2015/16 COLLECTOR'S PRICE GUIDE TO HARMONY KINGDOM

 

HARMONY KINGDOM

PART   1

This price guide has been compiled from a variety of sources, including several dealers' price lists and results of auctions on ebay. You will no doubt find pieces which are cheaper or more expensive than stated,                    


A= Angelique series HOLL* Holiday numbered SP= Special commissions
CLUB=Royal Watch Collectors' limited editions and exdusives
Club exdusives LBHG    Lord Byron's Harmony STJ = Small Treasure Jest
DIS= Disney Theme Park Garden TEF= The Elusive Few - the
exlusive LTD= Limited Edition rarest pieces
ELTj= Extra Large Treasure Jest LTJ = Large Treasure Jest TGP= The Garden Party
EVENT=Special Event pieces MTJ = Mini Treasure Jest Vi= Version 1
HC= Harmony Circus PDX= Paradoxicals V2= Version 2
HIJ=Hi-Jinx series RA= Romance Annual
HOL= Holiday time limited RLTJ= Rather Large Treasure
edition Jest

           


Name     Type                       Production             £   price                $  price
Albatross LBHG                 Apr '00               £29.50                   $45
Algenon STJ                         Jan '98                £29.50                   $45
Vi with email address  Dec 93                    £60                           $95
All Angles Covered ST)          Sep '94                 £24.95                    $35
All Ears ST)                        Dec '93-Dec '96 £130                  $210
All Tied Up ST)            Sep '93-Dec '96         £120                  $190
Alpine Flower LBHG          Jan '99               £29.50                  $45
Angel Baroque TEF    jun '96-Nov '97      £1,250                 $2,000
62 produced
Never released in the US and very limited UK release, this is one of the
rarest HK pieces
Antarctic Antics HI)        Aug '94-'98         £65                         $100
Antipasto STJ                        Jan *98-'99         £30                          $45
Aria Amorosa ST)              Jan '98-July '98         £30                         $45
9,555 released
At Arm's Length ST)        Sep '93-Jun '96         £225                 $350
2,029 released
At The Hop STJ                  Nov '95                £24.95                  $35
Awaiting A Kiss LTJ           Mar '91              £39-95                   $65
Baby Boomer ST)               Jan '98-'99        £60                         $95
Vi - Interior contains Baby kangeroo with teddy
V2- Interior has a pair of Boxing gloves        £30                         $45
Baby On Board ST)      Dec '93-Dec '97         £45                         $70
Back Scratch ST)              Dec '93-Jan '95          £2,500               $4,000
Only 554 issued. V Rare
Bamboozled ST)                   Jun '97
Vi-Bamboo shoots tinted                           £47                 $75
yellow and leaves green
V2-Untinted except for black Panda                  £29.50                  $48
Baroness Trotter TGP             Jan '96           £11.95                $19
Pendant box
Baroness Trotter LTD                                £49.50                $80
Limited edition silver pendant 5,000
Beak To Beak ST)                 Dec '95-Dec '97  £45                          $70
12,422 issued.
Begonia LBHG                Jan '98-Apr '00           £29.50                   $45
11,777 produced
Behold The King CLUB       Jan '98           £110                  $175
1998 Club redemption piece

Beware The Hare SP                                           £50                    $75
NALED/Parkwest exclusive Big Blue CLUB Jan '96/Jan '97 £205 $325
1996 charter year club exclusive redemption piece and 1997 redemption piece.
Bon Bon HOL 2,000                                £24.95                        $35
Bon Chance A                             Jun '96-        £24.95                       $35
Bon Enfant HOL Apr'96-Dec'96               £170                          $250
1996 Christmas box. 8,825 produced There are various versions .
Vi: Orange tunic, green wings,                            £225                  $350
yellow hair and gold applied to top of wings and cuffs
V2: Green tunic, yellow hair, gold cuffs and wings
with gold, yellow, red and green. Interior had
pillow with a heart and arrow.                               £160                    $250
Rare Red tunic:                                                     £650                      $1,000
Bozini The Clown LTD/HC            Jun'98           £19.95                          $30
Limited edition of 10,000 This ltd ed was one of the last pieces in the Harmony Circus which retired in July '98.

Name         Type                           Production                £ price             $   price

Brean Sands STJ J                                un '96                         £24.95          $35

100 pieces have a hand inside

                                                                                      £750              $1,200

remainder have a treasure chest within

A few hundred were produced in

White.

