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President Richard Nixon's Puppet Head and Body - D.C. FOLLIES (1987 - 1989)

Currency:USD Category:Memorabilia / Television - Props Start Price:500.00 USD Estimated At:1,000.00 - 1,500.00 USD
President Richard Nixon's Puppet Head and Body - D.C. FOLLIES (1987 - 1989)


A President Nixon human-sized puppet head and body from Sid and Marty Krofft’s satirical sitcom D.C. Follies. The highly detailed carved foam puppet has beige colored jersey hands and hand-painted urethane fingernails. It is dressed in a navy wool blazer from Hart Schaffner and Marx, a grey blue Tarleton shirt and navy maroon striped tie dressed on an internal armature structure. There are foam arms with black sleeves stitched to each elbow. The jacket pocket is marked ‘abc’ and the shirt is marked ’Ted Kennedy’ on interior. The puppet head is made of reticulated foam that has been sculpted, dyed and airbrushed in Nixon’s caricature image. It features a receding hairline, elongated nose, white teeth, plastic eye inserts and dark brown hair. Two straps, one marked ‘NIXON’, protrude from the neck. The puppet is in good, production-used condition overall.

The show transmits from a fictional Washington D.C. bar and offers comical political commentary. President Nixon appears throughout the series, including in the Nixon-focused episode ‘Nixon’s Presidential Library is a Bookmobile’ (102).

Dimensions: (head): 10 ½” x 8” x 15” (26 ½ cm x 20 ½ cm x 38 cm); (torso): 6” x 21” x 32” (15 cm x 53 ½ cm x 81 ½ cm)

Provenance: Mr. Marty Krofft