EIGHT FORMER U.S. PRESIDENT FIGURINES MARX NEVER MADE + DISPLAY STAND

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THE EIGHT FORMER U.S. PRESIDENTS
THAT MARX NEVER MADE
GERALD FORD, JIMMY CARTER, RONALD REAGAN, GEORGE BUSH, BILL CLINTON, GEORGE W. BUSH, BARACK OBAMA, DONALD TRUMP
8 Individually and Sequentially Numbered Figurines
Plus
FIVE-TIERED DISPLAY STAND
This
listing is for a set of 8 hand-painted, injection molded plastic figurines of the 38th through 45th Presidents of the U.S., made to look like the 3 inch Marx Presidents
figurines of the 1950s and ’60s.
Tens of thousands of
presidential figurines made by the Marx Toy Company were sold over the
years.  Thousands of these vintage collectors items have appeared on
eBay as individual listings and in sets, with the most recent president
being Richard Nixon.  Infrequently, the rare Ronald Reagan figure
appears (made when he was a candidate for president in 1968).  Because
Marx was sold in 1972, they never made figurines of presidents Gerald
Ford, Jimmy Carter, George Bush, Bill Clinton, George W. Bush,
Barack Obama, Donald Trump or Joe Biden
.  Starting in 2003, collector Patric M. Verrone
began producing figurines in the Marx tradition.  Thousands of these new
figurines have been produced and have been featured in
WIRED Magazine
(www.wired.com/2009/10/st-verrone-futurama/)
and
The New Yorker
(www.newyorker.com/magazine/2017/03/06/a-comedy-writer-makes-trump-collectibles).
Like
the vintage Marx product, these figurines are each about 3 inches tall (60mm),
machine cast in plastic, and painted with enamel paint.  The last name of the president appears on the front of the base.  On the back of the base,
raised letters say the president’s number and the years of his term.
(The exception is Donald Trump –
the back
of that base has an adhesive sticker on which is printed, “45TH
2017-21.”)
Unlike the Marx figurines, each
figurine is individually and sequentially numbered on a sticker on the
bottom of the base.
Also
available is a plastic display stand, designed in the manner of the
Styrofoam stand that accompanied the 1970 releases of the Marx sets.
It is molded out of vacuum-formed plastic, and can hold 45 figurines when the plastic pillars are in place.  When the pillars are removed, the stand can hold up to 49 figurines.  These stands are individually and
sequentially numbered.  A listing photo shows an entire Marx President Set, from
George Washington to Joe Biden, displayed on the stand
.
Other listing photos show the dimensions of the stand.
NOTE: Only the eight former presidents are included in this package.  A figurine of Joe Biden is available only through eBay auctions.
Elsewhere
in my eBay store, figurines of Vice President Kamala Harris, presidential candidates, Supreme Court
justices, and other Famous Americans designed in the Marx tradition will be available in the weeks to
come.