1979 Metallic Creations Signature Miniatures

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I have several of the Garvey statue and cards and a few other easier to come by cards of different players. I think I may have gotten at least one from the guy described earlier as buying out the stock, as I remember getting photo copies with my statue showing what I seem to remember as flyers promoting and selling the statues and possibly even a story on them (Maybe from SCD?). I am not 100% sure I kept the copies he sent, but I will have to see if I can find them if I did.

It was interesting that it was noted these were purchased from Pacific Trading Cards. I live in WA and remember visiting Mike Cramer's store before he was producing cards at the volume we later knew as Pacific Trading Cards. That shop was a favorite stop when we visited my sister and drove by. My parents would usually agree to stop for my brother and I. At the time, he was doing minor league sets and those Cramer Production sepia old timer cards. I remember getting several boxes of 1984 Topps FB from him, as they were $5 each!

A few years back, he was selling old stock out of what was once a retail store in front of the card factory in Lynnwood, WA. I didn't see anything like the statues, but he had bundles of stuff, just like you'd see in his catalogs (pennants, pins, books, cards, etc).

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Made it back a week ago to take a look at our set - thought I would share a few pictures. First, the intact Cedeno, which I think may have been the last one we picked up.

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Here are a couple of shots of some of the later figures in the set - check out the differences in composition, quality, and the markings on the bottom. Made us question if they were all really from the same set - certainly different issuers. They all had a similar style, and the name plate on the base of the statue at least seemed to suggest they were trying to continue the series.

This is Carew, Cedeno, Clemente, Munson, and Brett:

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I promised FireGardy I would post some of the old literature my mom pulled out for me - I think this was the first ad we saw for these. More scans to follow!

[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?

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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.

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