Byron and BumblesCLUB                2000                            £58.95                 $90

Members only redemption piece

Cactus LBHG                           Jan '98                              £29.50                  $45

Cat Nap's Meow EVENT          '99'oo                                   £50                     $75

3,876 produced

Cat's Cradle SP                 Mar '97-Nov '97                           £210                  $340

l.ooo limited edition

Exclusive to Parkwest/NALED

Cat's Cradle Too SP       Aug '97-Dec '97                            £185                    $300

1,000 limited edition

Exclusive to Parkwest/NALED

Catch A Lot STJ                 Jun *98-'99                                   £30                    $45

Catch As Catch Can MTJ Jan 00                                        £19-95                    $30

Caw of the Wild STJ            June '99                                  £29.50                   $45

Celeste HOL              Apr '97-Dec '97                                £30                   $45

1997 Christmas box. 13,794 produced 

Changing Of STJ                    Jun '96                                      £24.95                     $35

The Guard

Chatelaine HOL             May'95-Dec'95                       £225                $350

1995 Christmas box 7,988 produced

Cherry Blossom LBHG     Apr '00                                  £29.50                 $45

of Japan

Christmas Bouquet LTD            Sep '99-'00                                £50                 $75

Limited ed of 5,000

Chrysanthemum LBHG         Jan '97-Jan '00                     £25.95                   $40

Chucky Pig TEF                           Aug '99                               £500                  $750

300 produced and given to

select retailers to auction for charity.

Close Shave STJ                       Jun '96-Oct '98                           £28                $45

Cookie's Jar STJ                  Jan'00                                        £29.50           $45

Cotton Anniversary CLUB    Jul '98                                          £30                    $50

Avail to Club members who

have been with the RW for three years.

Count Belfry TGP                     Jan *97-'99                                 £20                  $30

Courtiers At Rest TGP           Jan '96-                                          £14                 $19

Cow Town CLUB           2000                                         £58.95                  $90

Members only redemption piece

Cranberry LBHG          Jan '97-'99                                     £45                 $75

Creature Comforts SP          July'99                                      £125                $200

Limited edition of 1,000

Retailers exclusive partner piece

to Disorderly Eating

Croc Pot STJ                          Jan '98                                     £29.50                $45

Version 1:                                                                    £60                $95

Crooze Cat EVENT           Sep '99                                         £500                $750

739 produced for those who

went on the Primordial Cruise

Daisy LBHG             Jan '97-Oct  '99                                £30                 $45

Damnable Plot STJ              Jan '95- '99                                        £45                    $75

Danger's Darlings SP        May '00                                         £44-95          $75

Limited ed of 1,500 for retailers

as companion piece to Fishy Business

Day Dreamer STJ                   Dec '93-Jun '96                           £350                $550

4,247 released

Dead Ringer STJ                          Jan '99                                 £29.50               $45

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Murano Glass Facts and Prices

Murano Glass

Most of us are familiar with Murano glass ashtrays - those heavy, hand-blown, brightly-coloured glass bowls that were everywhere in the 1960s and are staging a major comeback. Now they sell for anything from $15 £10 - $40 £25 . Or perhaps you have a Murano glass fish or clown at home. But these make up just a fraction of the island's production. Murano's glass factories have a long and proud tradition dating back centuries.









As with any trade, the glass industry of Murano has seen its ups and downs. The island's current reputation is the result of a glass renaissance that began in the late nineteenth century. The then mayor of the island, Antonio Colleoni, founded a glass museum to showcase the best of the old. At the same time, Antonio Salviati reinvigorated the old glass industry by using the old techniques of ancient glass making that had been lost to Venetian craftsmen.

Murano Glass

Salviati's new art glass found a ready clientele, and, in 1868, he opened a showroom in Regent's Street. Nine years later, he formed a new company, 'Vetreria Salviati Dott. Antonio', which underwent a bewildering change of names over the years, before eventually becoming Barovier e Toso in 1942. The idea of resurrecting old styles was central to the nineteenth-century applied arts, and Murano glass re-interpreted the old techniques used in sixteenth century Venetian glass.





Towards the end of the century, the baton of the avant-garde in glass moved away from Murano. The work of Louis Comfort Tiffany and the French glass makers, like Galle, took centre stage. In the 1920s, Murano began to produce truly original glass forms, rather than those drawn from historical styles. Simple, blown, often monochrome glass represented the artistic segment of production.

