Lego Mursten Set (Lego)

Exhibit
Lego Mursten Set (Lego) (i)
location:
Arch Two , Area 25 Lego before Lego (display)
Shelf 2 1953 - 1955

A boxed Lego Mursten (="Lego Bricks") set from the 1950s.

Box lid artwork for the set

Dating

The Lego Mursten rebranding is supposed to have happened in 1953. We're not sure if this set is one of the first sets or not, but if it's not, it can't be all that much later, because in around ~1955 Lego then rebranded the plastic bricks range again, this time as Lego System.