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Ah ha!! ABS Plastic was introduced in 1963!!! The World of Lego Toys says 1961! I always thought that there was way too much Cellulose Acetate Lego around for the change to have taken place in 1961. And it said that the first sets with instructions (...) (25 years ago, 18-Aug-99, to lugnet.general)
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(...) be able to read it. (...) I've got a bunch of friends who are librarians, and I've asked them to check the OCLC listings to see if that book is in any library here in the US. Paul Sinasohn at last, useful for something! (25 years ago, 18-Aug-99, to lugnet.general)
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Gary Istok skrev i meddelandet <37BAFA87.3BD2FB3D@u...ch.edu>... (...) always (...) change (...) Of course you cannot be _sure_ about the years given in the book (I pointed one discrepancy out). What the book says is that Cellulose Acetate stopped (...) (25 years ago, 18-Aug-99, to lugnet.general)
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(...) Do you have a picture of one of these 50 x 50 roadplates? (25 years ago, 18-Aug-99, to lugnet.general)
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(...) If the one Gary is talking about is the same type as the one we have here, then imagine a regular modern 48x48 baseplate, except make it 50x50 instead. Suzanne has a picture on her website of one of these baseplates, although it's completely (...) (25 years ago, 19-Aug-99, to lugnet.general)
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Paul Sinasohn wrote in message ... (...) would (...) check (...) Paul, This is a little off-topic, but you can search the libraries yourself with a program called Bookwhere (www.bookwhere.com) which I have used to find some very rare books before. (...) (25 years ago, 19-Aug-99, to lugnet.general)
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| | Re: 50x50 baseplate (was: Re: The LEGO history - Interesting book found at the library)
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(...) Here is an eBay picture (that's a switch, isn't it, of a LUGNET item referencing an eBay item) of one of the rare 50x50 plates with a roadway on it. I recently purchased it in eBay. Scroll down to the bottom of the eBay listing for the (...) (25 years ago, 19-Aug-99, to lugnet.general)
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| | Re: 50x50 baseplate (was: Re: The LEGO history - Interesting book found at the library)
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(...) I'm really wondering when and where I've seen this plate in the stores. I know I have seen it in the stores, and it seems to me that I saw it more recently than 1972, in fact, I'd almost be sure of it. I know this is one of the items I looked (...) (25 years ago, 19-Aug-99, to lugnet.general)
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| | Re: 50x50 baseplate (was: Re: The LEGO history - Interesting book found at the library)
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Frank, you never know what old stock you're gonna find in a Toy Store. 11 years after the London Bus (#760) came on the scene in 1975, I picked up a large quantity of them in 1986 at a suburban Detroit toy store chain. Ditto for the Lear Jet (#455). (...) (25 years ago, 19-Aug-99, to lugnet.general)
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Thanks, John!! (...) (25 years ago, 20-Aug-99, to lugnet.general)
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(...) to which Paul Sinasohn replied, somewhere down the thread: (...) Paul, IANALibrarian, but I have access to OCLC on the web through my local branch of the library. I checked WorldCat and found oodles of interesting stuff, but not this (...) (25 years ago, 27-Apr-00, to lugnet.general, lugnet.books)
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