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Whats the rarest/oldest piece of Lego you have in your collections?

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I think for once I may have posted this in the right area. :blush:

Mine is a Black Knights Shield from 1988.

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I have a couple of 2 x 2 round tiles in trans-clear. They have never appeared in any set (although they are not exactly all that rare on BrickLink) but they are probably one of the rarest parts I own (its the only one I can think of that I own that isn't in any set)

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Hmmm sounds rare to me. I've been extremely lucky this year as one of my friends gave me a large amount of old Lego pieces including a few wolfpack renegades from quite a while back.

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Oh joy. Post 100! I'm a real boy!

I don't know about rarest, but I know some pieces that I've found that have made me happiest when I got them, scraped from the bottom of some weird bucket found secondhand from golly-knows-where. I am sure I have some "rarer" things - (I have some misprinted minifig heads)

When I was a kid I got a couple of the Old Castle Armor Shops (1986 http://brickset.com/detail/?set=6041-1) - and the minifig sword (it was black and I believe only came in this set) became the most deadly of weapons in my Lego World. I'm happy to say I have a few of these black swords now (Though I don't necessarily know where they are! a quest!)

Also the matching pair of these Space Screens - (Decorated 1x6x5 Bricks with Vintage Space Scenes)

http://www.bricklink.com/catalogItem.asp?P=3754p01

http://www.bricklink.com/catalogItem.asp?P=3754pb01

I think what I feel is most special to me, now that I have a toddler-child, is that I have all the pieces to this Fabuland set, including the Fridge and all its food tiles - she loves playing with this...

http://brickset.com/detail/?Set=3646-1 - Catherine Cat in her Kitchen.

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Nice wooden LEGO truck Modulex Guy!! Those are becoming very collectible and oh so valuable....

Wooden toys were made by TLG from the very beginning in 1932, until Feb. 4 1960, when the wooden toy LEGO factory/warehouse burned down, and TLG decided not to rebuild it, but stick to LEGO plastic toys.

Here's an example of a LEGO wooden Tanker Truck, a plastic LEGO Esso Tanker Truck in 1:43 scale (early versions had tankers of wood, later versions had tankers of plastic), and a 1:87 LEGO Esso Tanker Truck. Wooden toys were 1932-60, 1:43 plastic trucks were 1953-57, and 1:87plastic vehicles were 1955-70...

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No one has yet written a collectors guide on LEGO wooden toys, and no one yet has written a collectors guide on the 1:43 plastic trucks as of yet... but I am almost done with a guide for that short production scale... just not sure if I'm going to make it separate from my Unofficial LEGO Sets/Parts Collectors Guide, or include it as a chapter.

Here's a 1953-57 1:43 BP Barrel Truck with Propane tanks made of wood... with the (very rare) box it came in it....

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Mine's probably the trans-neon green chainsaw blade if you go by number of Bricklink listings. I don't have any kits pre 1994 so I can't go back too far. I'd love to add one of the old vehicles though!

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My 6382 Fire Station came with these extra pieces when I bought the set in the early 1980s. They're my oldest odd pieces.

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My 6382 Fire Station came with these extra pieces when I bought the set in the early 1980s. They're my oldest odd pieces.

*snip*

Those just look like random broken pieces, or am I missing something?

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I have one of the trailers pictured below. No idea where the truck is or if I ever had it. I also have all of my sets from the 80s to mid 90s although most of those are not rare.

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I have a truck very similar to the one posted above, but it is a Mercedes one, at least it has a Mercedes logo on the front from what I can discern. I like the barrel truck posted above as well.

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I have a single white wing piece that is 4x8 and has a rounded corner (3x3 studs) area. The bottom has square holes, only located directly opposite to the studs; there are no center holes like you'll find in normal plates these days. I have no idea where this piece comes from and could not find it in the brickset database.

I also have a large yellow 21-tooth gear that is 8 studs in diameter, and some printed parts from an old space-themed set, including something that resembles a large tv-screen with a rocket about to be launched to the moon. That space-set is almost complete but i did some nasty things to the base-plates when I was in my early teens and the minifigures are not in very good shape either, unfortunately.

[edit]yes i am that old haha[/edit]

Edited by schermvlieger

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That must be the 'Yellow Castle' for me, so the most unique pieces of that I think are the visors for the knights

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I have a single white wing piece that is 4x8 and has a rounded corner (3x3 studs) area. The bottom has square holes, only located directly opposite to the studs; there are no center holes like you'll find in normal plates these days. I have no idea where this piece comes from and could not find it in the brickset database.

It seems like you have this, or maybe this! Those are SUPER old-skool.

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I have a lot of ordinary bricks (Mostly red and white.) bought for me from around 1970 onwards. I have a couple of 4.5V train motors that have stickers on them (When you open the case.) saying they were made in 1967, which makes them a year older than me. I don't know if I have any really rare stuff, but I have a lot of LEGO both just bricks and sets from the 1970's through to around 1996'ish.

I do still have the baseplate for a really old ferry boat that the ends opened up on and you could run your train inside. I had endless fun with this as a child, but as I got older I kind of lost a bit of interest when I noticed there was not anywhere to put the crew/passengers as although it had windows around the top there was no floor or anything above the train holding section making it rather unrealistic. I note on Brick Link a couple of those base plates selling for around £40.00 which seems ridiculous to me! I suppose that maybe rare, I am not sure?

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It seems like you have this, or maybe this! Those are SUPER old-skool.

Yes it is one of these; the second one.Thanks for finding it! I whish i had the other one as well to make a proper airplane with it :-)

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I have lots of misprinted pieces, but by far my favorite is really rare (I haven't seen one like it before) and extremely useful. I have an angry-face Buzz with no dirt printing.

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For my rarest non-misprint pieces, well... I do own a Mr. Gold. So all of his pieces. :grin:

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