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Duhhhhhh!!
In all my excitement, I forgot to post the website with the picture of the 352 Windmill
set with the white windows/door:
http://www.ebay.de/servlet/auctiondetaildConnector?page=eineAuktion&auktionsID=43487991
Gary Istok
Gary Istok wrote:
> 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 colors. Here is the (ambiguous) brickshelf
> instruction picture that is causing this debate:
>
> http://www.brickshelf.com/scans/0000/0352/0352-03.html
>
> Note the color changes of pieces as one row of bricks is stacked upon the next. The
> problem lies in the fact that we are only shown 1 sneak peek of the 2x2 window with
> the classic door next to it. They both show gray (I thought it was to highlight the
> addition of the window/door to the building). But we can't be sure with this. Mark
> says that he had confirmation that they are gray. I talked recently with a German
> collect who said that they were not gray (I think he said white).
>
> But anyway we need to get someone to actually say "yes it is a gray window and door,
> and I have one right here in front of me" (or better yet scan and post it).
>
> ............. wait a minute..... AH HA!!!!!!!!!!!!!
>
> I just checked German EBAY, and they have a #352 windmill for sale, and it shows the
> completed building pictures (not a catalog scan) from the back (where the windows and
> door are) as well as front. And in this example, it shows white windows/door (note
> the plates used for the sidewalk are gray). So in this example, the windows/door
> are white. This is not 100% proof, because the seller could have substituted. What
> we need is another #352 owner (or two) to confirm or deny this.
>
> Nothing would give me greater pleasure than to say YES classic gray doors do exist in
> this one and only one set. (Oh, yes the gray windows are important to, but we know
> 10 of them come in a 7740.)
>
> By the way, another very rare piece in the 7740 are the low sloped yellow corner
> bricks, which also are only found in this set (only 4). I won 18 of these on EBAY
> last year (pricey!!).
>
> Maybe with LEGO Direct we will one day be able to purchase a large quantity of these
> 2x2 gray windows as well as the low sloped yellow corners. Maybe between Lar, the
> train folks, other AFOLs, and myself, we should be able to get a production run of
> both of these items.
>
> Gary Istok
>
> Mark Harrison wrote:
>
> > 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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