1979 Metallic Creations Signature Miniatures

[FireGardy]

It's too bad that they didn't stamp all of the statues on the bottom. I typed the company name from the Clemente into google but didn't come up with anything. I suppose it's possible this set ended up in several different hands over the few years these were made. The cards on the order blank look like the borderless version that are printed on photo stock. Has anyone ever seen a silver plated statue?

[laughlinfan]

I do know that the original eight were shipped with the borderless blank backed "photo" cards, as shown in this ad. I have only seen that version used for the first eight, and of course they did change over to the black bordered stat back version for those eight fairly soon in the run.

I didn't include it in the photo, but I think the McCovey we have almost looks like it had a manufacturing mark on the bottom, but then was melted or soldered over to remove it. The bottom looked very strange.

[laughlinfan]

So a few months later we go from 8 to 12:

[laughlinfan]

New distributor, and sneaking Guidry into the mix...

[laughlinfan]

Ugh. Confusing. This must be from a bit before the last one, since it only lists 12(?)

[laughlinfan]

Less than a year later - you guessed it! Another name attached to these.

This lists 17 statues now - missing the following:

Brett
Cedeno
Clemente
Garvey
Munson

[FireGardy]

At least it looks like I don't have a silver Carew to hunt down; I hope they just used images of the proofs for that ad because I'd hate to think that there may be other cards out there without black borders. I guess that piece mentioning the Sports Legends explains the Sandy Hawley that appeared in one of the ads that I posted earlier. I was wondering why a jockey was on that list.

[Dennis K]

Does anyone know something about this Rose statue?? I purchased this statue in the early 80's at a show in Philadelphia. The base is stamped Gartlan Assoc. I do not think it is part of the Signature Miniature statue group, but it is of Pete Rose statue, it's pewter, and came out at the time of the other statues. thanks for any info.

[sschauer]

The Rose figure is from Gartlan they gave this figurine free to customers who ordered $75 or more worth of product. 1000 issued not signed or numbered. They are rarely seen think the size only about 1" and fact hard to tell who it is many were lost/destroyed/discarded.