Dürer's tray

[Macruran]

What set is that one from Raven?

[Birdie]

Oooh now I'm really curious too! Hope someone figures it out soon.

[sbblabotw]

Raven is right: numbers molded into the plastic are MOLD numbers, and are the same for parts of the same mold. Completely unrelated to part numbers, which differ with colour and printing. I do have some in the database - they're searchable via text search - but I only have a few hundred, since I have to have the part in hand to be sure of the mold number (and only large-ish stiff plastic parts have them, it seems).

About the tray: looks like a mistake to me. I don't have a definite answer about its origin, but I'll explain my detective work.

If Raven has this part...
Part 30 21 8003 - "Picture frame, flat back" in blue from 5496 - Advent Calendar Christmas Room with Illuminating Tree

and it is from the same mold as the mystery brown one, then it may be that it has the same German name: overwhelming evidence to support this. Other parts with "Leinwand" as the German name are:

Part 30 45 4480 - "Picture frame, flat back" in white from 5998 - Playmobil Inn
Part 30 21 5023 - "Tray with raised edges" in light yellow in 5587 - Christmas Market
(There are a couple that are clearly not the same thing, but we'll ignore them for now.)

There is also a part that I have a number and German name, "Leinwand", for, but no picture or set assignment.
Part 30 21 6043 - "Leinwand III" in ?

This may very well be it. The sequence of part numbers starting with "30 21" leads me to believe it was first released in 2014. If anyone, digging through 2014 offerings, finds it, I'd be happy to match it up. I'm still pretty sure it doesn't belong with Dürer, though.

[GrahamB]

Its always great to see a master (-ess) at work, Heather!

[Macruran]

Amazing, Heather! Thank you very much! We are always in your debt.

I guess that the sorting machine was programmed to add a "picture frame" to the box and somehow accidentally picked an extra, different frame.

[Tiermann]

I find it really weird in that sense. I think it must have gotten mixed in with the gold frames and just ended up as an extra. At least you also got the correct frame. and it didn't end up as a substitute.

[Raven]

If Raven has this part...
Part 30 21 8003 - "Picture frame, flat back" in blue from 5496 - Advent Calendar Christmas Room with Illuminating Tree

Oh wow, that is so amazing - I had no idea where I'd got my blue picture frame from (it lives in a small container of 'unstickered signs').  But, yes, it is from that set.  I didn't think I'd ever use a Christmassy picture, so I never put the sticker on; just left it blank, so I could use it for other (printed-out image) things.

I'd love to know where the brown version comes from, though, and its part number.  To have a brown unstickered frame would be so much more useful and versatile than just a blue one.....

[Macruran]

Well I certainly have no use for it. Let's make a deal!

[Rhalius]

I think I received this one with both of my Dürers. So I used one painting on the gold frame and one on this wooden one which can be seen in the story I did for my purchases after it came in.

It fits better in the gold frame though, since it leaves much less uncovered space.

[Hadoque]

The frame is interesting and so Rhalius as well has a Dürer set that came with this brown frame...
That raises "The Great Dilemma"... Should we unbox our MISB Dürers in the hope of finding too such a mistakenly added darkbrown picture frame?