contender
Ruger Guru
YEE-HAW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Glad to see a real collector get it! Way to go Rick!
Glad to see a real collector get it! Way to go Rick!
Alexander Sturm Problem Fox figurine ( pictures added )
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circlergrugers
Vaquero
Very nice Rick, very nice, a perfect home
RSIno1
Hunter
No more so than people finding these little $3 planters from 1930s Catalina Island's pottery company pulling $1100+jimbo1096 said:
http://austincatalina.com/pgo1/picture.php?/2475/category/2
T.A. WORKMAN
Hunter
Rick,
Glad you were able to add it to the pile :wink: ,thanks for sharing the info & pictures.
Terry
Glad you were able to add it to the pile :wink: ,thanks for sharing the info & pictures.
Terry
Heckuva score . . . congrats!
Out of curiosity, can you identify the type of metal used on the cast versions?
Out of curiosity, can you identify the type of metal used on the cast versions?
chet15
Hawkeye
RSIno1 said:
Who'd have thunk it?
Chet15
chet15
Hawkeye
Ale-8(1) said:
Myself, I think it is potmetal. Not very durable at all.
The one I had somebody dropped it with the tail hitting a hard surface and it bent and cracked at the crease between the fox's back and its tail.
Chet15
chet15
Hawkeye
Note the neck on the auction pictures how it looks like it was almost an afterthought that the neck area be slimmed down...almost looks done after-the-fact.
But that slim neck made it to the final production pieces.
Neat stuff!!
Chet15
But that slim neck made it to the final production pieces.
Neat stuff!!
Chet15
radicalrod
Hunter
Rick, that is awesome.....I'm just a little envious but looks like it found a good home...RR
RPM Enterprises
Buckeye
Hey Rodney I can give your little guy a good home as well. You're right, they are one of the holy grails but that original sculpture is priceless. I would like to get seven of the metal ones, each one representing the characters in the book.
radicalrod
Hunter
My FOX taint going no wears......no PROBLEMO..... :mrgreen: :mrgreen: :mrgreen:
contender
Ruger Guru
SEVEN of them? A bit greedy are we????? 
Definitely a neat piece.
How could it authenticated?
How could it authenticated?
chet15
Hawkeye
Now if one of the large size foxes would show up.
Chet15
Chet15
RPM Enterprises
Buckeye
Would like to find one. There is also a poster. Wonder how many of the little guys are out there? I can think of four, but there maybe five not counting mine.chet15 said:
rugnelli said:
Are there "questionable" ones out there?
Guess I shouldn't be surprised if so.
:roll:
chet15
Hawkeye
How could it be authenticated?
Good question, because everybody is long gone.
The one thing I would keep with the sculpture fox would be a copy of the auction itself, because there was no inkling whatsoever in the desrcription that it might be a rare piece, and no history about Sturm himself....It was just a name on the bottom of the sculpture to whoever it was that sold it...didn't mean anything evidently. And, it was sold with two other miniature figurines. I believe they were completely oblivious to whether any of the three figurines had any value.
Maybe somebody will eventually find who the maker of the hollow metal foxes.
Time is the enemy however.
Chet15
Good question, because everybody is long gone.
The one thing I would keep with the sculpture fox would be a copy of the auction itself, because there was no inkling whatsoever in the desrcription that it might be a rare piece, and no history about Sturm himself....It was just a name on the bottom of the sculpture to whoever it was that sold it...didn't mean anything evidently. And, it was sold with two other miniature figurines. I believe they were completely oblivious to whether any of the three figurines had any value.
Maybe somebody will eventually find who the maker of the hollow metal foxes.
Time is the enemy however.
Chet15
RPM Enterprises
Buckeye
Chad, when I contacted the seller she had said it came from an estate that the person collected chuhauha figurines. She assumed that is what it was. She did not know who Sturm was and had little time to research, what little she did she found nothing. She was shocked what it sold for. I have kept all our emails for future reference. If I remember correctly it came out of Pennsylvania.
chet15
Hawkeye
RPM Enterprises said:
Yes, Pennsylvania is correct.
Chet15
