***Hi Folks! Before we get into this week's subject, let's get caught up on some past and future business. We thank all of those who participated in our latest Blow-Out auction of October 9th. We were very happy with the results and plan on doing more next year. It's a way of offering lesses priced items to our loyal customer base. Our next catalog auction will end Friday November 20, 2009.
We would also like to let you know what our upcoming show schedule looks like.
1. October 10-11, 2009. We will be setting up at the Kane County Farigrounds Toy Show in St. Charles Illinois. We will be bringing vintage toys, dolls & sports memorabilia including bobbing head dolls and other figural items.
2. November 6-8, 2009. This will be our first time setting up at the Greater Boston Sports Collectors Show. It's located at the Aleppo Shriners' Auditorium-99 Fordham Road, Wilmington, MA. We will be bringing hundreds of figural items including vintage bobbing heads, Hartland & Kail statues, hall of Fame busts, pennants and more.
3. December 4-6, 2009. This will be our thrid visit to the Philadelphia Sports Collectors Show located in valley Forge pennsyvania. Again- we will be bringing hundreds of figural items for direct sale.
If your in these areas, please come by and say hello!
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ROBERT GOULD CATALOG & ORDER FORM
The Robert Gould statue series of 1955 is one of the most under-rated in the hobby. In a past Blog entry, we lauded the virtues of this 28 statue set. What we didn't cover is their terrific catalog(see pictures below). the catalog features pictures of every card that accompanied each statue. The inside cover is an address from Robert Gould to collectors. The back inside cover promises more statues which unfortunately never came about. the back cover lists all of the 1955 issue.
We recently found and incredible order sheet that was a mail away from baby Ruth & Butterfinger's Candy bars. With this order sheet, 50 cents and 2 wrappers of either candy bar, a collectors could order 1 of 4 different sets of 7 statues from the company. We've never seen this order form before. Pretty neat- right?
