I recently won an Ebay auction for what was listed as a KRAFT mail in set.
I have a couple of things that I need help clearing up.
The set came with this Idea Form 8007

Opposite Side

Also Form 8006

and the box also has the 61598 stamp on it.


I did not try to mark out the address.
Parts in the box

So my question is, is this really set 159? If not which set is it?
If my research is correct the stamp on the box indicates a KRAFT set, drop the 6 and the 8 and you are left with the set number. 8 indicates Kraft? Which goes along with the front return address on the box.
This also makes me believe that the 159 sheet belongs with the box. The 8006 order form would also be a Standard KRAFT item.
I can not find a reference to a set 159, I know that Life cereal also did mail in promotion, and I believe that one of them had a piece count of 159. Same set? Different promotional offer?
The parts also has blue and yellow bricks which Samsonite quit putting in the sets towards the end. BUT the post mark is 1972 so clearly at the very end of Samsonite LEGO in the US.
@Istokg @LusiferSam any ideas or help?
Thanks!
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I think I counted 162 parts. @LusiferSam the back of the 8006 is the standard images of the KRAFT sets.
With the set being open the piece count is always in question. I feel that Samsonite was not very systematic in their numbering scheme. Thanks for your input on this set.
You probably should have looked on the backside of the 8006 Kraft brochure that mentions 8 of 10 of the sets..... that contains your answer....
You have listed set #7, where it mentions 159 parts. And some of the buildable models in your 2 sided tall No. 159 brochures are shown in this back side of the 8006 sets brochure for set #7. This set/brochure dates to 1970-71
But many of these USA/Canada Samsonite LEGO 1965-73 era promotional sets (I have an entire chapter on promotional sets in my 2800 page Unofficial LEGO Sets/Parts Collectors Guide)... and the set numbers listed in the 8006 catalog vs. what is on the outer shipping box vs. what is on the instructions/model page, is a confusing muddle to be sure... but the part count often (but not always) can be matched up.
Just look at the #4 and #5 sets listed on the left side of the image. There is nothing to even help you guess that Set #4 comes with a #271 instructions number...
And the #5 set is the mysterious Airport Set #367 (only known source for this mysterious set)....
I have never seen the plain brown outer shipping box for these 2 sets, but I would bet that they would list '62718' and '63678'... where the "6" is the prefix number, and "8" is a suffix number... both of which are internal numbers used by Samsonite.
I have a copy of your Unofficial LEGO Sets/Parts Collectors Guide, and I originally looked at chapter 17.1 and found the # 2 Life Cereal Stater Set which I assumed is likely the same set? Part count being the same and many of the models being the same.
I never found form 8006 or 8007 in my copy of your book, which chapter was that? I now wish I had paid more attention to the copy of 8006 I have. To be fair it was not until I scanned it and blew it up that I could even see the models on the brochure clearly.
Is the current version of your book on sale at weebly, newer then my 2014 copy?
Thanks again for clearing this up for me.
the updates for free (I keep everyone in my email Address Book with a flag set, so when it's ready, I will Email download instructions, like before.
I already have over 200 additional promotional sets added for the new version (including 106 Kabaya Sweets Japanese confection sets).
Time for bed, but check in tomorrow, I will have some other old promotional sets with a cryptic brochure (such as 8006) and cardboard shipping boxes that you have do detective work to figure out what it is.
P.S. I am trying to add the promotional brochures for most of the promotional sets.. especially Kraft, Life, Oxydol, Del Monte, Weetabix, and more. I'll post some tomorrow. So now there will be 4 different Kraft brochures (including 8006) in the guide. ;-)
Here is an example... the 1966 USA Oxydol Detergent LEGO set, which was a free item sealed in a plastic bag in the detergent box. This set never did have any set number, or contents count (not listed).....
When you look in the 2235 brochure that comes with this detergent freebie, this is what you see...
The images on the right side are the Oxydol sampler set models you can build using this small plastic bag of parts. The sets listed in the middle section are the regular Samsonite LEGO sets sold at retailers in 1966-67. Most (but not all) of these sets had the set number = the parts count.
Also included in this small plastic bag of bricks is this image of some of the freebie Oxydol bag of parts, and an offer for a LEGO Discovery set....
Well ironically the Discovery Set is actually a 1966 FAO Schwarz "005 Discovery Set" exclusive, which really wasn't all that exclusive, since they took a 001 "Gear Set" (43 pieces) and a "285 Basic Set" (285 pieces, but together totaled 328 pieces)... and sold it at FAO Schwarz retailers as seen here....
FAO Schwarz was a luxury toy store... and only sold colorful boxes. When Samsonite put together limited numbers of these 005 sets for FAO Schwarz, they used a Samsonite LEGO 001 Gear set, and a LEGO 285 Basic Set (only the inner trays), and created a double tray outer 005 box.
But for the Oxydol mail-order special "Discovery Set", Samsonite took the same 2 inner boxes (from 001 and 285 sets).... and packed them in this box...
This again shows how totally confusing these brown box sets are. My Unofficial LEGO Sets/Parts Collectors Guide chapters on LEGO promotional sets and Department Store Catalog Mail-Order sets takes a lot of the mystery and confusion out of these quirky USA/Canada sets. Europe/Australia/Asia did not have these "brown box" sets. The next version of my guide (free to current owners) has even more of these mysterious sets.
Also... here are the 001 and 285 Samsonite LEGO sets (found in the FAO Schwartz deluxe and Oxydol promotional "Discovery Set)... but with their separate outer sleeve included....
The early years of LEGO.... "LEGO Mayhem"! ;-)
(Hope I’m allowed to post this here. Borrowed from another user’s post.)
There is a 3rd LEGO set numbered 159, which recently got added to my Unofficial LEGO Sets/Parts Collectors Guide.
This set 159 is a blue track era set, but it is not the #159 Straight Track with Crossing Set.
It is a set that comes with a large amount of blue tracks, and could build 4 specific layouts. This 159 set was sold for a very limited time from 1968-69 in a select few continental European countries. This set is considered very rare....
There are enough track parts to build any of these 4 layouts...