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Here’s an insider heads up about something you’ll see for sale in the near future. And as is often the case around the Beckett office, I stumbled on it by accident.

I’m walking down the hallway a few minutes ago and I glance into this little room in which we shoot studio photos – Co-Worker Daniel calls it a digital studio. In the magazines, when you see those photos of boxes of cards, die-cast items, SLUs, and other inanimate objects . . . that would be Daniel’s handiwork. (We use a scanner for most card images.)

So anyway, there on a table sits an army of original Hartland Statues, the ones from the late 1950s and early 1960s. All of them have original bats and their feet are hardly scuffed — two attributes that discriminating collectors look for on Hartlands. Choice items, indeed.

I checked with Co-Worker Dave, who said he just got them on consignment locally from a personal collection (an estate sale). After the statues are photographed tomorrow, they’ll be auctioned online in by Beckett Select auctions.

I went ahead and snapped a couple of photos, thinking what a dork I looked like bending down and getting reeeeeeeeeeeeal close to Little Willie (above).

When I saw the photos came out OK, I went back to take a few more but the statues had already been wheeled away to the vault.

Dave says they will sell individually. Any guesses as to what the Mantle or Aaron will sell for?