{"id":308,"date":"2010-02-23T18:29:00","date_gmt":"2010-02-23T18:29:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.brickbuildr.com\/index.php\/2010\/02\/23\/another-artifact\/"},"modified":"2019-10-11T21:01:08","modified_gmt":"2019-10-12T02:01:08","slug":"another-artifact","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.brickbuildr.com\/index.php\/2010\/02\/23\/another-artifact\/","title":{"rendered":"Another Artifact"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><\/div>\n<p>So I managed to win an auction for another LEGO artifact &#8212; <a href=\"https:\/\/brickset.com\/sets\/348-2\/Mini-Wheel-Car-and-Truck-Set\">#348-2 Mini-Wheel Model Maker<\/a>, I&#8217;ll post pictures on Flickr later of the box, instructions, and parts (once I receive it).\u00a0 From the on-line pictures, it looks to be in good shape.<\/p>\n<p>A few months ago, I won an auction for a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/mwhuffman\/sets\/72157623116680880\/\">#371 Motorized Truck Set<\/a>.\u00a0 The box was in great shape for being over 40+ years old&#8230; I don&#8217;t have a deep seeded need to start collecting LEGO sets from the 70&#8217;s, but the motorized truck was a little bit of a personal <a href=\"http:\/\/news.lugnet.com\/general\/?n=18305\">vindication<\/a> for me.\u00a0 The Mini-Wheel Car and Truck Set was just going for too cheap, IMO.<\/p>\n<p>The other ancient LEGO set I manage to pick up was the <a href=\"http:\/\/guide.lugnet.com\/set\/725_3\">#725 Town-Plan<\/a> in excellent shape.\u00a0 Not all the parts were there&#8230; I think the trees and cars were missing, but everything else was in great shape &#8212; the bricks were still minty fresh.<\/p>\n<p>One of these days, I&#8217;ll probably pass them on to fellow collector or the <a href=\"http:\/\/danstoymuseum.blogspot.com\/\">LEGO museum<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=brickbuildr\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So I managed to win an auction for another LEGO artifact &#8212; #348-2 Mini-Wheel Model Maker, I&#8217;ll post pictures on<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"episode_type":"","audio_file":"","podmotor_file_id":"","podmotor_episode_id":"","cover_image":"","cover_image_id":"","duration":"","filesize":"","filesize_raw":"","date_recorded":"","explicit":"","block":"","itunes_episode_number":"","itunes_title":"","itunes_season_number":"","itunes_episode_type":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[287,10,285,284,286],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-308","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-collection","category-lego","category-model-maker","category-samsonite","category-vintage"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6YMsl-4Y","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brickbuildr.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/308","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brickbuildr.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brickbuildr.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brickbuildr.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brickbuildr.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=308"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.brickbuildr.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/308\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":132815,"href":"https:\/\/www.brickbuildr.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/308\/revisions\/132815"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brickbuildr.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=308"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brickbuildr.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=308"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brickbuildr.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=308"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}