08-26-2018, 12:04 PM
(08-25-2018, 06:18 PM)Lejays17 Wrote: Do like the backdrop on her pic, I might have to dig out some of my postcards to use as backdrops.
(08-26-2018, 11:03 AM)Alliecat Wrote: 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.
![[Image: august25.jpg]](http://www.puuikibeach.com/images/doll_a_day_2018/august25.jpg)
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 e

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.
They're not dolls, they're action figures!