davidd's A Doll A Day 2018

[davidd]

Do like the backdrop on her pic, I might have to dig out some of my postcards to use as backdrops.

Such a cute backdrop. Did you make it?

The backdrop is a decorative picture I found at a weekend swap meet in Honolulu a few years ago.

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25 August – William Howard Taft, 27th President of the United States
and 10th Chief Justice of the United States Supreme Court
... and a penguin

The President Taft miniature plastic figure (about 2-3/4 inches / 7cm tall) is one of a series of U.S. Presidents figures manufactured by the Marx toy company from the late-1950s until about 1968. The original line of figures included all the presidents from George Washington through Richard Nixon. But I only have this one.

I found this interesting article online, dating from about ten years ago, about a man, a television comedy screenwriter, who collected these figures when he was a boy, and in his adult years decided to eand and continue the series by modeling custom figures of his own of successive presidents and former members of the Supreme Court.

The penguin is cast from metal and belonged to my grandparents. It was a souvenir from somewhere, but the writing has long ago rubbed off. In fact, I had never noticed that some of the smudges on his tummy were writing until after snapping this photo!

In the background is an old glass telephone pole insulator that I found while hiking behind my house.