Rare GI Joe Wal-Mart File Cards (Autographed-Very Rare)

[cdfergu]

For Sale: A set of 5 out of 6 Rare Wal-Mart GI Joe File Cards is for sell, all five autographed. Includes one of Sam Walton founder of Wal-Mart and one of David Glass another Wal-Mart Exec whom also owns the KC Royals. If you are interested in these as a set or just as (one) feel free to contact me at cdfergu@gmail.com this will be the only contact I will respond to. Please have a idea of an offer in mind. If you feel that you would like one of these cards donated to a child please send me a reason on why and I will take it under consideration. The offer for these items to be sold and or donated will expire 30 days from today 03/09/10. Each card will have a reserve bid of at least $750.00. One card out of the (full set) is missing which I do not have. At the end of the 30 days a decision will be made on the sale, donation and or removel of items to be listed in this offer. The ending date and time for this offer will be 4/8/2010 12:00pm US Central.


Interesting Facts about the Cards:

• Created to represent top executives of Wal-Mart during this time of 1990 from Hasbro as a promotion. These filecards where not sold to general public but issued to Store Managers. Most were not keep and destroyed and or lost.

• The Ultimate Guide to G.I. Joe 1982-1994 listing shows these Cards to be Rare.

• These specific cards came from the Bentonville Arkansas the area of the Wal-Mart Home Office location.

• Each filecard at the bottom states the following “The name ------ does identify a known, living person.”

• Each filecard was laminated after they were autographed in 1990.

• Sam Walton’s filecard was encapsulated in glass and on display at Walton’s 5 & 10 museum for a short time after his death in Bentonville Arkansas.

• Mr. Walton was awarded numinous awards world wide including the Medal of Freedom Award honored by President George Bush Sr.

• He was listed as one of the wealthiest men in the world and the retail chain that he began is still the largest in the world.

• These I have been told that these are the rarest of the rare and possibly the only ones that were autographed. After the display in the Walton’s 5 & 10 these were taken out of public view.

• As stated above Mr. Glass along with the others were members of the executive staff of Wal-Mart during that time. He now owns the K.C. Chief’s.

• Current listing for Samual M. Walton's autograph on ebay under "historydirect" shows a value of approximately $4,500.00.

[UnKnownSnowTrooper]

Whos autograph is on the filecards.

Thanks

[Lt. Night Viper]

Whos autograph is on the filecards.

Thanks

Probably by the people who the characters on the cards are based on....

[FireFox91]

Do you have any pictures of the cards?

[just_joes_by_mike]

If you feel that you would like one of these cards donated to a child please send me a reason on why and I will take it under consideration. The offer for these items to be sold and or donated will expire 30 days from today 03/09/10. Each card will have a reserve bid of at least $750.00.

For clarification, what would a child want with these? I think I know the set you are referring to and it is very rare. I believe they only handed them out at a board meeting or something like that. Would not seem like a good thing to give to a child, being so valuable and all.

[UnKnownSnowTrooper]

They where given to the regional managers if i remember right.