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KeithMark, I don't know your email address, but shoot me an email to kjjavic@aol.com.
As to the statues, I purchased a group of 8 Kails at an estate sale about 4 years ago. 4 were the ones with the bases, and 4 were small standing Kails without the bases. I have yet to see another like them, and have not seen a Vikings one either.
Also, I guess 1 other possibility to their origin is that a store made the bases for the statues to sell them. Meaning that they weren't made by Kail, nor were they made by a single collector. I am not exactly sure how these statues were sold in the 60's. Were they sold in stadiums? or sporting good stores? or 5 and 10 type stores?