Boyd's
Nativity Series
The
"Nativity" series, also known as the "School Pageant" began
in 1995 and was retired in 1999. In all, there were sixteen
figures issued in groups of four beginning with the first series in
1995 which included "The Stage", "Neville as Joseph", "Theresa as Mary"
and "Baldwin as the Baby Jesus". The second series of figures
was issued in 1996 and included "Wilson as Melchoir", "Heath as Caspar"
"Raleigh as Balthasar" and "Thatcher and Eden as the Camel".
The third series was issued in 1997 and included "Essex as the Donkey",
Winkie and Dink as the lambs", Bruce as the Shepherd" and "Ariel and
Clarence as the Pair O' Angels". The fourth and final series
was issued in 1998 and included " Caledonia as the Narrator", "Ms.
Bruin as the Teacher", "Matthew as the Drummer" and "Serendipity as the
Guardian Angel". Over the years, as new figures were
added, the existing figures continued to be produced each
year. This will help to explain why there are more figures
available in the first series than there are for the second series and
more first and second than third. The fourth series of
figures were only produced for about two years and there are not as
many of those available as the are for the other series
figures. Since there are fewer of the fourth series figures,
they usually are valued a little higher than the others.
There
appears to be a little confusion for many concerning the edition
numbers of these figures. On the bottom of each figure there
will be a number such as 1E/1,750. The first number is the
Edition number and the second number represents the number of the
figure within that edition. In this example, this
figure would be the 1,750th figure produced in the first
edition. Each Edition of these figures has 7,200
pieces. This means there are only 7,200 1E figures, 7,200 2E
figures and so on for as many editions as there are. Some
figures have edition numbers that range all the way to 20E+.
The first three editions have higher value than the the other figures
do. All figures that are 4E and higher have the same
value. Most people will buy the lowest edition figure they
can find when they arrive in the stores because they all sell for the
same price regardless of the edition number. However, once
they are retired, the lower edition figures become much more valuable
than the higher edition figures.