Are loose transogram figures worth anything?
 

I know these don’t quite make the age test for the forum but I thought someone might know a little about them. I bought a lot at an auction “plastic baseball players” picture wasn’t very clear but they turned out to be what I thought, loose transogram figures from 1969-70 era. I have a boxed set or two and I know the cards are traded but don’t see any listings for the individual figures. They are very crude but they are assigned to be individual players. Besides the dismembered pieces I have Clemente, Cubs, orioles etc. Are they worth anything without boxes?

They have some value without boxes. I can’t recall exactly what I paid but I bought a Mantle without the box years ago and it wasn’t expensive but wasn’t cheap either - I also bought a separated card and a complete box and card because I’m nuts and needed each possible configuration.

I should add that they are pretty cool and look great on shelves, etc.

Not sure of the value of if they are displayed right they do look really cool

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Originally Posted by mrreality68 (Post 2132363) Not sure of the value of if they are displayed right they do look really cool

Looks like right now they are in the beanball fight pose... :D

I like them, and they definitely have value. Quick check of eBay shows a sold McClain for 50 a couple moths ago which I think is not a typical value. I would say maybe $5 for commons up to maybe 75 or more for Mantle, Clemente, etc. but that is just an educated guess. I would think that most of these that were opened did not survive these last 50 years. To have decent value, I would suspect that you would need all correct original parts and all three stickers (front team insignia, back name and uniform number, and cap insignia). The adhesive on the stickers wasn't super strong, so even light play probably resulted in the loss of many of the stickers. If I recall correctly, the Standard Catalog may have given a value for cards and then an estimated value for loose figures(?) Many of the players in the set are very popular, which helps. Have some of mine in a small display case - sorry for the low quality!

WOW LOVE THIS DISPLAY
This is a great way to highlight these.
Makes it a showpiece/center piece for a room

Same here. It looks fantastic.

It looks like a Ron Santo in the upper left corner. I did need a Billy Williams for my complete box but I used a couple of drops of super glue to reattach his feet to the base.

Just noticed to the left of your display is an interesting looking pictures.
Could you by chance to a picture and post it and tell us a little about it?

Thanks

Interesting that all of these Transogram Statues appear to be fielding poses. I wonder why there are no Batting (or even base-running) poses?

I love the display, but it's hard to identify the players without their display boxes. Very generic figures... I have the Tony Perez in-box, but it looks more like Darrel Chaney.

I'm guessing that may be an M101-2 Sporting News team supplement.

Bob is correct! 1912 Red Sox Sporting News supplement. One of the players on the team (Hugh Bedient) is from my (small!) hometown, so I pick up any items of his when I find them.

As Mark mentions, they really didn't try to make the faces resemble the players they are representing. They did get the gloves on the correct hand, and did try to produce skin tones that are (somewhat) ethnically correct. As far as I am aware, they produced no figures in a batting stance (not sure why!). Multiple fielding poses and pitching poses. I took the front off the case for a slightly better picture - you can see the team insignias and cap insignias, but as someone mentioned you can't tell it is Pete Rose next to Clemente next to Johnny Callison (losing a fly ball in the lights?) in the top left corner, but you can probably make inferences looking at the fronts.

Anyway, happy collecting!

I have the cubs set Williams, Santo, and Banks. Have to put Santo on a base for now he is just sitting on the bench. Have some good players Clemente, Aaron, Seaver, brooks Robinson, etc. I have reassembled quite a few out of the boneyard. Unfortunately I am not always sure I put the right torso on the legs. The pictures posted will help with that. These are put together with torso, two arms, legs as one unit a head and a hat.