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Dan,
What you have is Lego made from Cellulose Acetate (or CA). That is a kind of
plastic that Lego used until 1963. After that, they switched to ABS still in
use today. The Pat. Pend. mark appears on both CA and ABS bricks.
The descriptions you use are classic CA. The color is lighter. It warps
easily, and is not as good for building as ABS. It is different kind of
plastic. They used several styles of logos, some of them are pictured here:
http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?i=118827
More info can be found with a search on Lugnet for Cellulose Acetate (esp.
Gary Istok's posts). There are also a few pics in my comparison gallery
(link below).
Hope that helps,
Clark
Visit my Vintage Parts pages, submissions always welcome:
http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?f=8642
Looking for a minifig, head, or torso? Try my helper:
http://home.att.net/~clarkcorner/VisualMiniHelper.html
In lugnet.market.appraisal, Dan Thompson writes:
> -snip- I looked
> through it and found some older bricks. I was wondering if anyone could let
> me know how old they were and about what they would be worth. Description -
> odd colored (red) with different LEGO lettering on top, made from a
> different type of plastic, good to very good condition with little
> scratch/scuffing and inside where numbers usually are, it reads "patent
> pending". Any help would be very much appreciated. -Dan Thompson
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