Murano Glass

 New manufacturers sprang up, in particular Cappelin Venini and Co, founded in 1921 by Giacomo Cappelin (an antiques dealer) and Paolo Venini (a Milanese lawyer). Brand new glass makers were better able to grasp the new trends in glass without any emotional attachment to the old styles, and Paulo Venini was keen to forge a new style for Italian glass. Venini was just the first of a flood of new companies founded on the island between the wars. 1923 saw the appearance  of Studio Ars Labor Industrie Riunite. In 1932, A.VE.M (Arte Vetraria Muranese) appeared, followed by Seguso Vetri d'Arte in 1933. The world of Murano glass was an incestuous one, with glass makers frequently resigning from one company to set up on their own, leaving an immensely confusing collection of firms, often more than one bearing the name of the original glass maker.






Between the wars, Murano still traded on the traditional took of Venetian glass, using old techniques like 'Fenicio'. With this method, a coloured glass spiral applied to a vase is combed with a sharp tool to create something approaching a herringbone effect. In terms of form, the factories often made classic amphora-shaped vases and urns with handles. "Past eras were sifted through again and again to embellish the banal and seduce the weary customer" explained glass historian, Mark Cousins. In the 1930s, heavy globular art glass appeared. A wide range of finishes were developed, such as the corroso technique of coating the glass with chemicals and then dunking it in acid to create a rough surface. Paulo Venini introduced 'vetro battuto' or 'beaten glass' with tiny indentations to the surface, 'vetro pulegoso' or 'bubbled glass', and 'vetro tessuto', glass with vertical threads of white or coloured glass.












Although new glass companies sprang up on the island in the 1920s and '30s, Murano was just one of many glassmaking centres in the world. Orrefors and the other Scandinavian factories with their overtly modernist designs were outpacing the Italians. The Murano companies were working under a fascist state. In that atmosphere it was difficult to introduce self-consciously modernist ideas under a regime which thought of modernism as degenerate.










It took the Second World War to shake the last vestiges of traditionalism out of the glassworks. The new art glass that rose from the ashes in the late 1940s marked a break with the past. The Murano companies introduced strong colours into their glass - with often garish, technicolour results. As Murano expert, Marc Heiremans, explains: "The main characteristics of the 1950s are undoubtedly a daring multiplicity of colours, forms and decorations influenced by modern art and, above all, a continuous technical renewal". At first, the bright and breezy colours were too much for the depressed export market (the majority of Murano had been sold abroad). In the 1950s, the new 'Murano' look began to reach a fresh young clientele who yearned for clean lines for a new post-war era. Murano reached its peak in the 1950s and early 1960s with great quantities of the glass sold around the world.

Murano Glass

Top designers were brought in to create the new look. At Venini, Gio Ponti and Fulvio Bianconi brought new ideas into the Murano glass industry. Most famously, Bianconi invented the 'handkerchief vase' which looks like a cupped glass handkerchief. Original 1950s' handkerchief vases regularly appear at auction and can make anything from £100 upwards depending on their size and quality. The variations on the basic handkerchief vase included a plethora of striations and decorative lines on the handkerchiefs, and the more unusual the decoration the more attractive they are to collectors.



One of the most popular Murano pieces is the glass clown typically, a colorful
 harlequin built up from blobs of different colored glass. The most valuable are the designer-made clowns from the 1950s which can fetch upwards of $500- £300 at auction. These were more closely modelled on the human form, without the exaggerated figures of the later clowns, and came in more subdued shades.





Many of the original 1950s' designs are still being produced today by Venini. Its principal rival, Barovier e Toso, was creating equally inventive new forms, although in both factories a

Murano Glass

'stripey' motif  was prevalent. Typical of this style, a good Barovier e Toso mezza filigrana vase sold in Sydney in May for A$747_50 (around £300). With Barovier e Toso and Venini leading the field, together with the lesser- known Murano companies, the Italian art glass industry ballooned.
The labour intensive nature of art glass has in the last twenty years reduced the Murano glass industry to a shadow of its former self.






While the middle class homeowner of the 1950s could afford a piece of Murano glass without too much trouble, today's middle classes are as likely to collect the older 1950s' pieces than buy new works. The costs of handcrafting glass in the *6os and '70s prompted the larger glass companies to shy away from the complex glass forms and turn to a more functionalist style. The whole concept of 'design' had become rather elitist. While today good design is back in fashion, the glass works are only producing a fraction of the output in their heyday. All of which makes collecting Murano a sensible bet.

