LEGO Display Model Catalogs

[LEGO Historian]

Back in the early days of LEGO (1950s, 1960s, 1970s)...TLG produced a lot of glued display models for retailers in Europe. TLG would provide retailers a catalog of models that came out each year for retailers to purchase for their display windows.

One of the more popular of these catalogs was the 1959-60 "Blue" Retailer Display Catalog... as seen here...

http://www.redshift.com/~shifflett/lego/blue_form/blue_form-Pages/Image0.html

http://www.redshift.com/~shifflett/lego/blue_form/blue_form-Pages/Image1.html

http://www.redshift.com/~shifflett/lego/blue_form/blue_form-Pages/Image2.html

http://www.redshift.com/~shifflett/lego/blue_form/blue_form-Pages/Image3.html

http://www.redshift.com/~shifflett/lego/blue_form/blue_form-Pages/Image4.html

http://www.redshift.com/~shifflett/lego/blue_form/blue_form-Pages/Image5.html

Here is an image of one of the other display items... a masonite 1960 Town Plan Board with all the models and cars/accessories glued onto the board (some of the buildings actually have screws bolting the building down to the board)....

Another display item from1961 is this Cotswold Cottage model house....

Another item from a 1958 display catalog is this image of a Dutch strip mall...

These display items are usually small and can be held by hand... but TLG also produced traveling exhibition display items that were much larger, such as this British LEGO Ltd. LEGO copy of the front of Englan's York Minster Cathedral....

All of these items are from my Unofficial Sets/Parts Collectors Guide DVD/download still available in Eurobricks Bazaar!