives from Billund on their version of the
1300 set. It was an open set, and shows what the set looks like without the
brochures....
http://www.flickr.com/photos/istokg/8495742582/sizes/l/in/photostream/
I believe that this set contained so few parts because TLG wanted to promote the
sales of the many new spare parts packs (of small bricks) that were introduced
the same year (1955) as the 1300 set. The extra partition at the back of the
set could be turned upside down to allow adding additionally purchased parts
stored within this box.
However, sales were so poor of this set, that many of them were likely returned
by retailers to TLG due to very poor sales. TLG likely reused the parts and
partitions in other sets, and perhaps used the (otherwise useless) boxes as
burning fuel that winter. This may explain why there are so few of these Mosaik
sets known (I only know of the existence of 2).
Here's a 1955 Swedish Department Store LEGO display with the 2 sizes of the
MOSAIK sets on the far left....
http://www.flickr.com/photos/82930629@N08/8506002014/sizes/l/in/photostream/
All 3 images will be in my next DVD/download version... free to current owners
(and at a discount to old CD owners).
Cheers,
Gary Istok
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