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Clay Tobacco Pipes

Clay Tobacco Pipes

Once tobacco was introduced to Europe pipe smoking took off at an astounding rate and along with it the manufacture of pipes in profuse quantities. The rise in popularity of smoking grew even against staunch opposition from eminent people of the day. James I was one of the first anti-smokers and his dislike of the habit was to the extreme, in 1603 he wrote his famous 'Counterblaste to tobacco'... "make a kitchen oftentimes in the inward parts of men, soyling and infecting them with an unctuous and oily kind of soot as hath been found in some great tobacco takers that after death were opened. A custom loathsome to the eye, harmful to the brain and dangerous to the lungs." His hatred of smoking prompted him to raise the duty on tobacco .

Clay Tobacco Pipes

This high cost of tobacco in the earlier years meant that the bowls of the pipes were small, as the years progressed tobacco became, in effect, cheaper so pipe bowls increased in size, and an experienced collector can date a pipe by the size of the bowl. By the early 18th century a standard size for the bowl had been reached and pipes had also become more upright as smokers stored them in pipe racks by using the then fashionable spur on the pipe.



Prior to this pipes had a flat heel or base enabling them to be rested on the table, another factor that helps the collector determine the age of a pipe. Many examples of pipe bowls and pipes were very ornate and indeed illustrate many facets of everyday life experienced by their original owners.

Clay Tobacco Pipes

Because pipe smoking became such a popular activity and clay pipes were cheap and easy to produce it has meant that many were just thrown away once they became dirty or broken, the stem being the most usual breaking point, hence mainly only bowls are to be found. Smokers could easily afford to buy their pipes by the dozen or gross and throw them out regularly. Now we find pieces and whole bowls of the many, many thousands of pipes that  were made in all places that people have inhabited during the past 400 years.






Good hunting ground for pipes are bottle fairs and auctions. Many pipe bowls are found by bottle collectors whilst digging old Victorian and Edwardian dumps and are sold off by them as they are not of interest to their particular collection.

Clay Tobacco Pipes

To the novice it may seem odd that so many pipes can be found in our fields and gardens, we all appreciate that the Victorians used dumps but why the unearthing of so many examples elsewhere? Prior to sewerage systems being implemented rubbish and sewage would have been collected during the night and spread in fields, this was known as 'night soil', with this muck would have been many discarded tobacco pipes which would have sunk into the soil to be unearthed in years to come.
Pipes had been modeled by hand to begin with but it wasn't long before man was able to create moulds, usually of two parts, to produce the pipes. But there were still delicate procedures involved in finishing the pipes, for instance a wire had to be guided through a hole at the end of the mould to hollow out the stem, but go too far and it would pierce straight through the bowl. The pipes had to be fired for the right time too,







over firing would result in brittle clay that would break too easily. Yet even with these problems a skilled pipe maker could produce several hundred pipes per day resulting in a cheap commodity that was easily discarded once used.The very early pipes had been plain with a simple line of rouletting or milling around the bowl, but by Victorian times they had embraced the ability to produce pipes that were highly ornate. They went about depicting almost every subject matter imaginable including
commemoratives, such as politicians, comics of the day, heraldic and military emblems plus
all sorts of other subjects like animals, sports or even everyday household items. Many pipes can be found with registration marks or numbers which was an attempt by the larger factories to protect their designs from their competitors.

Clay Tobacco Pipes

Some of the more ornate pipes would have been more expensive to buy than others and may have been kept for 'best' or used by the 'well-off'. The most accomplished ornate pipe makers were the French, their three most famous factories were Fiolet, Gambier and Dumeril. Collectors search out French pipes, as some are very intricate and colourful by the use of enamels to highlight their designs.                                      

As with all collectibles, it is important to learn as much as you can before buying.

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Collecting M&M Dispensers

Collecting M&M Dispensers

M&M's memorabilia covers all sorts of things. Firstly, there are the plastic dispensers that have the sweets inside of them, of which there are the round shape (like the chocolate M&M) or the oval shape (like the peanut M&M), in various colors just like the sweets and in different sizes. Then, there are also many various 'toppers' which are the characters that come off the top of the tubes which hold the sweets.




Most importantly however, from a collectors point of view, there are many other items which have been available across the World which the UK collector may be totally unaware of. Such items include soft toys, computer games, calculators, alarm clocks, die-cast cars, duvet covers, T-shirts, pencils, beanies, you name it more or less anything you can think of has been produced with M&M's on it. For instance a very interesting facet to M&M collecting is available in France, the 'Pochette Surprises'.

