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

[LegoPanda]

i have a regular smiling mini fig head with the printing a little to high from set 6022, so it looks really weird with the helmet. i also got two bionicle misprint masks from 2001

Edited November 19, 2013 by LegoPanda

[The Architect]

The head sounds cool. Ive heard a fair bit about these misprint masks but never actually seen one.

[mechamike]

I have a few correct prints on the wrong colour minfig head. A Jek-14 3626cpb1012 head in white and a light flesh head with Nick Fury print sh056 but my favorite is the olive green zombie head.. 3626bpb752. They are not ultra rare but cool.

Edited November 19, 2013 by mechamike

[The Architect]

Yes I really like the sound of the Nick Fury one...

[jonwil]

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

I think those aren't broken but molded wrong (that or they were melted at some point)

[just2good]

Wow did you feel for Mr gold or just get lucky?

I felt for him. I got him back in June of this year, and I still have him. I don't wanna sell him.

Woah the buzz is cool, and Mr Gold too? Some people have all the luck!

[iradd]

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....

nice collection you have ..

Edited November 22, 2013 by Rick
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[Merkurius]

My rarest brick is actually not a brick. It is the instructions to http://guide.lugnet.com/set/1593

[4everLego]

Once again the Historian boggles the mind!

Those are awesome trucks!

[Brandon Miller]

It's not a brivk or anything, but here's a shirt I had as a kid back in the early 80s. Hangs in my son's closet now.

[LEGO Historian]

Once again the Historian boggles the mind!

Those are awesome trucks!

Thanks 4everLego! Here's some more of those trucks... these are 1:43 LEGO Chevrolet Wagons... only sold in Denmark and Norway... The first one is an Electric Company Truck, the 2nd is a Police Paddy Wagon, the 3rd is a Milk Truck, and the 4th is an Ambulance... all date from 1953-57..... Also... for those who think I'm swimming in rare old LEGO.... sigh... that's not the case..... I'm working on a new LEGO collectors guide for the 1:43 LEGO Chevrolet trucks. No one has yet none one. That and continuing to expand my 1949-90 sets/parts collectors guide, and working on a monumental one for 1990-2014. So much work, so little time....

Edited November 23, 2013 by LEGO Historian

[Cap't black brick]

The Balloon from 5956-1: Expedition Balloon. Took me forever to find it at a reasonable price.

[brickbuilder711]

Since I got into LEGO in the late 90s, not much old stuff but more rare stuff. It's hard to determine which is THE rarest but here are come contenders, in fact the Sand Blue 2*2 round could be the one but I'll leave it open for interpretation. The ones in bold are available in no more than two sets:

• Level crossing gates from 4539
  
• Old 70s windows - Oldest on record
  
• Sand Blue 4*8 wings and 2*2 round brick (I have two, could see it on my CSX engines and it's a miracle to consider how I wound up with it in the Bonus Box)
  
• MdGreen 1*1 clips
  
• Dark blue 1*1 round plate
  
• Btgreen 1x1 minifig head. I have about four or five, you can see it in my Starbucks moc on Flickr.
  
• Sand Red 1*6 tile and 1*2 plate with clip
  

[tomdobs55]

The Balloon from 5956-1: Expedition Balloon. Took me forever to find it at a reasonable price.

It's unbelievable that that one piece is selling for roughly the same as the entire set is selling for on bricklink.

[antp]

• Dark blue 1*1 round plate
  
• Btgreen 1x1 minifig head
  

Do you have the set 4518 like I do? ( http://www.bricklink...nv.asp?S=4518-1 ) As in that set there were that kind of "random" parts (in rare colors)

Same for 4562 which included even more random parts (cf bags info on http://www.peeron.com/inv/sets/4562-1 , each set contained a random selection amongst there)

Due to these, I have many parts in strange colors not really used in sets, only found in these "bricks sets".

About old unusual parts, I have a "Slope 45 2 x 2 Double Convex / Double Concave" http://www.bricklink...gItem.asp?P=962 but it does not seem especially rare as it is cheap and common on Bricklink

Still useful anyway :) http://mocpages.com/...992/13751972334

Edited November 25, 2013 by antp

[snaillad]

I have the smooth princess Leia hair bun piece. I read somewhere it was apparently rare as it's a mismould. Not sure if anyone can confirm this. I have been using it as as any other hairpiece for MOC's not treating it with any such care!

[brickbuilder711]

Do you have the set 4518 like I do? ( http://www.bricklink...nv.asp?S=4518-1 ) As in that set there were that kind of "random" parts (in rare colors)

Same for 4562 which included even more random parts (cf bags info on http://www.peeron.com/inv/sets/4562-1 , each set contained a random selection amongst there)

Due to these, I have many parts in strange colors not really used in sets, only found in these "bricks sets".

I wish!

I was lucky enough in 2004, when I turned 10 (now 19) to exchange birthday gifts for 4679 at Toys R Us, noticing the whole thing out of dumb luck (frankly I remember my mom chose the set). This was probably one of my best decisions yet, and got me a lot of the parts seen in both of those boxes. However, I blew a second opportunity to get 4679 in 2005 as a red bucket, really wish I did so! On the other hand, it's not like many of those rare parts got used well since of course they were in low quantities, but still I'm very happy I got the box that I got.

The box even got me parts not in those two sets, the Sand Blue 2x2 rounds listed above being one of them.

I don't recall the 4518/4562 making it to the US markets.

Sadly on a related topic I saw 4400 at KB Toys once upon a time, still kicking myself for not getting it.

EDIT: Discovered from the stash, 1 1x1 tile in Sand Blue. Apparently came only in a Mini TIE fighter even though I scored it in 4679! Guess I gotta insure that piece, lol.

Edited November 26, 2013 by brickbuilder711

[antp]

I got these sets with random parts around 2007-2008 (just after my "dark age"), on Ebay, still brand new and sealed, surprisingly no-one else placed a bid :)

They should do that again, to get rid of random extra parts they have (as I guess it is why they did that...)

Edited November 26, 2013 by antp

[Lasse]

My rarest piece of LEGO is my "teddy in airplane" from the early 1950s:

http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?f=519243

My oldest piece of LEGO is my wooden rabbit, which I guess is from the late 1930s :

http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?f=509245

[LegoPanda]

The head sounds cool. Ive heard a fair bit about these misprint masks but never actually seen one.

the misprint masks arent actual that rare, but i do keep them from the others so the don't damage like some of my other masks

i also just found out that the two black falcons i have, got their coloring on the crest logo in the opposite direction ( one silver left and black right, the other black left and silver right)

[DrJB]

I recall, when bionicle first came out, some of the masks were 'defective' and not meant to be released. Some people have them, and those count as 'rare'.

[LegoPanda]

I recall, when bionicle first came out, some of the masks were 'defective' and not meant to be released. Some people have them, and those count as 'rare'.

yes, those where the misprinted masks i was talking about before

[ElCrab]

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!)

I had that set (I guess I still do), and I definitely still have the black sword.

[dhc6twinotter]

I have two threaded 10L axle and nuts. The axles came in 4 sets offered during the late '80s. Not super rare, but probably the rarest parts I have.

Edited December 11, 2013 by dhc6twinotter

[Timoonn]

maybe this on