From Car Mascots, Inc..."The official 'Beatle' Bobb'n Head mascots are great fun for use in cars, homes, club rooms, etc. Accurately sculpted heads of John Lennon, Paul McCartney, Ringo Starr, and George Harrison are carefully mounted on tempered steel springs to allow movement when activated by air flow, vibrations or hand winding. Set the 'Beatles' on the rear window platform of autos -- or on top of phonograph players -- or close to fan, air conditioning or heating ducts. Then watch the excitement when their heads start moving in perfect harmony and keeping with the famous 'Beatle' beat."
The earliest known reference to a bobblehead is thought to be in Nikolai Gogol's 1842 short story The Overcoat, in which the main character's neck was described as "like the necks of plaster cats which wag their heads". The modern bobblehead first appeared in the 1950s. By 1960, Major League Baseball had gotten in on the action and produced a series of papier-mache bobblehead dolls, one for each team, all with the same cherubic face. The World Series held that year brought the first player-specific baseball bobbleheads, for Roberto Clemente, Mickey Mantle, Roger Maris, and Willie Mays, still all with the same face. Over the next decade, after a switch in materials from paper-mache to ceramic, bobbleheads would be produced for other sports, as well as cartoon characters.
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One of the most famous bobbleheads of all time also hails from this era: The Beatles bobblehead set, which is a valuable collectible today. By the mid-1970s, though, the bobblehead craze was in the process of winding down.
Although older bobbleheads like the baseball teams and The Beatles were sought after by collectors during this period, new bobblehead dolls were few and far between.
