April 12, 2024
Sterling Silver Donald Duck Going Fishing Figurine / Philip Kraczkowski #1 of LE
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Up for auction is an extremely rare Sterling Silver Figurine of Donald Duck Going Fishing made by the renowned sculpturer Philip Kraczkowski. It depicts Donald Duck with a fishing rod and can of worms. It contains 21.8 ounces (over 1.5 lbs) of Sterling Silver. Incredibly, this is #1 of the limited edition (read more about this below). In 1971, the Hallo division of Hallmark commissioned Philip Kraczkowski to make a series of Sterling Silver sculptures depicting various Disney characters to commemorate the opening of Walt Disney World. They were sold by mail and needed to be pre-ordered. Each figurine cost $300 (equivalent of approximately $1700 today). Up to 5000 of each sculpture were commissioned to be made but given how expensive they were in 1971 and how rare they are today, I would expect that very few were ever actually cast. The first one of Mickey Mouse and Pluto (#1) was given to the Disney family. You could reserve the same number for each other figurine, so it is possible that this one (also #1) was at one time owned by the Disney family (we purchased it at an estate auction about 10 years ago). As far as we know, only the first two figurines in the series were made: (i) Mickey Mouse and Pluto and (ii) Donald Duck Going Fishing. The figurine measures approximately 4 3/4" in heights and 3 5/8" wide at the base. The figurine
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