Finding any Japanese Transformer legitimately MISB is increasingly difficult. Many shops actually opened all the toys when receiving them, and as there was no dominant toy store most were distributed through small local shops. The good thing is that due to the styro, even opened Japanese Transformers display nicely. But finding a legit MISB version is very challenging. I've seen a few MISB steppers, but only a couple MISB Artfire's. Who seems to show up less. What is interesting, is that Artfire and Stepper's boxes are totally different dimensions, with Artfire almost twice as big a box as Stepper. Perhaps they were distributed separately and thus the discrepency between the number of each that shows up. A great piece, the gloss on this is fantastic, one of the best boxes in general I've seen, a C9+ box, and legitimately MISB.

This piece was obtained from a private collector from the Netherlands.

Collection of: Curt Fignar

C-109 Artfire - AFA Graded Back of Box
C-109 Artfire - AFA Graded Label #7984875
C-109 Artfire - Non Graded Front of Box
C-109 Artfire - Non-Graded Back of Box