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YOGI BERRA HARTLAND ASHTRAY

Today's Blog entry was inspired by our good friend and Hartland expert Fred McKie. For several years he has told us about an ashtray that was given to select employees of Yoo-Hoo. As many of you may already know, Berra was Yoo-Hoo's main endorser during the late 50's through the 60's. In our current auction (Fall 2008) we are featuring as our #1 item, an advertising clock from Yoo-Hoo that has his likeness.

The ashtray had an attached Yogi Berra Hartland statue on one end. The ashtrays are super rare(this is the only one we've seen in over 25 years in the hobby). Much like the Mantle Hartland lamp, we suspect that they used excess statues to make these customized pieces. As far as value, it is impossible to gauge what they could fetch in an auction scenerio.