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Leonardo de Funbird is a wooden marionette from the BBC children's series The Woodentops, charming British audiences alongside the puppet family starting in 1955.

Pelham Puppets Mitzi Type SS is a string-operated marionette made by the English Pelham Puppets company. The SS designation identifies a standard Pelham range characterized by a wooden puppet body and a conventional cross-shaped control. Mitzi is typically dressed with a wide-brimmed felt hat decora...

Lizzie Dreams is a marionette character from the British children's television program Playdays and its Playground Stop setting. She is associated with singing and dancing segments that encourage young viewers to move and participate, and her voice is credited to Elizabeth Watts. The character is th...

Octavia Ostrich is a French ostrich puppet character from Pipkins, a British children’s television series broadcast from 1973 to 1981. She was one of the animal residents created for the programme’s puppet world and is described in programme material as a character who sings opera. Octavia was perfo...

Jimmy Gibson is a fictional boy character in Supercar, the 1961 television series produced by AP Films. He is introduced in the first episode after being rescued and then joins Mike Mercury's team at Black Rock. The character is performed as a marionette within the series' Supermarionation technique...

Pelham Puppets SM Harlequin is an SM-range English marionette with a moving-mouth type, notable among the company's rarer collectable models.

Shane Weston is a fictional World Intelligence Network operative in Joe 90, the British Supermarionation television series produced by Century 21. The character belongs to the series' espionage and scientific-adventure setting, in which the World Intelligence Network provides the institutional conte...

Pelham Puppets Cook is an English wooden marionette of the Duchess's pepper-throwing cook from Lewis Carroll's 1865 Alice, notable in the rare 1950s Alice range.

Pelham Puppets Colonel Beetroot is a specific English marionette model associated with the vegetable characters from the BBC television program Whirligig in the 1950s. The figure belongs to the Pelham Puppets tradition of string-controlled puppets and is identified by its Colonel Beetroot character...

Pelham Puppets SM Villain is an SM-range English marionette with a moving-mouth type, notable among the company's rarer collectable models.

Pelham Puppets Sarah Swede is a Type SL string puppet associated with the vegetable characters from the television program Whirligig. Pelham's historical material places Sarah Swede alongside Mr Turnip and other television characters in the company's early 1950s range, while collector references lis...

Matthew Harding is a fictional marionette character in Gerry Anderson's television series The Secret Service, a 1969 Supermarionation production. He works as Father Unwin's gardener while also serving as a fellow BISHOP agent, so the character combines an ordinary household job with participation in...

Pelham Puppets SL Fox is an English animal marionette from Pelham Puppets' 1963 range. Pelham's products were wooden string puppets made in England by the company founded by Bob Pelham, and the 1963 range included animal and storybook characters. The SL Fox is a vintage collectible identified by its...

The Pelham Puppets SL Bull is an English string marionette made by Pelham Puppets as part of the company's 1963 range of characters. The SL designation identifies a Pelham marionette type generally associated with moulded heads and bodies joined by string or screw eyes, while this model represents a...

The Pelham Puppets Girl Type SS is a vintage wooden marionette manufactured by the British toy company Pelham Puppets. Created by founder Bob Pelham, the "SS" designated a standard range of string puppets characterized by their simple wooden carved heads, wire bodies, and fabric clothing. This parti...

Pelham Puppets SS Bookworm Professor is an SS-range English wooden marionette, notable as part of the rare Bookworm family with Julia and Billy.

Pelham Puppets SM Huntsman is an SM-range English marionette with a moving-mouth type, notable among the company's rarer collectable models.

Pelham Puppets SL Harris Tweed is an SL-range English marionette from Bob Pelham's firm, notable among the company's rarer collectable models.

Pelham Puppets Frog Footman is a wooden string marionette produced by the English company Pelham Puppets. Its character represents the Frog Footman, the livery servant who appears in Lewis Carroll's Alice in Wonderland. The puppet is associated with the company's rare 1950s Alice in Wonderland range...

Pelham Puppets Fish Footman is an English wooden marionette of Lewis Carroll's livery servant, notable in the rare 1950s Alice in Wonderland range.

Pelham Puppets SL Cow is a cow-shaped marionette made by Pelham Puppets, the English company known for its string-operated puppets. The model belongs to the company's SL range associated with its 1963 catalogue period. It is of interest to collectors of British manufactured puppets, vintage marionet...

Pelham Puppets SL Tortoise is a string-operated marionette made by Pelham Puppets, the British toy company known for its boxed wooden puppets. The model belongs to the SL range associated with the company's 1963 animal designs and represents a tortoise rather than a human or character figure. Collec...

Pelham Puppets SL Lettuce Leefe is an SL-range English marionette from Bob Pelham's firm, notable among the company's rarer collectable models.

Pelham Puppets SS Bookworm Billy is an SS-range English wooden marionette, notable as part of the rare Bookworm family with Professor and Julia.

Mrs. Harris is a fictional housekeeper character in The Secret Service, a British television production created by Gerry Anderson and released in 1969. The series used Supermarionation puppetry together with live-action sequences, continuing Anderson's practice of combining miniature effects and fil...

Pelham Puppets SS Bookworm Julia is a wooden string marionette made by the English toy-theatre company Pelham Puppets. It belongs to the Bookworm family of figures, a group that also includes Professor and Billy. The SS designation identifies its place within Pelham’s product range. The figure is pr...

Dan the Potato Man is a supporting marionette character from the BBC television series The Flower Pot Men, a classic British puppet show that debuted in 1952.

Based on the popular character from the 1950s BBC television program Watch with Mother, this wooden Pelham Puppet was manufactured in the UK by Bob Pelham's renowned toy company.

Pelham Puppets Gypsy Type SS is a vintage British string marionette from the SS range made by Pelham Puppets. The figure is a stylized female character wearing a costume that may include a red satin skirt, decorative jewellery, and hoop earrings, although details can vary between production examples...

Pelham Puppets Golly Type SS is a British vintage string marionette made by the Pelham Puppet company, founded by Bob Pelham in Marlborough after the Second World War. In Pelham's cataloging system, SS was a type or price category used for several characters, rather than a reference to a single prod...