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Post Posted: Thu Jun 07, 2018 8:02 am 
 

Besides looking kind of old?

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Post Posted: Thu Jun 07, 2018 10:29 am 
 

They aren't anything I'm familiar with. I agree they look older. I'd need much better pictures to do any real research on them though, no offense meant. I'd have to be able to read several of the numbers and that they'd be face up on their highest number while reading them.

Instead of taking a bunch of new pictures, it would be easier since you have them in your possession to Check Dice Collector yourself and see if you can come up with a manufacturer there. Here's a link

DiceCollector.com - How do you identify who made a die?

See if that helps and comment back here, I'm curious to know too. Your's don't match up with any of my old sets that I've checked so far.

  


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Post Posted: Sat Jun 09, 2018 2:55 am 
 

Those don't actually look that old to me. Are the die numbers filled in by crayon, or printed? Perhaps better pictures would help, but at first blush those look non-standard for a 70's or 80's A/D&D set... probably something of the 90's if those colored die numbers were printed.

  


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Post Posted: Sat Jun 09, 2018 8:10 pm 
 

I appreciate the help! I will upload a few more pics as well. There are a few "markings." These are smaller than the Holmes set dice. I put them side by side.

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Post Posted: Sat Jun 09, 2018 8:13 pm 
 

One last pic...

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Post Posted: Sun Jun 10, 2018 3:41 am 
 

The d10 with a "cut" on the top/bottom might be an indication that they could be a set by Armory...  I have a set of them at home and will check with mine.
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Post Posted: Sun Jun 10, 2018 12:35 pm 
 

I'm more inclined to believe that is a set from a D&D box. I have an identical d10 and d20 to these, except mine are brown. I know mine came from a friend's Moldvay Basic set a long time ago, the d4, d6, and d8 having long since disappeared. It's notable that there is no d12 here, as the d12 from what I recall wasn't used in D&D until much later. Don't put too much into that: it's hard to remember back when I was a kid and a d12 could have been present.



  


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Post Posted: Sun Jun 10, 2018 1:10 pm 
 

Yep, these are the dice that came with the Moldvay or Cook sets. There was a d12. They came un-inked in a bag with a crayon. http://www.athenopolis.net/2018/02/tsr- ... basic.html

  


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Post Posted: Sun Jun 10, 2018 5:53 pm 
 

grubbiv wrote in Any significance to these dice?:Yep, these are the dice that came with the Moldvay or Cook sets. There was a d12. They came un-inked in a bag with a crayon. http://www.athenopolis.net/2018/02/tsr- ... basic.html



Wow and thanks! There are so many other sites I am unaware of...

  
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