This type of Kewpie doll was often used as a prize in traveling carnivals in the fifties and early sixties. They were celluloid and very brittle and crushable. I loved them!!! These photos are in response to LWBUT’s comment on This blog entry of mine.
Cool – now i’ve seen my first kewpie doll !! 🙂
Cellulose? Wow… for some reason i used to think they might be ‘flannel’ or made of cloth material?
Thank you for improving my neglected education. 😉 🙂
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Some were made out of different material, but the ones I had were these cheap celluloid ones given as prizes in carnivals.(Not cellulose. I used the wrong word.)
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I was happy with cellulose! 😉
(You are right though – they are different things!)
Did any of yours last the distance? Or are they long gone? 😉
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Loooong gone.
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😦 you still have the memory though! 🙂
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See also, https://www.google.com/search?q=kewpie+dolls&oq=Kewpie+dolls&aqs=chrome.0.0l6.2968j0j4&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8
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What a memory! I often asked my parents if they would buy me one of these in the summers when we went to the circus that came to our small town. I remember the year that I finally got one!
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They were on a long stick and as I remember it, only available as prizes in the
burst a balloon game or the nickel or ball toss.
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