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10000 series features

 

The 10000 series consists of 18 packs of 13.5 x 11.5 x 2.5 cm dimensions, containing subjects in HO scale, with catalog numbers from 10001 to 10018.

The first 10 packs contain single subjects while the last 8 each contain two different subjects.

The 10000 series was produced, from November 1971 to 1973, in a first graphic format, called the first edition, including the catalog numbers from 10001 to 10012, whose main characteristics can be summarized as follows:

- the number of pieces contained is no longer indicated on the front of the packaging
- back of the packs with a colored portion and a small window for the first 10 packs
- completely white back of the packs with the list of the first 13 packs of the same series and the
  first packs of the 600 series for packs 10011 and 10012

The first packs of this edition contained within them a voucher to win a speedboat.

Subsequently, from January 1974, the 10000 series was produced in a second graphic format, called the second edition, also including the catalog numbers from 10013 to 100018, whose main characteristics can be summarized as follows:

- the number of pieces contained is no longer indicated on the front of the packs
- completely white back of the packs with the list of the first 16 packs of the same series and the first packs

   of the 600 series for the first 16 packs less than 10014.
- completely white back of the packs with the list of all 18 packs of the same series for packs 10014,10017

   and 10018.

In the short period of transition from the first to the second edition, some of the first 10 packs of the first edition were placed on the market without the transparent window on the back, replaced by a white box, and (probably in conjunction with the production of packs 10011 and 10012) with the completely white back of the package containing the list of the first 13 packages of the same series and the first packages of the 600 series, effectively creating what can be defined as two "intermediate editions".

 

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