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Identifying Vintage LEGO Instructions
These are instructions from "LEGO Books - Idea Book #1 or 221", that was released in 1973.
YouTuber BrickTsar uploaded his entire childhood book HERE.
Similar to the LEGO Idea books I had as a kid ...
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Please help identify this vintage (but non-Lego) brick!
That is a Kawada Dia Block made in Japan. Entex and Sears imported those into the US in the 70’s and 80’s and repackaged them under such brands as Loc Bloc and Brix Blox. The “S” is actually a K on ...
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Which set had these LEGO cars with Pat. Pend.?
These are Train Base 4 x 7 with Wheels Holder
with Train Wheel with 2 x 2 Stud Center, Traction Teeth
and Turntable 4 x 4 Complete, Perfectly Round
They were found in two sets from 1966:
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Old RCX Wires Have Become Grey and Brittle
This is a common issue with the older Lego 9V cables. Lots of sources, including myself, have experienced the same thing - this particular chemistry of insulation ages poorly, no matter how well it's ...
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Please help identify this vintage (but non-Lego) brick!
I have solved the mystery. After searching up many different vintage plastic bricks (I had no idea there were so many), I stumbled upon LOC BLOC, made in the USA in the 1970's by a company called ...
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Trying to identify an old 2 x 7 white LEGO plate with a hole in the middle and 4 holes on the side
This is
Part# 824 : Train Base 4 x 7 with Wheels Holder
It appears in 2 train sets from 1966
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Can you identify these 2 retro bricks? A red piece with notch and steps, and a green circle
1st is a train part, Plate, Modified 1 x 2 with Steam Engine Cylinder, Round Surfaces, Interior Grooves
2nd is Fabuland Trash Can Lid 5 x 5
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What are these magnetic LEGO-like bricks?
According to this article these are called "Bombo Magnet".
Bombo Magnet-1963.
Bricks made of a metal plate with studs, a magnet, and its plastic cover. The plastic "grid" on the ...
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Rare Lego Mursten box. Where can I sell it and what would I ask?
Your box is a 700/1 Swedish box (a 700/2 doesn't have that much blue space above and below the image). Value depends on what is inside as well: the bricks/windows/doors, as well as if the interior ...
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Totally stumped! Part ID - unusual crane part?
This is Vehicle, Tractor Chassis Base 11 x 2 x 3
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How do I know if this wooden LEGO duck is real?
Every Lego wooden duck I have seen, whether in person or on the internet, is sitting on a platform with the wheels attached to the platform. This is the original version:
Here is a later version:
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What did LEGO bricks look like in the past?
The earliest LEGO bricks were made in 1949, and they had completely empty undersides with vertical notches in two of their sides for attaching windows, doors and decorative cardboard inserts:
Then in ...
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Which LEGO set bricks with words Basel, Genova, Hamburg, Post belong to?
Those pieces were in one set: 113-2 from 1966.
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Need help with a vintage LEGO set
It seems like this is some variation of #700 set from Town Plan (Bricklink / Brickset). I don't know too much about them, but I read somewhere there were some differences between same numbered sets ...
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Identifying this turbine piece with a stud and a Technic axel
It's part 4869 - Engine, Smooth Large, Center.
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Can you identify this old set with LEGOLAND minifigs?
It is one box from 364-1: Harbour Scene from 1975:
Here's what the particular box looked like in newer condition:
And here's the set freshly opened with your box slotted into its place. Your box is ...
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Will the Duplo train track extension set 10872 work with Duplo train set 2700?
From a train point of view those wheels will fit happily within the guides of the bridge, and the connections on the tracks should just about fit as well.
I'm fairly sure we bought our bridge when we ...
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Does anyone know what is this LEGO Mursten set?
It's apparently LEGO Mursten 700/6 Gift Package, specifically the first variant from 1953-1954.
Early versions of this set from 1953 through 1954 had only automatic binding bricks type windows and ...
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Rare Lego Mursten box. Where can I sell it and what would I ask?
As Syberion mentioned, Gary Isztok is the authority on old LEGO sets. Mursten (Bricks in most Scandinavian languages) is the old name for the LEGO line (after Automatic Binding Bricks but before LEGO ...
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How to build bridge using 4.5/12v train rails from 1969 Lego brochure
Thanks for your help with this construction. I have made a faithful copy of this 1968 catalog bridge, pics:-
Also a list of components.
Hope that's helpful. I have a 12 image photo diary of the ...
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Why are pat pending bricks rarer and treasured more than patented bricks?
As I understand it, "Pat. Pend." bricks were made in the 1960's.
Later around 1970 they removed "Pat. Pend." by carving it out of the molds, so there is a lump in place of it. These are sometimes ...
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Why are these bricks slightly shorter than normal?
For starters, having that as a production error is completely impossible, given the industrial precision of our beloved bricks. The LEGO group has been incredibly careful for decades about the ...
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Looking for older conducting train tracks
Such place indeed exist and it is called Bricklink, a website dedicated to trading LEGO items. It has extensive history and great catalog of LEGO items found on the internet. Prices and quality are, ...
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Was "3062oldtile" in any sets?
This seems to be a prototype / part that was not put in production
Post / Picture by Gary Istok on Eurobricks
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Identify parts number - two sides and top of a square (one solid piece)
This is part # 821
Garage Door Frame
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I have a vintage set box with the kids on it. Should I continue collecting era appropriate pieces to refill it?
Given the quality of LEGO bricks, I would argue that an original box filled with the correct amount of the correct bricks from the same time period as the box is INDISTINGUISHABLE from an opened box ...
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Why are pat pending bricks rarer and treasured more than patented bricks?
They are rarer because fewer exists, they were made a long time ago, and LEGO has procuded many more elements since.
They are treasured by some because some collectors value having accurate bricks in ...
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Need help with a vintage LEGO set
[I'm going with Alex's identification here of set 700.1-2 "Gift Package".]
This is a very vintage set in LEGO land. Twice as many people want it on brickset as have it. There aren't many ...
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Why are pat pending bricks rarer and treasured more than patented bricks?
If you're selling an old set, you naturally want it to be made of old bricks. How would you like to buy a 1960's set, paying a vintage price, only to find that its bricks are 2010 vintage? Such a ...
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