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LEGO
system i leg box (1955-58)
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This
is only a stump dealing with the evolution of the box cover image of LEGO
700/x sets of the system i leg era as a dating means to the box and
its contents. |
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TYPE
1- 1955/ 1956 |
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Used with slotted bricks- although
the slots are not really visible in the drawings inside the box top, the
LEGO man demonstrates the mounting of a window with the help of a slotted
brick (the images below are from a 1955 Danish 700/5 set- notice the second
demonstrative image counting from the left)..
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The
same image was used in the early exports. The images below are from a Dutch
700/3 set. Since the exports to Germany started marginally earlier, there
presumably must have been German sets also with a similar image. |
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TYPE
2- 1956 |
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I only have this transitional
type in a Swedish 700/3A set box and am not certain as to the countries
that used it.
There was a surplus of boxes
in at least some languages and sizes when the bricks changed to the unslotted
version. So, a new instructions sheet was printed on white paper and glued
over the old one that was adapted to the sort of windows used with slotted
bricks.
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TYPE
3- 1956/1957 |
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The
inside of the box cover is now printed with the correct instructions for
the type of windows used with unslotted bricks. The images below are from
a German 700/3A set with
a complement of slotted bricks. It is not known whether the complement is
from a different box, or else the old boxes were exhausted before the slotted
bricks. |
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With
the introduction of new boxes in 1957/58 (below) the image changed to a
colour display and ceased to have dating potential. |
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