Help with Hartland boxes and variations

[whiteymet]

Hi All:

Hoping some of you can help on some research I am doing on Hartland boxes. You can click on the link to see the boxes or they are all dispalyed at the bottom except for the regular box which I assume you all know what it looks like.

There are three basic types of boxes for the baseball set. The "original' baseball scene box:




http://www.flickr.com/photos/60186364@N00/5232097150/



I know of several variations in these boxes, for example the Berra box comes with a large baseball on the front or a circle with his signature and New York Yankees. The same holds true for the Spahn, except of course his team is the Braves.

The first question I have on the baseball scene box is do any of you have or have photo evidence of any of the following: MATHEWS W/O PHOTO IN CIRCLE ON FRONT OF BOX, APARICIO W/NAME IN CIRCLE ON FRONT OF BOX, AARON, MUSIAL, WILLIAMS W/O PHOTO ON SIDE OF BOX, RUTH W/O DRAWING ON SIDE OF BOX.

My guess on the next box I will show you is that the company ran out of boxes for certain players. They chose to use other boxes and apply yellow sticker(s) to, say, a Ruth box to make a Colavito box. See:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/60186364@N00/5232088106/



http://www.flickr.com/photos/60186364@N00/5231496197/



Question: Does anyone have other boxes with the yellow stickers?

Hartland next changed the boxes over to the cello version with team logos on the flap:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/60186364@N00/5232087910/

Can anyone confirm the following players with this type of logo front cello box: KILLEBREW, MANTLE, MARIS, MUSIAL

Next we have the Cello Box version with a batter on the tear away flap:


http://www.flickr.com/photos/60186364@N00/5231496075/



Can anyone confirm the following boxes with the batter on the front: AARON, DRYSDALE, FOX, GROAT

The final Hartland box offering got more generic. They used the batter front box but instead of printing the players name on the box they used a blue sticker see:


http://www.flickr.com/photos/60186364@N00/5232088048/

Do any of you have ANY box like this with the blue sticker? If so, PLEASE LMK what player(s).

I am also interested in any Hartland statue varitions, prototypes etc. that any of you might have in your collection. For instance I have a Babe Ruth where the NY was never painted on the front of his uniform. A Drysdale where the 53 on the front was not painted among others. Many of the Braves come with and without the Tom A Hawk painted, others with the Tom A Hawk painted and no Braves!! What do you have along this line?

I would be glad to send any info on the Hartland boxes as well as variations I have on the statues to anyone interested.

I have many statues, boxes, tags, and a Mantle lamp in Baseball to trade as well as Football boxes and statues to trade. Send any wantlists.

Thanks to all in advance for any info you can supply.