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Friday 4 September 2015

Pepper: dolls.


Apologies for the lack of activity round these parts of late; it's surprisingly time consuming to get even a scrap of this rubbish together, and free time is in short supply these days. Anyway, there's no shortage of stuff to post, as and when, so... gerronwithit.
I hadn't seen these pics before. I'm sure no red arrows are needed to recognise the basket's contents, but nevertheless:


There are also another couple of dolls (or toys) in there:


Various photos showing the construction of the Pepper sleeve reveal lots of other stuff that didn't make the final cut, and there are a few such things evident in this splendid pic o' Mal:


Ye can waste yer own time identifying them, but here's one for starters - a small collection of figures:


And whither the doll? As is often the case... I dunno. PS Note luggage tag (haha)(it couldn't be, could it?).

6 comments:

  1. I have squinted so hard at the luggage label that my face hurts and I fear I have given myself a permanent gurn.

    Looks like Sboggy or Twiggy ?

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  2. Great stuff as always !!

    Looks like Edgar Alan Poe was the first person set up for the shot.

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  3. Very interesting stuff, as always!

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  4. I was told that radio stations here in the USA gave out dolls to visiting pop groups, similar to the one with the "Welcome The Rolling Stones" motif. So I would think that this doll, or at least the shirt, originated from this source, Mick, Keith or Brian.

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  5. Yes most definitely, I just looked at the Pepper sleeve and the doll's shirt says, "GOOD GUYS" on the sleeve which was a phrase commonly used on all the top 40 stations back then, "WABC Good Guys", "WMCA Good Guys", they all did it.

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  6. Well...maybe the dolls didn't come from the radio stations but the shirts definitely did. But I just googled and here's the story behind that shirt: http://fredbals.blogspot.com/2007/02/wmps-good-guys-welcome-rolling-stones.html

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