From: BobBrownPuppets-AT-aol.com Date: Sat, 10 Apr 2010 20:03:44 EDT To: puptcrit-AT-puptcrit.org Subject: Re: [Puptcrit] Baird Puppet on ebay I worked on Man in the Moon. The Man in the Moon marionette had painted shadows for eyes as opposed to the typical black dots with a space cut out for a highlight and the marionette seems to have been recostumed. bob brown. In a message dated 4/9/2010 9:26:29 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time, syrotiak-AT-comcast.net writes: Wow! Great figure. One of these days I'd love to own a Baird Figure. Beautiful! Sincerely, David J. Syrotiak syrotiak-AT-comcast.net On Apr 9, 2010, at 1:29 PM, Widerman-AT-aol.com wrote: > I sent a message privately that was replied to publicly on Puptcrit. Since > that seems a little unfair, I would like to clarify by describing the > original message for the benefit Puptcrit regulars. > > Recently, an important Bil Baird figure appeared on ebay at a rather > substantial starting price. You can see the auction listing, now ended with no > bidders, at the following link: > > > _http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=250608160610&ssPageName> ADME:B:WNA:US:1123_ > (http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=250608160610&ssPageName=ADME:B:WNA:US:1123) > > I thought something appeared amiss but could not put my finger on it. I > shared the listing with a colleague who had worked for Baird who was familiar > with the entire Baird collection. He pointed out that eyes had been painted > where there probably were no eyes in the original. This puppet's eyes are > clearly not in Baird's signature style of pie sliced pupils and look very > wrong. Also, the puppet appears to have been re-costumed. > > -Steven-> > > . > > > > > _______________________________________________ > List address: puptcrit-AT-puptcrit.org > Admin interface: http://lists.puptcrit.org/mailman/listinfo/puptcrit > Archives: http://www.driftline.org _______________________________________________ List address: puptcrit-AT-puptcrit.org Admin interface: http://lists.puptcrit.org/mailman/listinfo/puptcrit Archives: http://www.driftline.org _______________________________________________ List address: puptcrit-AT-puptcrit.org Admin interface: http://lists.puptcrit.org/mailman/listinfo/puptcrit Archives: http://www.driftline.org
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