also created for the same contest...
"vintage 60s factory produced piece (not homemade or something), and originally made for the Aurora monster model contest... but it was not made by Aurora Plastics (which made injected plastic products, not metal trophies). They were produced by a company that specifically made metal trophies, for the Aurora sponsored contest. model stores were giving these away for the Aurora Master Monster Model contest and this is how they were offered to hobby stores by Trost Hobby in Chicago in the mid 1960s."