Vintage sought-after collectible Rootie Kazutie Doll

Description: This is a vintage greatly sought-after collectible Rootie Kazutie DollFirst produced in the 1950s by the Effanbee Doll Company Known as the Effanbee Rootie Kazutie Baseball Doll, Rootie Kazootie was the principal character on the 1950s children's television show The Rootie Kazootie Club. The doll has become a prized collectible due to its provenance and the culture that contributed to its popularity. See below for more information* The doll has been sitting in storage for many years, resulting in a part of its arms having dried out and fallen off. The clothes as well are quite dirty from the dust in the box it was kept. The dolls head move right or left when the legs are moved. The doll sits, but I have not been able to extend the legs for it to stand. The doll also spoke, as indicated by the “speaker perforations on the chest) Due to its condition (arms in disrepair and dirty clothes) it is being sold at a deep discount. The missing part of the arms, perhaps, can be restored and the clothes cleaned (and a true expert might perhaps get him to speak yet again) Still, the head alone, which is in fine condition (though a couple of freckles on his right cheek have faded a bit) is a significant sought-after collectible in its own right. * Wikipedia: Rootie Kazootie was the principal character on the 1950s children's television show, The Rootie Kazootie Club…”Rootie Kazootie was a boy ‘keen on sports’ who played his ‘magic kazootie’. Rootie’s girl friend was Polka Dottie with the “arch-villain” being “Poison Zoomack who constantly tried to steal Polka Dottie's polka dots and Rootie's magic kazootie”. Schoolchildren in the live udience “joined in singing the theme song, proclaiming at the beginning of each show, "Who is the boy who is full of zip and joy? He's Rootie Kazootie!" “Since the title character regularly used a magical kazoo, which he called his "Magic Kazootie," the kids began calling him "Rootie Kazootie." “At the height of the show's popularity, its audience was estimated at between 2 million and 3 million people, and in 1953 fan letters were pouring in at a reported average rate of 32,000 each week. Words such as "yesirootie" and "gosharootie" from the Rootie Kazootie lexicon were adopted by schoolchildren of the time.

Price: 55 USD

Location: Teaneck, New Jersey

End Time: 2024-10-21T13:13:38.000Z

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