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I know this is probably a long shot, but I am looking for 14 gray 2x2 windows like those found in the 7740 train set: (URL) am willing to pay up to $2 a piece for them. Russell Clark, BayLUG/BayLTC (URL) 3942370 (24 years ago, 13-Apr-00, to lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade, lugnet.trains)
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(...) Russell, I don't want to jinx your request. But these pieces are "rather" difficult to find. I bet Larry P. would like to chime in here right now! Good Luck in your search, Gary Istok (24 years ago, 13-Apr-00, to lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade, lugnet.trains)
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Especially since it would mean parting out at least two of those things for the quantity requested. If someone decides to do it, I would like the yellow doors with the red stripe. I got a new can of Brasso just dying to be used. ;-) -Nick Gary Istok (...) (24 years ago, 13-Apr-00, to lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade, lugnet.trains)
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(...) I figured this, thats why its a long shot. I was hoping someone may have a few loose ones to sell. I'm not expecting anyone to part out a set just for this. Russell (24 years ago, 13-Apr-00, to lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade, lugnet.trains)
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(...) I have in the past offered 5 a piece and didn't get any takers. So 2 may be a little light. Wish you luck and I won't try to outbid you... this time. ++Lar (24 years ago, 14-Apr-00, to lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade, lugnet.trains)
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Up until recently it was believed that 7740 was the only set that contained these 2x1x2 classic windows in grey but I've found one other set that contained one such window, Windmill set 352 from 1972. There are probably others from this period also (...) (24 years ago, 15-Apr-00, to lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade, lugnet.trains)
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I've got about 80 of them but he would have to take the rest of the 7740's to get them and at $400 to $500 each it would be a little expensive just for the grey windows. :-} Mark H. (...) (24 years ago, 15-Apr-00, to lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade, lugnet.trains)
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(...) these (...) Hi Mark, very interesting news, but I fear this is just a problem in reading these kind of old building instruction Lego used for a short period in the early 70ies.... These instructions show all new added items in colour, but the (...) (24 years ago, 16-Apr-00, to lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade, lugnet.trains)
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Hi Ben, Wrong, as I received a 352 from a seller in France that contained the single grey 2x1x2 classic window. As we both agree to how rare it is, the seller would not have just had one lying around and misread the instructions. The seller even (...) (24 years ago, 17-Apr-00, to lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade, lugnet.trains)
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(...) grey (...) damaged and he replaced it with a red one. (...) Dear Mark, and this is really not the revanche for my april fool joke? I can't believe! I'm a collector since a really long time and I never saw an old grey window and I never saw a (...) (24 years ago, 17-Apr-00, to lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade, lugnet.trains)
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OK fellows, I want to chime in here for a moment..... I can't confirm this one way or another. What made me agree with Ben about this is the fact that those 352 Windmill instructions show the different levels of the building progression in different (...) (24 years ago, 19-Apr-00, to lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade, lugnet.trains, lugnet.general)
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Duhhhhhh!! In all my excitement, I forgot to post the website with the picture of the 352 Windmill set with the white windows/door: (URL) Istok (...) (24 years ago, 19-Apr-00, to lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade, lugnet.trains, lugnet.general)
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(...) Those are indeed great items--and I'm amazed at how rare grey really are. The fact that they were never made in black, I find just...weird. I'm interested in what they eventually say about the *other* Classic window moulds (especially the (...) (24 years ago, 19-Apr-00, to lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade, lugnet.trains, lugnet.general)
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(...) Lar, the (...) run of (...) fact that (...) Classic windows and the 3x3 low sloped corners have been part of a couple of sets: windows for e.g. in 7730, 7750. The sloped corners for e.g. in both of the train stations during the nineties, in (...) (24 years ago, 20-Apr-00, to lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade, lugnet.trains, lugnet.general)
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(...) Lindsay, 1x2x2 windows do exist in black. But I can't say in what set. I purchased two of these, as well as one 1x1x2 (thin tall) window in black in a German toy stores train parts box back in the 80's. This wooden box with lots of partitions (...) (24 years ago, 20-Apr-00, to lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade, lugnet.trains, lugnet.general)
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In lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade, Gary R. Istok writes: <snipped-a-lot> (...) Black 1x2x2 windows appeared in the following 80s train sets that I know: 7727 (2x) 7750 (2x) 7810 (4x) Also the 7750 has 4 1x1x2 windows in black. The 7760 has 2 1x3x2 (...) (24 years ago, 20-Apr-00, to lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade, lugnet.trains, lugnet.general)
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(...) Yes a collector friend in Germany told me about that rare 1x3x2 blue window. It's in the locomotive, if I remember correctly. It's the only occurrance of a 1x3x2 window in a color besides red or white. I hope that Brad Justus confirms that (...) (24 years ago, 20-Apr-00, to lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade, lugnet.trains, lugnet.general)
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Gary (or anyone), Can you tell me what other sets (if the number isn't huge) come with the 1x2x2 yellow window. I have a few of these windows and I am pretty sure they did come from that old Shell set (325). I personlly found them at a garage sale (...) (24 years ago, 20-Apr-00, to lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade, lugnet.trains, lugnet.general)
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This thread is getting a little OT for .trains-- mind if I trim? -John (...) (24 years ago, 20-Apr-00, to lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade, lugnet.general)
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(...) 1x2x2 (...) I don't have a list with appearances of this window. I have a yellow 1x2x2 window from <set:6689>. -- Frank Buiting Visit the LEGO Lexicon: (URL) (24 years ago, 21-Apr-00, to lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade, lugnet.general)
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(...) for e.g. set 149 fuel refilling station from 1976. another set is 368 taxi station. Regards, Ben (24 years ago, 23-Apr-00, to lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade, lugnet.trains, lugnet.general)
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Reinhard \"Ben\" Beneke schreef: (...) I know 6689 (post office, 1984) had one 1x2x2 yellow window as well, and it's on eBay a lot for reasonable prices... (24 years ago, 23-Apr-00, to lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade, lugnet.trains, lugnet.general)
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(...) There were quite a few sets that had yellow 1x2x2 windows. The Police Station set #585 had the most ever, with 11 windows. There were a few basics sets that had these as well. Sets #510 and #517, both from the mid 1980's had 2 windows in each (...) (24 years ago, 24-Apr-00, to lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade, lugnet.trains, lugnet.general)
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Way back when, when Samsonite ran the Canadian Distribution for Lego, they offered a spare parts sale through the Lego Club. I was a wee tyke then, so it must have been around 1980 or so. I ordered a box of parts, and it turned out to include a (...) (24 years ago, 24-Apr-00, to lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade, lugnet.trains, lugnet.general)
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Hello, In my childhood, I owned a 352 windmill, and I'm absolutely sure that it had a white door and white 2x2 classic window (I live in The Netherlands). Later on the bricks became mixed up in a big box, but I can't remember having any grey doors (...) (24 years ago, 25-Apr-00, to lugnet.trains)
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