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| (...) Additionally, cigarettes and tobacco advertising boards were frequently used by shops that sold newspapers, lottery tickets, stationary, etc, too. The most prominent advertising feature of the shop where I bought my Mickey Mouse magazine was (...) (21 years ago, 28-Jun-05, to lugnet.parts, lugnet.general)
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| (...) I almost forgot, there was one set that did have Tobacconist in it. That was the #210/#1210 Small Shop sets of 1955-65. These were available with multiple names on the named beams. The example in the Lugnet database is a German one, which was (...) (21 years ago, 28-Jun-05, to lugnet.parts, lugnet.general)
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| (...) Tim, These tobacco signs were produced from 1955-65. But only in continental Europe. First of all the negative connotation to smoking did not exist in the 1950's and 1960's. And in continental Europe there were a lot of small mom and pop (...) (21 years ago, 28-Jun-05, to lugnet.parts, lugnet.general)
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| looking at Clarks printed bars pages (URL) I notice that there seem to loads of tobacconist's signs in various languages. Does anyone know what sets these came in? seems strange for Lego to have them, I know they are old but even so. Tim (21 years ago, 26-Jun-05, to lugnet.parts)
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| (...) It won't offer any support since the filling is not bonded to (or "integrated into") the gear body - they would just fly out when the gear cracks. (...) Which brings a question: Why use Lego in a rig with wood or aluminum? Is it a Lego MOC (...) (21 years ago, 23-Jun-05, to lugnet.parts.custom, lugnet.parts.mod, lugnet.technic)
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