Ventriloquist Central - A Tribute To Ventriloquism

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These two items were sent in by regular contributors to Ventriloquist Central.

This first news item was sent in by Lee Dean of Kentucky.

Click here to see ventriloquist news article

This next article was sent in by “Mr. Puppet” himself, Bob Abdou. It’s a write up about Bob’s latest show.

Click here to see Bob Abdou article.

Many thanks to Lee and Bob for keeping us up to date on some of the latest happenings.

Dan
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Almost every builder of figures sold everything separately such as bodies, hands or heads. If you look in the 1931 Marshall catalogue on page 12 Frank offers, heads and hands for sale.

Click here to see Frank’s Catalogue (scroll down to Frank Marshall)

Other makers such as Pinxy, Spencer, Finis, and Coats also sold parts. This was a business for these builders so sales of parts was important for them to be able to increase business. Granted they most certainly wanted to sell complete figures to get the highest amount of income but these sales of parts were a must.

Consequently from time to time you will find a figure that has a head by one maker and a body by another and maybe even the hands are from a third maker. This is even true today. I have seen many figures for sale on ebay made up of parts. This is not bad but I myself view a “parts put together figure” as just that… parts.

This brings me to the old topic of value. I know some do not agree, but for the most value, all the parts must be original and any replacements of other makers parts de-value the figure.

I once purchased a great Marshall that the head was on a Foy Brown body. It was a complete figure but not worth NEAR what it would have been worth if the head was on Frank’s original body. With cloths on it looks fine but it just isn’t all original.

If you ask someone selling to show you pictures of the body unclothed and they do not comply you can rest assure that the body is not from the same maker. I just had this happen this week with a figure on ebay.

I asked for pictures of the hands (which you could not see) and for pictures of the body unclothed but the seller decided not to respond to me. They did respond when I asked what the head was made of so the non response is a clear showing that they are hiding something. Always make sure you know what you are buying.

All this being said, I do purchase parts and put them aside so that I am able at a later date to complete a figure and make him all original to the same maker.

Dan
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Steve and I have had quite a bit of trouble with the forum on VentriloquistCentral.com. Therefore to remedy this situation we have decided to use the Yahoo group for our forum.

We spent too much time trying to keep our forum up and running but we were losing many posts from people and also spam was driving us crazy. So this was the way to remedy the situation.

Everyone is familiar with the Yahoo groups and how they run so this will be an easy transition for everyone.

I hope that you all will decide to join and take advantage of a great place to talk ventriloquism. Of course I will continue to post on my blog and your comments are always welcome there too.

Click Here to Join the Ventriloquist Central Yahoo Groups Forum

Dan
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I don’t know if it is this site or not but after running the latest poll right here on my blog asking hard or soft figures, it seems that you, the readers, are overwhelmingly in favor of the hard figure. At 82% over 18% clearly the hard figure wins this competition.

I have said many times that I love the hard figure and a mark of the true ventriloquist is a hard figure. Puppeteers use soft figures and that is not bad but I just love hard figures.

On another note I asked for some help on the Forum so please take a few minutes to go and take a look and maybe you can be of some help for identification and help for the Tribute to Ventriloquism pages.

Click here for the Forum

It would be greatly appreciated. The Forum has been overlooked but I believe that it is a very valuable asset to Ventriloquist Central and I do hope more of you will join in and ask or answer questions.

It seems that the summer doldrums are upon us since the ConVENTion and there really isn’t much going on right now but if you have anything exciting to report we are always happy to put it out there for you.

Dan
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