08-21-2020, 02:37 PM
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Join Date: Dec 2006
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Originally Posted by ghrocketman
The two-panel #88 set in the '52 catalog is closer to the modern #89, but has less content.
Same with the three-panel #89 in the 1952 catalog; similar to the modern #99, but less content.
I also noticed in the 1952 catalog there are no sliding clear flat-top sets like the later #88N and #84 sets.
That little bench #205 set is super cool.
Would be really surprised if they sold many, and would be more surprised if even one survives.
That stocked bench would have been a really nice display in the window of a vintage hobby shop.
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And until we can fill in more catalog ‘gaps’, we don’t really know how many years some of these items like this hobby bench was even offered. Could have been offered just this one year; we just don’t know. But yeah, it is pretty neat, if not a bit on the small side (if you compare its overall size to the tools in and on it, one can see it is not all that big...but neat, nonetheless).
Earl
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