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Re: The very first Lego Train set 111 in cellophane seeks collector
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lugnet.trains
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Fri, 25 Apr 2003 17:38:20 GMT
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> > Secondly, I'd expect it to have shelfwaer and so...
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> This set has its original shelfwear. Maybe I must "sharpen" my english..
> Isn't cellophane the same word as shelfware in US ?
> Anyway. The first Lego sets often had cellophane/shelfware on the inner box,
> where the brics were. Nowdays you can often lift/flip the cover to see (and
> be tempted). In old days you instead could slide the outher box to the
> side, and look "inside" trough the cellophane/shelfwaer.
> My #111 has its cellophane/shelfware (on the inner box) as originally!
> The outher box looks old, but nobody has ever touched the bricks behind the
> sealing ;-)
I assume shelfWARE could very well be cellophane or other packaging intended
for use of storing items on a shelf, but shelfWEAR is dents, nicks,
scratches, marks, etc. on the box from being on the shelf...
-Rob
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