Vintage Ultra Rare 1960s Union Carbide King Carbide Award Advertising Figure

  

6 tall metal award statue. During the'60s Union Carbide, a chemical company also made casings for sausages. King Carbide was created as an employee award.

The gold colored metal statue is made in the likeness of a sausage wearing a long coat, vest and bow tie with a crown on his top. Amazing piece of advertising history. The bottom was screwed on to a black marble base. The marble base is missing. This is a very hard to find piece - you can view it Warren Dotz' excellent book WHAT A CHARACTER - page 94. The king is solid metal. It has patina and has surface oxidation.