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In lugnet.loc.au, Kerry Raymond writes:
> > not using the Internet ,his choice of lego dealer would have been
> > limited,and bulk parts ,or supplementary kits even harder to find (Sydney
> > depot,second hand!),for at least until the 80s (was lego not so popular b4
> > this?)
>
> I can't speak for Steak-n-Kidney but Lego was readily obtainable in Brisbane in
> the 1960s, and back in the those days most sets were just "bulk parts"; very
> few sets had a model with instructions as I recall. Indeed, I remember how
> thrilled I was to get my first pack of roof slopes, and my pack of flags of the
> world and my pack of trees. I can only recall getting a model set, and that
> would have been around 1969/70. My Dark Ages commenced soon after so I can't
> speak with much authority about Lego in the 1970s.
There was *a lot* of LEGO available in the 70's, and, IIRC it was all
available in Australia, except for one or two train sets.
> Of course, the guy could have a mate overseas who was shipping stuff out to
> him. Or he could have been buying it by post from overseas (hey, we did have
> communication before the Internet :-)) And maybe the guy lived in or travelled
> through other parts of the world himself.
>
> > If he had bought one box of every set from way back then up until say 1997 ,
> > would that come close to $90,000 ?
>
> I would think so. And I can't see any reason why he wouldn't have bought
> multiple sets, just as many of us do today.
Agreed. And when trains are involved, multiple sets seem to become almost
compulsory.
> And, of course, if his love of Lego
> was considered a great joke among his family and friends, what's the betting he
> got gifts of Lego too from people? Again, who among us hasn't been given Lego,
> even as an adult?
Hmmmm... my Wedding Anniversary is tomorrow, so I've got my fingers crossed
for some LEGO...
> Of course, the problem is that we really don't know if the claim of $90K
> represents the prices actually paid, or simply what he thinks the collection
> would be worth in today's terms, or what someone has offered him for it, or
> whatever.
From the brochure, it seems almost certainly to be a valuation ..."The LEGO
collection, worth about $90,000, includes almost all models produced by
LEGO, with some made as early as 1959." (quoted from Ben's post).
Particularly at valuation, that $90K is very believable to me.
Cheers
Richie
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