This is an Introductory Edition Tobin Fraley, produced in 1986. This piece came with a rectangular brass base (item
#5045), and also with an oak music-box base, with a porcelain canopy held up by two brass poles (item #5037). This piece
is about 7" to the top of the pole, (and about 12"-13" to the top of the canopied-base figure, though the animal is the same
size in both cases). The brass base had a production run of 15,000 and the canopied-base figure had a production run
of 9500 total.
The average price of this piece when new was $50-$100 (depending on which base it was on).
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