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<p>[QUOTE="BaseballGames, post: 9760835, member: 7826"]Ghastly to know (we've known for many years) that these can barely be given away anymore -- our mum (now in her 90s) has dozens and dozens of Hummels, all received by her as Christmas or birthday presents from us or our late dad, when each one of them cost us in the $100.-$200. range at upscale stores in the 1960s through the early '90s, and all of them still with huge sentimental value to her (and to us, too, at least to the extent that $100. was, to 1960s schoolboys, a fortune, which we coulda spent on more comic books -- which at least have significant value now to comix collectors!). </p><p>Offhand, we can't put any exact date on the three you're showing (mum would know precisely when she got each), but we know she has all three examples in the standard size (the one on the left looks like the "small" version, the middle one the "large," that on the right the "standard"), and obtained each of them earlier than the mid-1970s...[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="BaseballGames, post: 9760835, member: 7826"]Ghastly to know (we've known for many years) that these can barely be given away anymore -- our mum (now in her 90s) has dozens and dozens of Hummels, all received by her as Christmas or birthday presents from us or our late dad, when each one of them cost us in the $100.-$200. range at upscale stores in the 1960s through the early '90s, and all of them still with huge sentimental value to her (and to us, too, at least to the extent that $100. was, to 1960s schoolboys, a fortune, which we coulda spent on more comic books -- which at least have significant value now to comix collectors!). Offhand, we can't put any exact date on the three you're showing (mum would know precisely when she got each), but we know she has all three examples in the standard size (the one on the left looks like the "small" version, the middle one the "large," that on the right the "standard"), and obtained each of them earlier than the mid-1970s...[/QUOTE]
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