Wade Ceramics Glazed Porcelain Tourist I Love NY Figurine Buffalo Fair Special 1998 Boxed

A glazed porcelain figurine manufactured by Wade Ceramics for the Official International Wade Collectors Club. This piece was released as a special edition for a collectors fair held in Buffalo, New York, in 1998. The figure depicts a male tourist character dressed in a blue t-shirt featuring the red and black I heart NY logo, black trousers, and red shoes. He wears a black baseball cap backwards and carries a brown camera bag over his shoulder. The figurine is mounted on a circular green base. The underside of the base features the circular stamp of THE OFFICIAL INTERNATIONAL COLLECTORS CLUB surrounding the WADE name in red, with the printed text BUFFALO FAIR SPECIAL and the year 1998. The item is accompanied by its original white cardboard box, which displays the Wade logo in red with a black outline.