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<blockquote data-quote="Joe" data-source="post: 390653" data-attributes="member: 440"><p>Totally see your point guys and again, it's not for me either but if it's from the LFL archive as described then it may well have housed a set of coins at one point, just one that was obviously never mailed out. </p><p></p><p>Unused probably means exactly that actually, not that a coin set never went anywhere near it. The staples (and holes on the other side) indicate that it was once stapled shut after all. It wouldn't surprise me if the coin sets were packed into these envelopes in bulk ready for address labels, maybe this one was just pieced out by CIB or sold separately to a customer of theirs that didn't want the bag? It's always been said that very few people ever took Kenner up on the offer of purchasing a full set through the mail too which could well be the reason some of them never had an address label.</p><p></p><p>The LFL archive was a very real thing though and it housed thousands of case fresh toys. CIB/Tom must have a long running relationship with them as they were involved in writing up COA's and grading LFL archive items, as evidenced by all of the stuff that was auctioned off at Celebration IV (example here: http://forum.rebelscum.com/t1056233/ ) which is why I have faith in it being what it's being sold as.</p><p></p><p>You guys are right when you say that it's just a period mailer envelope though and who knows, you may even be able to find an identical example for next to nothing on eBay if you looked hard enough but with the LFL/Kenner connection it's always going to be seen as "more" than just a brown envelope.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Joe, post: 390653, member: 440"] Totally see your point guys and again, it's not for me either but if it's from the LFL archive as described then it may well have housed a set of coins at one point, just one that was obviously never mailed out. Unused probably means exactly that actually, not that a coin set never went anywhere near it. The staples (and holes on the other side) indicate that it was once stapled shut after all. It wouldn't surprise me if the coin sets were packed into these envelopes in bulk ready for address labels, maybe this one was just pieced out by CIB or sold separately to a customer of theirs that didn't want the bag? It's always been said that very few people ever took Kenner up on the offer of purchasing a full set through the mail too which could well be the reason some of them never had an address label. The LFL archive was a very real thing though and it housed thousands of case fresh toys. CIB/Tom must have a long running relationship with them as they were involved in writing up COA's and grading LFL archive items, as evidenced by all of the stuff that was auctioned off at Celebration IV (example here: http://forum.rebelscum.com/t1056233/ ) which is why I have faith in it being what it's being sold as. You guys are right when you say that it's just a period mailer envelope though and who knows, you may even be able to find an identical example for next to nothing on eBay if you looked hard enough but with the LFL/Kenner connection it's always going to be seen as "more" than just a brown envelope. [/QUOTE]
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