Hi, Any vintage HP fans or factory seal experts in the house?
I have this sealed HP set released 2004 but I've can't remember seeing
seals like this before with barcode style line detailing. All other sealed boxes
of this set I've seen have the more standard seals with factory code on.
Has anyone seen this style before and knows them to be genuine? And possibly
know if it was just one factory/country that manufactured them like this?
Hi, Any vintage HP fans or factory seal experts in the house?
I have this sealed HP set released 2004 but I've can't remember seeing
seals like this before with barcode style line detailing. All other sealed boxes
of this set I've seen have the more standard seals with factory code on.
Has anyone seen this style before and knows them to be genuine? And possibly
know if it was just one factory/country that manufactured them like this?
Thank you in advance, Rob.
Short of it physically being in front of me and only going by the photo.....That
is a genuine seal, the same seal you show there on HP was also used on the Star
Wars sets.
It was an arrow and the seal went thin/thick/thin/thin/thick thick.
I just went downstairs to my personal collection and compared seals to other
items of that era. The seal you describe in that year period I only found on
HP & SW. I found an circular shaped seal on others without any markings. Like
a transparent dot.
Around 2008-2011 you started to see sets with a seal that looked like a piece
of tape and where the box would open a thick black solid stripe maybe 1/4 thich.It
had a batch lot number, and that number was always on the flat part of the box
and never the flappy bit.
The batch lot number was made up in this way first 1-2 numbers was the month
of the year, followed by the manufacturing plant. That was as you alluded to
where the set/seals originated.
When Lego was rebirthing itself after prolonged financial distress it began obtain
various data one piece of data was the amount of seals used as that represented
output. The actual reason for that specific design with batch lots is long and
complicated and not for this thread.
What you showed me appears to be genuine to me, again I did go and compare your
photo to several 20 year old sets and still felt confident you photo was genuine.
I am not expert on seals, but I do know a bit more about random things in lego
than I let on.
Steve.
P.s not sorry for the typos or spell checking or lack of. its 2am and I need
a lot of beauty sleep.
Hi, Any vintage HP fans or factory seal experts in the house?
I have this sealed HP set released 2004 but I've can't remember seeing
seals like this before with barcode style line detailing. All other sealed boxes
of this set I've seen have the more standard seals with factory code on.
Has anyone seen this style before and knows them to be genuine? And possibly
know if it was just one factory/country that manufactured them like this?
ohhh ScubaSteve - you da man! Thank you for confirming. I was just doubting myself
and also with this set oddly the box style is different 'for this set'
from any others 'of this set' anywhere I've seen which added fuel
to my doubt.
So thank you very much for sharing your knowledge, very much appreciated
I was just doubting myself
and also with this set oddly the box style is different 'for this set'
from any others 'of this set' anywhere I've seen which added fuel
to my doubt.
And thank you Turez for finding the box styles, mine is the 100% the second release,
brilliant, many thanks for taking the time to share the links. All the best,
Rob.
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In General, Dagobrick writes:
I was just doubting myself
and also with this set oddly the box style is different 'for this set'
from any others 'of this set' anywhere I've seen which added fuel
to my doubt.
ohhh ScubaSteve - you da man! Thank you for confirming. I was just doubting myself
and also with this set oddly the box style is different 'for this set'
from any others 'of this set' anywhere I've seen which added fuel
to my doubt.
So thank you very much for sharing your knowledge, very much appreciated
Anytime, a lot of people who post in these threads tend to be sarcastic, rhetorical
and even laugh at each other.Sometimes even a tad cranky
But at the end of the day we are here for each other.
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