Wooden Oscars.

[styley]

Apparently during World War 2 the Oscars were made out of wood as there was a scarcity of metal. Would that make these Oscars more valuable than the metal ones by way of rareness. Can people collect Oscars or do they ever come up for sale?

[vehelpfulguy]

Many Oscar statues have been bought

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/14489 88.stm

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/15415 49.stm

[vehelpfulguy]

Bit here about the "wooden" and "plaster" Oscars.

> An honorary wooden Oscar with a movable mouth went to Edgar Bergen in 1938.

> Because of a metal shortage during World War II, Oscars were made of plaster. After the war, recipients were able to trade in their plaster statuettes for gold-plated ones.

http://www.answers.com/topic/oscar?cat=enterta inment

btw I found these answer just by doing a simple searches in Google for things like "Buying Oscars" and "Wooden Oscar"