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Carter-Hoffman/Anri UCLA statue

The pictures below were submitted to us by an advanced collector of Carter-Hoffman statues. It's of a UCLA Bruins football player. Now, as you know, Carter-Hoffman specialized in making mascot statues in the early 50's. This one is unusual for a couple of reasons. First- is it's size- measuring about 14" tall. The second is the action- all of the Carter-Hoffman statues that we've seen have never had an actual football scenario. Third- we have seen smaller UCLA Carter-Hoffman's and they are always of their mascot bear. Being that there is no visible markings that state carter-Hoffman, we believe that it could have been made by their biggest competitor- Anri. In any event, this piece is aweome!