[Steve D]

The one's where the signature is on a thick poster-board-like material (like the Yaz and Kareem), are hand-signed by the player.

Others (like the Magic Johnson), are facsimile signatures.

I was heavily into the large Gartlan figurines when they first came out. Later though, Goldin bought out Gartlan, and dumped them on Shop at Home and QVC, which tanked the values. Some of them have rebounded value-wise, but others are still only worth a fraction of their original selling price.

All of the figurines also came in a smaller, about 4-5" tall, facsimile-signed version; but all of the larger versions (except the yellow uniform Magic Johnson), were actually hand-signed by the player. The Magic and Kareem figurines also came in a purple-uniform version (I think limited to their uniform numbers), that were hand-signed by them. Magic only actually signed the purple-uniforms, while I believe Kareem signed all the large ones.

One other note on the Kareem statue is that it came with small plastic goggles that fit on his head.

Steve