Department 56 EMPIRE STATE BUILDING & ORNAMENT Christmas in the City (59207) EUC. Details : Items 39207 and 59408. Outer box has a tear and some wear. This item is from a very large collection of Department 56 items that were very well cared for. The collection included quite a few new / unopened items. All displayed items were inspected before being boxed up and any. Deficiencies or flaws noticed are noted in the condition notes above. The original owners did have a labrador retriever so there could be some light dander on the boxes or items, however, this collection was under plastic for the past few years and the owners kept the collection very clean. That some of the pictures on the Department 56 boxes show the figures or items with accessories (trees, snow, etc) that may not be included. Please see the pictures and ask any questions you may have before purchasing. Also, we do offer. In some cases but it depends on the size and weight of items. Department 56 was founded in 1976. Originally, it was part of Bachman’s, a retail florist based in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Bachman’s employed a numbering system to identify each of its departments. The number assigned to the wholesale gift imports division was 56. He was a talented employee of Bachman’s who won the Minnesota State Florist Association’s 1964 Designer of the Year competition. Bazinet was a 1996 Gift for Life honoree for his support to HIV/AIDS research, education, prevention, and treatment. In 2005, after purchasing Lenox from Brown-Forman, the company changed its name to “Lenox Group Inc” and its ticker symbol to “LNX”. Lenox filed for bankruptcy in 2009, and was acquired by the private equity firm Clarion Capital Partners. Enesco acquired Department 56 from Lenox that year. The Egg Nog Pub. Department 56 has been headquartered in Eden Prairie, Minnesota since June 25, 1991. As of May 2015, the company had about 30 employees, and its sales had grown seven to eleven percent per year over the prior four years. About two-thirds of sales are via smaller gift and Christmas shops, but the most recent growth has been through national retail stores, with Amazon also among the biggest customers. The item “Department 56 EMPIRE STATE BUILDING & ORNAMENT Christmas in the City (59207) EUC” is in sale since Monday, May 6, 2019. This item is in the category “Collectibles\Decorative Collectibles\Decorative Collectible Brands\Department 56\Dickens Village\Buildings”. The seller is “thedenverbookcase” and is located in Wheat Ridge, Colorado. This item can be shipped to United States, Canada, United Kingdom, Denmark, Romania, Slovakia, Bulgaria, Czech republic, Finland, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Malta, Estonia, Australia, Greece, Portugal, Cyprus, Slovenia, Japan, China, Sweden, South Korea, Indonesia, Taiwan, Thailand, Belgium, France, Hong Kong, Ireland, Netherlands, Poland, Spain, Italy, Germany, Austria, Bahamas, Israel, Mexico, New Zealand, Singapore, Switzerland, Norway, Saudi arabia, Ukraine, United arab emirates, Qatar, Kuwait, Bahrain, Croatia, Malaysia, Chile, Colombia, Costa rica, Panama, Trinidad and tobago, Guatemala, Honduras, Jamaica, Barbados, Bangladesh, Bermuda, Brunei darussalam, Bolivia, Egypt, French guiana, Guernsey, Gibraltar, Guadeloupe, Iceland, Jersey, Jordan, Cambodia, Cayman islands, Liechtenstein, Sri lanka, Luxembourg, Monaco, Macao, Martinique, Maldives, Nicaragua, Oman, Pakistan, Paraguay, Reunion, Uruguay.