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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Juan Blanco, post: 1584422, member: 41665&quot;]No, it doesn&#039;t. Nothing&#039;s <i>embossed</i>, nor does BrickEnvy say or imply anything of the sort. </p><p>S/he says &quot;its original display box {...}features the LEGO logo of the time that it was given out.&quot; </p><p>That old logo was <u>discontinued</u> in 1973, not &quot;1979&quot; nor &quot;1981.&quot; </p><p><br /></p><p>Once again: the Hohenwestedt factory opened in 1956. Lego Spielwaren GmbH was incorporated 12 Jan 1956. It&#039;s mathematically impossible that someone worked there &quot;25 years&quot; in 1979 - that&#039;s only 23 years! </p><p><br /></p><p>The old Lego logo from 1954 was this:</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH]219756.vB[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>and this:</p><p>[ATTACH]219758.vB[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>The &quot;dogbone logo&quot; appeared in 1955:</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH]219759.vB[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>The 1965 logo was also different:</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH]219760.vB[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p><a href="http://brickfetish.com/timeline/1956.html" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://brickfetish.com/timeline/1956.html" rel="nofollow">http://brickfetish.com/timeline/1956.html</a></p><p>&quot;Beginning in 1958 Lego began to use international <i>Lego System</i> boxes that had no language specific text. This practice of single international boxes, and later instruction books, was used for many years.&quot; And that&#039;s the old logo for your imaginary &quot;employee of 25 years&quot; until the early 1970s.</p><p><br /></p><p>fwiw: in 1957, Lego celebrated it&#039;s SILVER Jubilee and in 1982 Lego celebrated a GOLDEN Jubilee. There is no record that pricy gifts were awarded to any lifer proles in Lego factories anywhere, circa 1982. Or that old logos were resurrected for schwag mementos in PMs during the Gold Bubble, so.... dream on. </p><p><br /></p><p>This simulacrum is not Lego, it&#039;s something privately manufactured - sorry. </p><p><br /></p><p>The eBay vendor&#039;s claim is full of inconsistencies. What would you expect from a trailer-park, srsly? This one-off &quot;gold brick&quot; is <i>obviously </i>not a Lego product, corkers.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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