Collecting M&M Dispensers

 These could easily form a collection on their own, "They are very cute and an unusual addition to any M&M collection, there are over 250 of these small 'Pochette Surprise' M&M characters to collect. They come in a strip of three and each part has some M&M candy inside and a round plastic M&M container similar to a Kinder egg. Inside of the container is one of  the characters, some you put together, some are ready made figures, or maybe you'll find something like an M&M puzzle." These Pochette Surprises were bought in the UK for £1- £2 each, whilst US collectors would have paid from $3-$8  £2-£5 for them.

Collecting M&M Dispensers

For the novice obviously yard sales/car boots will be a good source to hunt for past M&M memorabilia, expect to pay $3-$8 £2-£5 for an early loose dispenser, or as much as$30- £20 if it is mint in its box. Bear in mind though, that we saw 10", 7"and 3" dispensers here, released in both the round and peanut shape. The 10" was made in red, green, yellow and a harder to find blue, the character is waving and when his arm is pulled down it activates a lever mechanism which dispenses the sweet into his hand. American collectors will pay over $200 for the blue dispenser as he was never available in the States.  There are very similar 10" dispensers available in Europe although their faces are different to the ones we had, more like the US dispensers.

Collecting M&M Dispensers

The old 7" and 3" dispensers that the UK had have an opening on their backs to get the sweets out of. These two smaller dispensers were released with the characters 'doing' various things like kicking a football or holding something such as a Christmas present, many different ones can be found in red, green, yellow and orange plus there were also 3" versions in brown and blue. The blue round version is very hard to find and the blue peanut was only released in Australia. Of the toppers we saw here there are many to took out for, they are on a white, square base in various colours and were produced around various themes such as Valentines, the World Cup and the Olympics. UK collectors will expect to pay £1 to a £5 for loose toppers, but if they are mint on their tube this could rise up to £10. The more established American market sees collectors paying $5 upwards for a loose topper.

Collecting m&m dispensers

The US M&M merchandise, dispensers and toppers are all different to those found in Europe. For instance the US has seen various wacky dispensers released including the round 'Baseball' player M&M released in '95, he is orange with a blue baseball cap and his sweets are dispensed into his baseball glove when his arm is pulled down. UK collectors will pay between £25-
£50  $30 - $60  for dispensers like him and for the blue peanut 'Blues'dispenser they had in '98! He has removable sunglasses and plays the saxophone, when his arms are pulled down his
sweets fall out from his stomach! There've been various others  a 'Couch Potato' M&M , a M&M yellow peanut man sitting in an armchair with his remote control.

Collecting m&m  dispensers

The US also has dispensers for the mini M&M's (smaller versions of the sweets) and not only are there plastic dispensers for these but also dispensers that are a soft toy too. This is manufactured by Swarmee and UK collectors will pay around $15- £10 to get one of these. There are other soft toy M&M's to look out for as the US has had several different companies that produce them.


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COLLECTING THE SIMPSONS

COLLECTING THE SIMPSONS

Springfield's very own twisted yellow first family is now shown in over 100 countries around the world and has proven to be one of the most successful animated television series of all time.
What makes the show so very different from other mainstream programmes is the biting humour and broad appeal to both children and adults. For many, it can be appreciated on many different levels. The success of the show has brought with it an almost Disney sized merchandising bonanza. However, there has been comparatively little discussion or examination of these more often than not colourful collectibles.

Without doubt

The Simpsons is a exceptional creative achievement and has  reached far beyond the bounds of normal animation with catchphrases and expressions now part of our culture. Cartoonist Matt Groening was the incredible talent behind the project's genesis. He was originally approached to develop an animated variant of his well-regarded cartoon strip called Life in Hell. This was planned to be part of the high rating Tracey Ullman show. Groening offered something fresh and new to protect his cartoon strip if the animated outing was duff. He came I up with a cast of yellow characters and named them after his very own family! His mum Margaret became the long-suffering " large, his father is named Homer, and he ..as sisters named Maggie and Lisa.

COLLECTING THE SIMPSONS

After 48 Ullman short . appearances, the first half hour show with the K Simpsons, a Christmas special, aired on 17th December, 1989. That was history - now each 20 minute episode of The Simpsons can take over six months to create, at a cost of perhaps $1.5 million. It is a huge endeavor.
By 1997, according to the Daily Mail  newspaper, global revenue from Simpsons merchandising alone was around $3 billion which can only have risen in more recent years. It is almost impossible to describe the truly vast market there is for fan and collector. It is almost unending and. by and large, colourful and quite affordable. Of course there are a few Holy Grails: like a Japanese lunchbox which has sold for $350! Most of the current collectibles and toys are produced by US manufacturers .




