LEGO Historian Posted May 5, 2015 Posted May 5, 2015 (edited) WoutR, funny you should mention Sweedish GEAS sets.... I just yesterday updated my LEGO Collectors Guide Timeline for the very first LEGO brick sets, the AUTOMATIC BINDING BRICKS sets of 1949-53. This of course includes the 1950-52 Swedish (GEAS) sets that TLG licensed out to that Swedish plastics maker that today is known as GEASPLAST (of Gislaved Sweden). What had been bothering me for quite some thime were these 2 red boxes (below)... which just didn't really fit well with the above AUTOMATIC BINDING BRICKS boxes... into the LEGO timeline anywhere (too many different sets for too short a time. Yesterday I was looking at the official LEGO.com timeline for the 1950s.... and for 1950 it said this: ------------------------------------------------- 1950 Godtfred Kirk Christiansen, son of the founder, Ole Kirk Kristiansen, is appointed Junior Vice President the day he turns 30. Selected Product News 1950 Three sets containing plastic bricks aimed at Kindergartens --------------------------------------------------- That comment about 3 sets just for Kindergartens caught my eye. I think it finally explains these very old LEGO sets of circa 1949-50.... These red AUTOMATIC BINDING BRICKS boxes just never made any sense... in relation to the other early sets of this era.... I think that these are 2 of the 3 early Kindergarten AUTOMATIC BINDING BRICKS sets as mentioned in the 1950 Timeline. It perfectly explains why they're different from regular boxed sets. Also... one other thing about them caught my eye. All the Kindergarten sets of the 1960s and 1970s have a red box top... that would perfectly fit in with these earliest sets of 1950... that TLG traditionally showed the institutional sets in red. Here is a 1960s LEGO Kindergarten Set in a wooden box with sliding red top... So this kind of puts everything into perspecive about early LEGO cardboard and wooden boxes!! Now adding Educational sets to both AUTOMATIC BINDING BRICKS and EDUCATIONAL/INSTITUTIONAL chapters of my collectors guide!! Edited May 5, 2015 by LEGO Historian Quote
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