From: FLEXITOON-AT-aol.com
Date: Wed, 3 Mar 2010 18:31:23 EST
To: puptcrit-AT-puptcrit.org
Subject: Re: [Puptcrit] Bil Baird commercially produced hand puppet


Hi.
When Soupy Sales first started his show, they bought an over-the-counter  
Bil Baird Charlemagne Toy and used it as POOKIE.  Eventually (for legal  
reasons and otherwise) Soupy turned to Domenico Facci - - a fine craftsman in  
NYC - - to make a sorta-kinda-but-not Charlemagne, which became the POOKIE 
most  people remember.  Domenico  also made all the hand-puppets for "Jimmy  
Nelson's STUDIO 991/2".
Craig
flexitoon.blogspot.com
 
 
 
In a message dated 3/3/2010 4:34:13 P.M. Eastern Standard Time,  
llamborn-AT-rbc.org writes:

Hi  David
I have a Charlemagne hand puppet which I received as a  birthday present
back in the 50's. I agree with you I have never seen one  on Ebay or any
other site.  I thot Suppy Sales had one hand puppet  that looked a lot like
Charlemagne but that is as close as I have seen  anywhere.  I think Flannel
the Mouse was the other hand puppet Bil  Baird had made thru Juro.
Les

On Wed, Mar 3, 2010 at 8:14 AM,  David Seward <menemshaman-AT-yahoo.com> wrote:

>  Hello,
>
> In the 1950's Bil Baird had Juro Novelty Company  produce hand puppets for
> the commercial market.  One of these was  a large hand puppet of 
"Charlemagne
> the Lion."  Bil Baird was a  simmer resident of the island of Martha's
> Vineyard where my family and  his became good friends. Bil owned a home 
in my
> town and he and his  wife Cora became treasured members of the summer
> community. I was  given a "Charlemagne" hand puppet for Christmas back in 
the
> 50"s , but  it has long since disappeared. I have been trying to locate 
one
> for  many years.  Several years ago I was able to locate a man who worked 
 for
> Juro and he provided me with a rubber head of the Charlemagne  item, free 
of
> any painting or adornment.  Many searches on Ebay  and the Internet have
> proved fruitless in finding the actual hand  puppet.
>
> Does anyone in your organization have any information  concerning the
> commercial "Charlemagne" hand puppet? Any leads would  be gratefully
> accepted.  I am attaching a photo of Bil taken in  1965,  He is giving  my
> nephew one of his famous  tattoos.
>
> Sincerely,
>
> David  Seward
>
>
>
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-- 
Les Lamborn
Sr.  Radio Prod.
RBC  Ministries
WWW.RBC.org
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