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Re: Kiddicraft by Hilary Page 1947
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Date: 
Thu, 24 Aug 2006 07:32:12 GMT
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On 24/08/06, Nathan Proudlove <nathanberry@load.com> wrote:
I have recently come into possesion of a set of Kiddicraft self-locking building
bricks.  It is complete and the box is intact, though the cardboard is in rough
shape.  Not surprising really, considering that this set predates the first Lego
brick by two years.  You heard right my friends, this is the original British
toy that "inspired" Ole Kirk Kristiansen to come out with the automatic binding
brick two years later. If there are any potential buyers out there of such an
interesting piece of Lego history, I would love to know.  I will post pics soon.

Nathan

For those who are interested, Pics of the toy can be seen here:
http://www.personal.u-net.com/~lilleker/con-lego.htm

There is also a history of the Lego bricks themselves there.

Danny
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Danny Staple MBCS
OrionRobots
http://orionrobots.co.uk/blogs/dannystaple
(Full contact details available through website)



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  Re: Kiddicraft by Hilary Page 1947
 
Yes, as we can see Kiddicraft was the pre-cursor to the Lego brick. Back in 1949-50 they had only 5 colors of Lego bricks, red, white, yellow, light green, and what can best be described as "peacock blue". By 1950 TLG was releasing to their Danish (...) (18 years ago, 24-Aug-06, to lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade, lugnet.off-topic.clone-brands)

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  Kiddicraft by Hilary Page 1947
 
I have recently come into possesion of a set of Kiddicraft self-locking building bricks. It is complete and the box is intact, though the cardboard is in rough shape. Not surprising really, considering that this set predates the first Lego brick by (...) (18 years ago, 24-Aug-06, to lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade)

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