1979 Metallic Creations Signature Miniatures

[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