Centuries Of The Billiken Doll's Charm

Billiken dolls were created for the purpose of bringing luck. Attractions Doll American Illustrator and Art Teacher, Florence Pretz, the June 12, 1908 has applied a patent for the design of the same year it was granted on October 6 was the brainchild. Image was said to come from a dream, but the image name was not specifically mentioned in the patent. Speculated that the image of the named manufacturers and craftsman who Doll Guild, Billiken Sales Co., and were the Billiken Company of Chicago was left to the distributors.

Billiken elf living facilities and the smiling image of people who figure delivering own destiny. Many products again after Billiken doll became a fad. Horsman Billiken doll first made by the company in 1909 and was a 12 can not break them "content" tall made of a plush body with a head that was structured with Horsman doll but "200000 Billiken doll around. Were only six sold in the month.

But the doll's popularity did not just stop there. There were many banks Billiken products, postcards, marshmallows, incense burners, attractions token, and crossword puzzles as designed. Billiken figurines and some of the trademark or the Craftsmen Guild Highland Park Ill. Billiken Chicago or Ill. Billiken will banks were also "things as they want to be the Lord" was with his base under the medallions marking the AC Williams Company came out with two versions installed by the cast iron. Sitting on the ground before the image was Billiken and the other was sitting on a throne.

Also in 1909, many souvenir shops in Alaska with Billiken image was ivory sculptures. Before an Eskimo ivory sculpture named after Angokwazhuk copy the image to make him by a dealer commissions were different. Soon, other carvers in the business had to move and sculptures in Alaska has become a famous tourist souvenir items. Because of the popularity of the image, Billiken character found its way to Japan.

In 1921, pointed ears and Saint Louis University Saint Louis University Billiken character mascot became high officials. Even today, the rest of the doll and its products are not widely popular as before, Billiken's image was still very much present. Sensational craze brought it no longer can be repeated, but the doll a particular item is sought after by collectors of old objects.



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