Collector245

Unfortunately it looks like this is not a Lego box, but just a storage box. Often when you find these old bricks they are in old storage boxes of this kind.

Well, the set was thought to be a catalog error a few years ago because no examples had yet been found. A friend of mine (you may know him on this forum as LegoHistorian) had contacts with the archive folks in Billund. I would guess he probably asked them about it during their conversations. He is the one I got that bit of information from.

The rarest set I own would be the 1237 1/2 esso service station set from 1956. Sold only in Norway and Sweden. Only 2 examples of this set known (mine included). Lego themselves do not even have this set in their archives!

Very nice 1958/59 700/3a set (left) and 700/5 (right). You have kept them in very nice condition for all these years!

Hello! Do you have any idea of what sets are in this collection? If you sort it into sets you will be able to get a lot more for it.

That sounds good! :)

@gryphus Most of the items in your picture are Lego. The bikes that are not circled and the police men are Lego. The police men would have come in set 1271 or 271 and the bikes would have come in set 1270 or 270. The bikes that you circled are not Lego and the gas pumps you circled are not Lego.

Cool! If you need help finding the value and rarity of the 50's bricks you found, I might be able to help.

The brick you are asking about is from the 1950s. It would have come in a small parts pack of named beams (set 1224). This brick is quite rare! Nice find!

That would make sense. I have also had 1x1 plates crack. I assume that is because if the same reason @dr_spock mentioned.

@MAB You rarely see them crack unless you look. Loosing clutch power is a result of cracking. The bricks you have that loose clutch power may be cracked.

@RoddyMac I have experienced it most with the color tan. What colors have you heard are more prone to it?

I have recently noticed a problem with 1x1 bricks. They tend to crack and loose clutch power! Even if they have only been used once! Has anybody else experienced this problem or a problem like this? I am curious to know!

@LuxorV Thanks for the help!

I was wondering how to create a signature. I can not find any topics on it. Any help is appreciated. Thanks!

I think I would pick the 60182.

Sorry to bump this topic but I have done more research on the topic and I have found a way to tell the 1948 version and the 1998 version apart. In the last post I mentioned that you can see a stamp from the printing company in the bottom of some klodser sets and not others. While looking at some photos of klodser sets I noticed that most of the perfect condition klodser sets did not have this stamp. It also makes sense that way back when the original sets were produced, LEGO would probably have used a different printing company to print their paperwork (this theory can be proved by looking at old LEGO catalogs which will have a marking of where it was printed.). Then if you think about it, in 1998 LEGO was a big enough company that they would have probably started to print their own paperwork. If you go to the link in my first post you can see a photo marked 1998 version, you will not see a stamp from the printing company but if you scroll down to the other photos you can see a small mark near the bottom of the instructions. Well, I have probably bored you with this lengthy explanation but I think it is important to share this because many sellers will sell there block set as the 1948 version and I want to make sure that there is a way to tell the two apart for people that may want to buy one in the future.

I will not be of much help to you then as I work with much older sets. I bet that many other members will though.

Hi, What years were the sets produced with ideas on the back of the box. I know they did that for a long time but I was wondering which years you wanted in particular.

@pooda You are always coming up with so many great ideas for city that I would never even think of! For example the driving school and the recycling center. I would love to see those be sets one day.

Goodbye @pooda! I will miss hearing your good ideas for the city theme!

Can't wait to see it!

Looks cool! Maybe you should consider adding places for people to sit while eating.

I am not sure that there is an inventory anywhere. Since it was a glued model it was never available to the general public. Hopefully @LEGO Historian can post here. He is the one who wrote the guide so he is definitely the best one to ask.

Thank you @Toastie for pointing that out. I must have missed it when I read the first post. @ToyInTheAttic You have a retailer display model. These were used in stores to help promote Lego products. I do not know too much about these but I know that @LEGO Historian knows a good amount about vintage Lego like this. He even wrote a whole collectors guide. Hopefully he can contribute and give you more detail about just what you have.