April 3, 2025: Spring Auction
Here’s yet another artifact so difficult and highly coveted that it would elicit dramatic interest even in lesser grades, but really turns heads in this kind of blazing Near-Mint status. In a fabled series riddled with Hall of Famers, the 1959 Home Run Champion holds a unique status as one of the most difficult to find among all his peers from the 18-statue set. As noted, this is an outstanding figure, with an attractive painting effort and a wonderful patina and presentation. The important toeplate is quite flat and without issue, but the figure itself lists just a wee bit to the port side, something that can likely be addressed by some gentle tinkering by the winning bidder. Thought to have been produced in significantly smaller numbers than his counterparts, the rarity of the Colavito figure has long placed it among the true Holy Grails for advanced collectors. Conventional wisdom suggests the production run for Rocco was “only” 10,000, which is a fraction of the believed totals of many of the others approaching 100,000 or more.
1963 Hartland Statues High-Grade Rocky Colavito
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