**Just a quick note to all of you who check our Online Store on a regular basis. I apologize for the delay in posting new items for sale. I am doing a renovation in my basemant and have packed up the dolls until the end of September. Hopefully, I will be able to post items on a regular basis starting in October.

***Reminder- we will be setting up at the 98th Philadelphia Sports Card & Memorabilia Show from Friday October 12 through Sunday October 14. The show is actually at the Greater Reading Expo Center- 2525 N 12th Street in Reading Pa. We will be bringing several hundred bobbing heads, mascot banks, pennants, hartlands and other miscellaneous memorabilia. If you are around, please come visit us at Booth 402.

**********************************************************************************

NON-SPORT BOBBING HEADS

For those who have collected bobbing head sports dolls over the years and are alomst complete with our collection, there's another area of dolls that may be of interest to you. Welcome to the wonderful world of the non-sport bobbing heads. These dolls can be a terrific addition to your collection. They span many different categories that include political, celebrity, comic characters and advertising. There are enough in each category to keep your collecting needs going for a long time.

Political- there are a number of fantastic dolls that poke fun of some of the main leaders of the world in the 60's. Dolls of John Kennedy, Castro, Mao Tse Tung and Kruschev head the list. There are three different dolls of JFK, three of Kruschev and two of Castro. All are great fun.

Celebrity- There are also quite a few celebrity dolls of both T.V. and Movie stars. Early 60's television personalities such as Dr. Kildare, Ben Casey, Dobie Gillis, Maynard G. Krebbs, Roy Rogers and Charlie Weaver were made into dolls.

Comic Characters- These dolls are some of the most collectible in the hobby. There is an incredible series of 6 dolls that are of the Peanuts characters Charlie Brown, Lucy, Linus, Schroder, Pigpen and of course Snoopy. There is another series based on the Warner brothers characters that include Porky Pig, Bugs Bunny, Elmer Fudd, Daffy Duck, Tweety, Foghorn Leghorn, Speedy Gonzales, Wilie Coyote and Yosemite Sam. There are some individual dolls that are extremely scarce. Popeye, Dick Tracy and Mr. Magoo dolls can easily sell in the $5,000 and up range. Batman and Robin dolls are so scarce that the sky is the limit on the price.

Advertising- These dolls are very interesting and can be a challange to find. Resturaunt dolls of Bob's Big Boy, Tom Pouce (Canadian hamburger joint) and Kentucky Fried Chicken's Colonel Sanders head the list. There are also dolls of the Phillips 66 Cowboy, Red Goose Shoes mascot, the Poll parrot and Weatherbird Shoes (rooster).Some of the rarer advertising dolls include the Natural Gas Genie, Knotts Berry Farm and K.C. Piston.

There are really too many dolls to list, so you'll have a fun time adding these to your collection.For a more detailed look at these dolls, you can always pick up our Bobbing Head Field Guide. It is available to all our readers for only $14 which includes Priority Mail shipping in the U.S. It's 500 pages of color pictures, prices and collecting tips.