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Originally Posted by jimtric
...I believe these team sets were originally shipped intact, completed in a large Styrofoam container.....Did anyone buy any such item from Danbury when they were produced?
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I did not buy any of these when originally offered, but I know some people who still have them. You are correct - they were sold as complete sets, but I do not know how they were shipped (I assume in one container).
I still get the Danbury flyers in the mail from time to time. They're beautiful sets, but when they were originally offered I wasn't in a position to buy - I think they were something like $200 per team (?).
I see the 1927 Yankees team a lot - and that's what I would have purchased. Some of the pieces are often broken by now, especially the bats off the various players. The posts that hold the players up are also bent sometimes. I think the idea was pretty neat, especially the way they made the players/manager anatomically correct by their various heights.