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Re: golden stickers!!!
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Fri, 6 Jun 2003 10:10:57 GMT
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Jon D Hayward wrote:
> The "Golden Studs" promotion was a mail-in offer that ran in the UK
> from 1974 to 1976. Each set bought contained one or more Golden Studs
> stickers, dependant on value.
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> In 1974, you would get 2 studs in sets selling for under a Pound, 4
> studs in sets up to 2GBP, 6 studs in sets up to 4GBP, and 10 studs in
> larger sets! 8 studs would get you a mum figure from set 200 (worth
> 30p at the time!), 16 studs would get you mum and the two kids (worth
> 65p), while 24 would get you a complete set worth 1.25GBP. See
> http://library.brickshelf.com/scans/catalogs/1974/c74uk/c74uk-16.html
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> In 1975, the number of studs on offer was less: 2 studs in sets up to
> 2GBP; 4 studs in sets up to 4GBP; 6 for up to 6GBP and 10 studs for
> anything else. The promotion changed that year to: 8 studs for 20 red
> and white 8-stud bricks (worth 30p); 16 studs for 20 bricks plus 4
> large red spoked wheels with tyres and bearing bricks (worth 65p);
> and 24 studs for the aforementioned plus opening doors, windows and
> shutters worth 1.25GBP. See
> http://library.brickshelf.com/scans/catalogs/1975/c75uk/c75uk-16.html
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> In 1976, you would get 1 stud in sets under a Pound up to a maximum
> of 6 studs in sets costing over 5GBP. The offer was the same as in
> the previous year, but the gifts were valued at 35p, 75p and 1.45GBP
> respectively. See
> http://library.brickshelf.com/scans/catalogs/1976/c76uk/c76uk-16.html
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> IIRC, the Golden Stud sticker sheets were all the same size with 2
> peel-off stickers. Each sticker contained none, one ore two studs
> with blank 'studs' blacked out (I don't have any to refer to, and a
> Google search returns nothing!).
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> HTH :-)
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> J
I was worried there for a second that all that info was from memory.
Then I would have worried :)
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James Stacey
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| (...) Hey - I remember these! I also remember not having many of them and feeling very despondant.... Thanks for the memory Jon Reynolds (...) (21 years ago, 6-Jun-03, to lugnet.loc.uk)
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| The "Golden Studs" promotion was a mail-in offer that ran in the UK from 1974 to 1976. Each set bought contained one or more Golden Studs stickers, dependant on value. In 1974, you would get 2 studs in sets selling for under a Pound, 4 studs in sets (...) (21 years ago, 6-Jun-03, to lugnet.loc.uk)
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