LEGO Educational Sets....

[LEGO Historian]

LEGO has been selling educational sets since about 1960...

The earliest were wooden box sets 700K, sold in Germany, Belgium and Switzlerland... and sets 750 and 7100 sold in USA and Canada in the early 1960s....

7100 USA/Canada Set... (3,235 pieces!!!)... was the largest LEGO set ever produced in the 20th Century...

This 7100 set came with vast quantities of parts and Town Plan accessories, in numbers far more than any other set. This set is a real bonanza of rare parts!

In 1965 for the first time TLG produced some Educational sets under the name TERAPI... with sets with strange set numbers... TERAPI I, TERAPI II and TERAPI III.

These TERAPI sets were only sold in Denmark and Norway starting in 1964, and in Finland starting in 1966... here are TLG Billund Archive images showing the set listings for Denmark, Norway and Finland... for some reason these educational TERAPI sets were not sold in Sweden.

Denmark late 1964 (first mention of TERAPI sets)...

Denmark 1965...

Norway 1965....

Finland 1966 (box not shown)....

These boxes were mainly used by schools in these countries, and additional continental countries in the 1970s. These have very rarely survived... and I know of no intact TERAPI sets. With the TERAPI wooden boxes, I know of only these two rare examples (from Jan Katanek and Thomas Rosner of Germany) but both are missing the red Masonite (Hartfaserplatte) lid with a hole to pull the top off....

Then in 1969 Duplo was introduced, and in 1972-73 the first Duplo Educational sets were introduced with the old LEGO logo (open "O" in the logo)....

...and some Duplo sets were included in the TERAPI/EDUCATIONAL sets in the 1970s.

The LEGO/DUPLO Educational sets were... number 90 (empty wooden box), 91 (wooden box filled with LEGO and DUPLO), 92 (filled with LEGO) and 93 (filled with LEGO) boxs

There were also red cardboard boxes... 94, 95, 96 as cardboard box refills of LEGO... there were also Duplo refill cardboard boxes 507 and 508.... All the 94, 95, 96 and 507/508 had the same box designs on one side.

These Educational/Duplo sets became ever more complex... but that's what my Unofficial LEGO Sets/Parts Collectors Guide on DVD/download has nearly 3000 page!!

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Edited August 5, 2013 by LEGO Historian

[LEGO Historian]

One educational set that has never been found on the secondary market (so far)... is the USA/Canada 750 set of circa 1963-66. This is the smaller companion to the larger 7100 set of that era (shown at the top of this thread).

The list price of the larger 7100 set was $100, while the smaller 750 set was $50 (more in Canada). This was a lot of money for a set in the 1960s, although these were institutional sets.

This image is from a Canadian LEGO promotional brochure... and we are very fortunate to have at least this image. Neither the 750 nor the larger 7100 USA/Canada Samsonite Educational sets are found in the Billund Vault, and the archives have nothing to say on the subject...

It is only thru a 1965 Samsonite LEGO retailer reorder form that we are aware of the set number and price. This order form is one of many very rare Retailer LEGO forms and catalog images that I've collected over the years, and include them in one of the 73 chapters of my LEGO DVD/download.

Edited August 4, 2013 by LEGO Historian