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Standing in his living room, Harold Crocker was eager to exhibit his ventriloquist dollsâwhich he refers to as âfiguresâ instead of âdummiesââand converse in different charactersâ voices, wielding them almost as an extension of his arm.
A ventriloquist for close to 70 years, he, along with other popular performers, was recently included in Bryan W. Simonâs new book of ventriloquy trivia, âIâm No Dummy Every Day: 365 Days of Ventriloquial Oddities, Curiosities, and Fun Facts.â
âI would say to people: âJeez, I play with dolls.â They would look at me and say âWhat?â and I say âYeah, I play with dolls,ââ said Mr. Crocker, in between introducing and bickering with the eight figures he was bringing in and out of the room.
Milestone s May 1 auction loaded with rare robots, space toys, early comic character toys, vintage toy boats & motors
Excellent Marx prototype Moon Mullins Speedboy Delivery Motorcycle, 10 inches long with hand-painted Moon Mullins driver figure. Never saw production. Estimate $3,000-$4,000.
WILLOUGHBY, OHIO
.- They came from the future and landed on Earth in the 1950s and 60s, but now toy robots of that classic production era seem more like prophets whose mission is being fulfilled more than half a century later in the labs of MIT and NASA. For many collectors, the connection to robots is rooted in a childhood memory discovering that Santa had left them a walking, flashing, noisy android under the Christmas tree. Collectors will relive that indelible memory on May 1st at Milestones 766-lot Spring Spectacular Toy Auction, which features a specialty grouping of more than 100 coveted vintage robots and space toys.