The real boom time was 1990/91. In the first season of the show Fox, supposedly signed over 100 U.S. licensing agreements which is quite substantial by any standard.  There was as a result, an element of overkill and by the mid 1990s, there were a handful of products to buy out there.
The mainstay of the Simpsons collecting world must be the figures and playsets. Playmates Toys are one of the main manufacturers and are considered by some to have helped revive the merchandising along with Fox, going for quality products.

COLLECTING THE SIMPSONS

Their 5" figures have been keenly collected ) since they first appeared in 2000. They have covered almost every one of the characters too - over 130 so far! Quite a few have been produced as a mail in only and are even rarer. One of their unique selling points is the ability to take advantage of voice technology with their IntelliTronic system. It makes the figures speak when placed into the correct playset.







Talking of playsets - there have been many created by Playmates. My favourite is the Springfeild Main Street set. The display box alone is nearly 20" x 17" in size! It is an expensive and highly detailed toy with many recognisable features such as Moe's Bar and Lardlad Donuts. It sells second hand for around &80 right now.

COLLECTING THE SIMPSONS

The values of some of the Playmates items has started to creep up despite not being limited. However, the really hot Simpson's figures, price-wise, are the very early ones produced in 1990 by Mattel. In the early days, most of the mass produced merchandise was Bart related. With Mattel's line, the whole family were depicted. Maggie and Lisa are the tough finds and cost$25 -$50  £20 - £35 each today. Mattel also made wind-up toys. As always, mint condition for the toy and the packaging is essential for getting the best price today.


Also, look for limited-edition figures like the 2001 World of Springfield Radioactive Homer. It originally retailed for $10 in the USA but today it can be worth $130.

No cartoon's cultural dominance quest would be complete without a tie-in with a fast food restaurant chain. Fox, who have the Simpsons rights, have had several deals in the past, but Burger King has been the longest running. There are plenty of highly affordable items to track down. The dolls released are affordable at around $15- £10 in a sealed bag. As ever, lots of trading takes place on
internet auction sites.

Dolls have also been a mainstay of the business. UK company Vivid Imaginations have been one of biggest producers. The Talking Homer from 1997/8 is an 18" soft toy and trades for around £35 on the net in it's original packaging. The Talking Bart is worth a little less. Both are great toys to look out for.

COLLECTING THE SIMPSONS

High end prices tend to be for the unique, limited run or one-off items. A good example would be an illustrated script signed by Matt Groening himself. 'H', one of the members of the British  pop band Steps paid $4500- £3000 at a charity auction at Planet Hollywood in 2001. By their very nature, charity events tend to see items receive generous bids, but it does give the collector an insight into the type of money required to get into the serious Simpons fan territory.



Some of the very finest memorabilia is supposedly kept by Groening himself. On display outside of his office must be the ultimate item of Simpsons ephemera -a framed letter from the former first lady of the USA - Barbara Bush, dated 1990. Bush famously publicly criticised the Simpsons and this letter is part of the correspondence between the show's creator and Mrs.Bush. Later, the Bushes were featured as characters in the show: thev became residents of Springfeild in one most memorable episodes!

COLLECTING THE SIMPSONS

Original artwork

Each episode of the Simpsons contains about twenty-four thousand individual drawings, or eels.
The prices vary but usually £200 - S.350 will secure a fine and authenticated original production eel from the actual show. The size of the image tends to be 6.5" height by 9.5" across. If the, are mounted and framed, they will cost you a bit more. There are plenty of sources on the internet for collectors to acquire them.If the price is a little too high there are also various types of limited edition artwork on offer.

 Limited editions

COLLECTING THE SIMPSONS

There is a particularly buoyant market in good quality statues, busts, 'environments' and figurines.
Sideshow Collectables produce the highly popular l/5th scale Polystone busts of the various characters including Homer - usually costing around $50-£30 each. There are also limited edition models which come and go - such as Comic Book Guy. These are good quality collectibles for the fan.



Hamilton Action produce a huge array of different Simpsons statues, again, many of which are limited edition. Called the Springfield Citizens Sculpture Collection Many of these depict scenes which will be familiar to us all - for example, for around$30- £20, you could buy Oh Cruel Fate - a hand- painted depiction of Homer on his knees in front of an empty fridge!
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