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| | | Author: | peter_heyden  | | Posted: | Dec 13, 2014 05:30 | | Subject: | Inventory Change Request for Set 653-1 | | Viewed: | 34 times | | Topic: | Inventories Requests (Entry) | | Status: | Open | |
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| Please make changes to the following inventory:
* Add 1 Part 3010pb036s White Brick 1 x 4 with Car Grille Black Pattern (Surface Print) (Alternate) (match ID 1)
* Change 1 Part White 3010pb036e Brick 1 x 4 with Car Grille Black Pattern (Embossed Print) {match ID 0 to 1}
Comments from Submitter:
I have 39 sets from that era, originally bought new as I was a child. These sets were never mixed up with newer Lego, only among themselves. All 6 sets having the black printed grille, have the surface print version and I had no embossed black printed grilles. Did these acutally exist? Or was there a difference in US/EUR sets? All my sets were bought in the Netherlands.
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| | | | | Author: | viejos | | Posted: | Dec 25, 2014 01:02 | | Subject: | Re: Inventory Change Request for Set 653-1 | | Viewed: | 59 times | | Topic: | Inventories Requests | |
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| In Inventories Requests, peter_heyden writes:
| | Please make changes to the following inventory:
* Add 1 Part 3010pb036s White Brick 1 x 4 with Car Grille Black Pattern (Surface Print) (Alternate) (match ID 1)
* Change 1 Part White 3010pb036e Brick 1 x 4 with Car Grille Black Pattern (Embossed Print) {match ID 0 to 1}
Comments from Submitter:
I have 39 sets from that era, originally bought new as I was a child. These sets were never mixed up with newer Lego, only among themselves. All 6 sets having the black printed grille, have the surface print version and I had no embossed black printed grilles. Did these acutally exist? Or was there a difference in US/EUR sets? All my sets were bought in the Netherlands.
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I've gone ahead and approved the changes for this set and the other 4 sets
with related requests:
I did manage to find one of the embossed type grilles in my loose parts collection.
It's a bit beaten up, but you can still see the edges where the stamp pressed
into the plastic (see the the thin outer line in the attached image).
We have fairly certain proof that the embossed type did come in sets from the
early seventies from the change log for the Town Center inventory:
http://www.bricklink.com/catalogInvChangeItem.asp?itemType=S&itemNo=355-1&viewDate=Y&viewStatus=1
The history of this part, though, is difficult to trace, because we find similar
embossed parts turning up much later as well:
Which leads me to believe the surface printing type was perhaps a product only
of the mid-seventies. Or it could be a market issue, like you suggest. Regional
offices (such as Enfield) may have continued to use embossed stock well after
it had been exhausted in Europe.
Russell
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Netherlands, Noord-Brabant
USA, California
