Featured What are these 2 vintage toys? Theu look like Humpty Dumpty & his son w/a hangover + a butt crack?!

What the heck are these?? They are creepy & funny at the same time!

They look like a 1960's or 1970's hippie's version of Humpty Dumpty! I looked up LILYPUTS & LILYPOTS Humpty Dumpty figures but nothing came up.

Can someone tell me what these are, please?

Thank you!

 

Good lord! Those are disturbing like a Murun Buchstansangur fever dream.

 

Never saw that before. Looks like Humpty Dumpty got it on with a shriveled raisin.

 

I think they're about the coolest things you've ever shown. Are they celluloid? I think they could be antique. The one looks like it has a hook to hang as an ornament? How big?

Kind of potato-like.

 

Halloween ornament?

 

The one on the right is dead.

Do you think he knows?

 

Journey, you never disappoint! What an interesting pair.

What is the material? Are they pottery? I would have grabbed those, too.

 

They feel like kind of like plastic but thicker? (Not the right word I'm looking for) and kinda waxy? (May not be the right word either sheeesh)

 

That backstamp looks like a frog.

 

I like them. They look like the sort of thing that might have been found at a crafts show in the heyday of such events. If artisan was active entirely pre-Internet, you may never know.

 

Think about them as political caricatures. Those faces are real people! Whenever they were made, they represented folks the public was familiar with...and not in a particularly unkindly way.

There's more to this story than meets the eye...an' they ain't toys.

 

From about the 1870's through about the 1970's I found references to Liliput *everything*...Liliput collapsible pocket stereoscopes, Liliput opera glasses, Liliput (small) chocolate eggs for Easter, Liliput zinnias, Liliput parties for children, even Liliput children, etc. The earliest Liliput mentions referenced Gulliver's Travels which was the obvious inspiration for the use of Liliput to mean 'little.' The only thing I didn't find was anything Liliput that had anything like your figures. Since they are both intended to sit, I can only guess they were meant to sit on a shelf, in the garden, in a pot of flowers, etc. Interesting find!

 

George Bush and Dan Quayle???? The figures are butt heads, and it would fit.

 

If these weren't such turbulent times, I'd say 'speak well of the (politically) dead'...particularly that Q person.

But...perhaps one shouldn't count their chickens prematurely in these post Trump, pre-2024 times.

Sigh...

 

George is out of that game permanently, as far as I can tell. Haven't heard a peep/cheep out of Quayle in 20 years. Maybe he's hiding out at Rayo's?

 

Or in his potatoe garden...

 

Or he's the editor in chief of the Quayle Quarterly. It was real; I read it, and it was dedicated to Quayleisms. (none too politely)

 

Enough! about th' Jerk, already!

 

Maybe they're lipoma models! (I've watched Dr Pimple Popper one time too many.)