The description for the 001-1 currently reads "Produced starting in 1966
as a USA Sears catalog set."
This is completely useless information. Not only is it misled(as the 001 only
ever appeared in the 1965 Sears Wishbook and not subsequent issues, seen below),
but the 001 appeared as a catalog set in (and not limited to) Eatons, FAO Schwarz,
JCPenney, Jordan Marsh, Marshall Fields, May Co, and Spiegel through its run.
Please remove that description entirely if anything. The 001 was the most distributed
set in Samsonite's entire line and there is nothing special about the Sears
appearance over others.
I suspect it was intended to reference the plain mailer box version of the 001,
which was not available through Sears but instead JCPenney catalog sales from
1966-70, as the two variants of the catalog mailer box that I know of have a
JCPenney catalog number on them or date far later than 1965. That would be worthy
of note if you wish.
Samsonite did not start producing plain mailer boxes for catalog sets until 1966
anyway, so the 1965 Sears 001 couldn't have come in a plain box and no surviving
examples reflect such.
The description for the 001-1 currently reads "Produced starting in 1966
as a USA Sears catalog set."
This is completely useless information. Not only is it misled(as the 001 only
ever appeared in the 1965 Sears Wishbook and not subsequent issues, seen below),
but the 001 appeared as a catalog set in (and not limited to) Eatons, FAO Schwarz,
JCPenney, Jordan Marsh, Marshall Fields, May Co, and Spiegel through its run.
Please remove that description entirely if anything. The 001 was the most distributed
set in Samsonite's entire line and there is nothing special about the Sears
appearance over others.
I suspect it was intended to reference the plain mailer box version of the 001,
which was not available through Sears but instead JCPenney catalog sales from
1966-70, as the two variants of the catalog mailer box that I know of have a
JCPenney catalog number on them or date far later than 1965. That would be worthy
of note if you wish.
Gary Istok wrote this about this 'set' 20 years ago:
The description for the 001-1 currently reads "Produced starting in 1966
as a USA Sears catalog set."
This is completely useless information. Not only is it misled(as the 001 only
ever appeared in the 1965 Sears Wishbook and not subsequent issues, seen below),
but the 001 appeared as a catalog set in (and not limited to) Eatons, FAO Schwarz,
JCPenney, Jordan Marsh, Marshall Fields, May Co, and Spiegel through its run.
Please remove that description entirely if anything. The 001 was the most distributed
set in Samsonite's entire line and there is nothing special about the Sears
appearance over others.
I suspect it was intended to reference the plain mailer box version of the 001,
which was not available through Sears but instead JCPenney catalog sales from
1966-70, as the two variants of the catalog mailer box that I know of have a
JCPenney catalog number on them or date far later than 1965. That would be worthy
of note if you wish.
Gary Istok wrote this about this 'set' 20 years ago:
That'd explain where that came from. I don't think it's still in
the newest edition. Twenty years ago we didn't have nearly the wealth of
information we have now, so I don't blame him for writing what he did. Though
even with the full origin of the note, I'm still not sure exactly what it
was meant to convey, or how he got the wrong year. Nor why it was worthy of noting
on BL.
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