What about these old houses? I recently inherited two old Lego buildings. Unfortunately I have virtually no information about the history of them other that they been part of the inventory of an old hardware store closed a decade ago.

By the look of them I would guess they are from the early 70's. The windmill-house has some of the old red, blue and yellow Technic gears in them and a custom non-Lego motor to make it spin forever.

Everything is glued together but there is apparently parts broken off in some places.

Some theories:


Are they custom built in the old hardware store without blueprints?
Are they part of some Lego advertising campaign?
Are they actual Lego sets with a number to reference them?


Does anyone know anything about them? Would they be worth some money?
The top picture is for sure a model created from single elements, and is not any Lego model.

Your lower model looks like a combination from 5 or 6 different houses. I recognize the Taxi station (Red with blue roof on the bottom), Bakery (Yellow and blue roof on top of that).

Try brickset.com and look for the older catalogues.