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Subject:	Re: wanted: 2x2 classic windows
Newsgroups:	lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade, lugnet.trains
Date:	Mon, 17 Apr 2000 15:34:28 GMT
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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 apologised that the grey door that goes next to the grey window was badly damaged and he replaced it with a red one. I have already confirmed that this set had a grey window and door with other collectors in Europe. Mark H. Reinhard \"Ben\" Beneke wrote: > In lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade, Mark Harrison writes: > > 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 that could have some. > > 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 rest > in white. > > New added white bricks have been marked as "dark white". And you have wrongly > identified these dark white window and door pieces as grey. It would have been > to good to be real. > > So 7740 is still the one and only set with grey 2x2 windows. > > Regards, > > Ben

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		Re: wanted: 2x2 classic windows
(...) 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 (...) (25 years ago, 17-Apr-00, to lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade, lugnet.trains)

		Re: wanted: 2x2 classic windows
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 (...) (25 years ago, 19-Apr-00, to lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade, lugnet.trains, lugnet.general)

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		Re: wanted: 2x2 classic windows
(...) 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 (...) (25 years ago, 16-Apr-00, to lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade, lugnet.trains)

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