Thoughts On Buying Ventriloquist Figures

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Almost every builder of figures sold everything separately such as bodies, hands or heads. If you look in the 1931 Marshall catalogue on page 12 Frank offers, heads and hands for sale. Other makers such as Pinxy, Spencer, Finis, and Coats also sold parts.

This was a business for these builders so sales of parts was important for them to be able to increase business. Granted they most certainly wanted to sell complete figures to get the highest amount of income but these sales of parts were a must.

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My Confession Beatles Story – Bob Abdou

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Next week will be the 50th anniversary of the Beatles performing on the Ed Sullivan show. With that in mind, our good friend, Bob Abdou sent us this article about him and his upcoming performance at the Official Beatle’s Convention.

It all started 19 years ago, the first time my Beatles puppet show was seen by a live audience.

The place was the open mic session at the 1995 Ventriloquist convention
To get everybody in the mood, I printed tickets and passed them out as my fellow ventriloquists entering into the main room. (see photo)

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Meteorologist and Ventriloquist Mike Randall – Interview With A Ground Hog 2014

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Meteorologist and Ventriloquist Mike Randall of WKBW-TV in Buffalo, New York, sent us this “Interview With A Ground Hog 2014”.

You may remember that back in February of 2008, Mike sent us some videos of his interviews with the late, great, ventriloquist….Johnny Main.

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Ventriloquist Central Collection Video Series – “Goatee” Frank Marshall Figure

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Here’s a video showing a nice Frank Marshall ventriloquist figure from the 1940’s I called “Goatee”.

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Great Ventriloquist Dennis Spicer

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Many of you today may have never heard of Dennis Spicer but he was a terrific ventriloquist from across the pond and here is his very last Television performance.

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