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Subject:	Re: Color change: CEO Draft Letter
Newsgroups:	lugnet.color, lugnet.lego, lugnet.general
Date:	Thu, 2 Dec 2004 22:41:58 GMT
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In lugnet.color, David Eaton wrote: > First set to use dark grey (according to Peeron) is 590 Engine Co. #9 (1977): > http://www.peeron.com/inv/colortable/3024?ip=0 Is that Peeron chart just for a specific part? It's showing DkGrey and Brown as making very late appearances... > Yeah, grey *brick* was really uncommon until around 1984 when the castle theme > started using it. Beforehand, it was around in plates mostly, but grey bricks > were only speckled in here and there in various sets. Yeah, the earliest grey bricks I got were in classic space set 894 Tracking Station in 1979 (a 2x4 and a bunch of 1x1,2,3). > Heh, hopefully the above works well enough :) Yup! Must've been bored! ;] Thanx, KDJ ______________________________ LUGNETer #203, Ontario, Canada

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		Re: Color change: CEO Draft Letter
(...) Oops, wrong link... (URL) Yeah, grey brick was really uncommon until around 1984 when the castle (...) Cross between bored and curious I guess :) Once I realized how to do it rather quickly, it was pretty easy... Though admittedly writing a (...) (20 years ago, 2-Dec-04, to lugnet.color, lugnet.lego, lugnet.general)

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		Re: Color change: CEO Draft Letter
(...) First set to use dark grey (according to Peeron) is 590 Engine Co. #9 (1977): (URL) the Brickshelf scan, it does indeed look like they're dark grey. For brown, I see push-brooms in 1978: (URL) started showing up in "regular" pieces much later. (...) (20 years ago, 1-Dec-04, to lugnet.color, lugnet.lego, lugnet.general)

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