1979 Metallic Creations Signature Miniatures

[laughlinfan]

Hey Fred - great stuff!

What a fantastically strange little set this is!

Dan, no Yaz that we ever heard of, but stick around - we learn something new about these guys every year!


Marty

[whiteymet]

Originally Posted by laughlinfan

Hey Fred - great stuff!

What a fantastically strange little set this is!

Dan, no Yaz that we ever heard of, but stick around - we learn something new about these guys every year!


Marty

Hi Marty:

Good to "hear" from you. I sent you an email. If you did not get it, please PM me.

Thanks,

Fred

[whiteymet]

Hi Guys:

Reviving this thread again

Just found a real head scratcher from this set.

A complete second pose for the Walter Johnson statue from the Signature Miniature/Metallic Creations set.

The "normal" Johnson has him with his glove hand on his left knee. See photo with the red background. The new find has the Big Train with both arms behind his back. I have to assume this is a prototype.

Note the pin striped uniform and the missing "W" from his cap and jersey on the prototype.

Anyone else have this pose or any ideas what this could be?

I am also looking for Cedeno and Brett from the set if anyone out there has one or both please PM me.

Thanks

Fred

[laughlinfan]

Hey Fred!

Nice find! I have never seen this pose, but I would agree that maybe this was an early prototype. Pretty sure we got in when they first came out, and ours was the hand on the knee version. Seems to be a different art "style" than the others, maybe. Perhaps they worked with a couple of different artists before they went into production?

[laughlinfan]

On the bright side, the pandemic provides time to go through old boxes! Found this ad from the Summer 1982 Sports Gift Digest catalog, and can see our hand written notations that this was the first time we saw the Cedeno figure available (three years after the first 8 were issued). The price seems a bit steep for almost 40 years ago, but I needed it for the set, or at least as far as I knew!

[Exhibitman]

Koufax card:



I got a bunch of these in a collection I purchased a few years ago. No statues. The cards included some of the original Kodak paper round cornered ones as well as the other varieties.

[whiteymet]

Originally Posted by laughlinfan

On the bright side, the pandemic provides time to go through old boxes! Found this ad from the Summer 1982 Sports Gift Digest catalog, and can see our hand written notations that this was the first time we saw the Cedeno figure available (three years after the first 8 were issued). The price seems a bit steep for almost 40 years ago, but I needed it for the set, or at least as far as I knew!

Marty:

Thanks for posting! Seems odd that the Cedeno was issued, or at least listed here before the Munson and Clemente statues. While those are tough the Cedeno seems harder to find. I guess less people ordered his statue as compared to Munson and Clemente.

Did you ever get into the 1988 Baseball Superstars Statues or the similar Metz statues? If so do you have checklists or ads for them? I started a thread about them in the memorabilia area and have not had much in the way of replies/help. Please take a look .

Fred