Lladro Catalogs & Guide

LARGE LOT OF LLADR COLLECTOR LITERATURE - EXPRESSIONS AND PRIVILEGE MAGAZINES, DEALER BROCHURES, SOCIETY MAILINGS, AND THE 1993 OFFICIAL IDENTIFICATION CATALOG AND PRICE GUIDE A thick accumulation of Lladr porcelain collector paper, assembled by one collector over roughly a decade and offered here as a single lot. The centerpiece for reference purposes is the softbound THE OFFICIAL LLADR COLLECTION IDENTIFICATION CATALOG AND PRICE GUIDE, First Edition: 1993, Dr. Glenn S. Johnson, The Lladr Collectors Society - a fat photo-illustrated volume that lists figurines by item number with sculptor, issue and retirement dates, size, and market values, still the standard starting point for anyone trying to identify a Lladr piece from the base mark and shape. Stacked with it are multiple issues of the society magazine EXPRESSIONS (issues visible include the Sports edition, the Christmas international edition, and a Members Party issue, with spine lines reading Vol. 15 No. 3 1999, Vol. 16 No. 1 2000, Vol. 16 No. 2 2000, and Vol. 16 No. 3 2000), the glossy quarterly LLADR PRIVILEGE - THE BEST OF TIMES, an issue of LLADR VISTA, a run of seasonal dealer brochures including 1999 Spring Lladr Collections, a "Wishing You A Peaceful Mother's Day" mailer, THE FANTASY COLLECTION unveiling flyer with a nationwide dealer event schedule, the LLADR FANTASY CIRCUS brochure, and a multi-page THE LLADR PERSONALIZATION PROGRAM item-number list. There are also loose price sheets, membership correspondence on Lladr letterhead, and assorted single-sheet inserts throughout the stack. This is the sort of group that Lladr dealers, appraisers, estate sellers, and serious collectors buy for the identification data and the retired-piece imagery, and it also gives a paper-ephemera buyer a decade of very handsomely photographed 1990s and 2000s marketing material. Bidders following the book and paper lots in this sale should also review the other hardback, cookbook, and recipe file groups. Note this is a used working reference stack with cover wear, curling, and some staining as detailed below, and it has not been collated or counted issue by issue. Sold as a lot of all printed material pictured. Description Price guide: softbound, front cover reads "The Official Lladr Collection Identification Catalog and Price Guide / First Edition: 1993 / Dr. Glenn S. Johnson" with "The Lladr Collectors Society" at the foot, cover illustrated with a clown figure and a coach-and-horses group; spine printed "LLADR." Interior pages photographed show grid layouts of black-and-white figurine photographs with item numbers, descriptions, issue and retirement notes, sizes, and dollar values, plus category-introduction text discussing how Lladr organizes its figure groups. Expressions magazines: large-format glossy society magazines. Covers photographed include the Sports issue with a golfer figurine, the Christmas international edition with a Nativity group and barcode "37859 81072," and a Members Party issue with a flower-arch mother-and-child figurine and cover lines "Spring Is In The Air! / Mystical Garden / Return The Tenderness / The Lladr Society Tours Of Spain Are Almost Under Way! / Romance In Motion... / The Lladr Assurance Program / Signing Event Calendar / Join Us At The International Collectible Exposition." Spine imprints legible in the stacked photographs read "EXPRESSIONS Vol. 15 No. 3 1999," "EXPRESSIONS Vol. 16 No. 1 2000," "EXPRESSIONS Vol. 16 No. 2 2000," and "EXPRESSIONS Vol. 16 No. 3 2000." Interior spreads photographed include a "SPRING IS IN THE AIR! 2000" new-introductions feature with figurine names and dimensions, a signed director's letter, and a full-page feature headed "THERE IS SOMETHING MYSTERIOUS THAT DEVELOPS BETWEEN AN ARTWORK AND THE VIEWER" with a section subheaded "MY LITTLE SWEETY." Lladr Privilege: glossy magazine, cover reads "LLADR PRIVILEGE" and "THE BEST OF TIMES," cover photograph of a clown-on-motorcycle group with a lamb. Dealer and event brochures: a fanned group photographed includes a 1999 SPRING LLADR COLLECTIONS brochure, a "Wishing You A Peaceful Mother's Day" brochure, and a wide-format brochure with a mother-and-child figurine on an interior table setting. A separate stapled piece is headed "THE FANTASY COLLECTION IS ABOUT TO BE UNVEILED AT A DEALER NEAR YOU!" with a two-column "LLADR FANTASY COLLECTION EVENT LOCATIONS" table of dates, cities, states, dealer names, and telephone numbers, facing a full-page "ANTICIPATION" figurine photograph marked "THE FANTASY COLLECTION" and "NAO VANGUARD EXCLUSIVE." A gold-bordered "LLADR FANTASY CIRCUS" brochure and a white-orchid cover brochure are also present. Society mailings and lists: a Lladr letterhead sheet imprinted at the foot "1 Lladr Drive, Moonachie, New Jersey 07074 800.634.9088", addressed to Lladr Privilege members and announcing "the first issue of Lladr Vista, a new bi-annual publication" and the coming "premiere issue of Lladr Privil