{"id":41008,"date":"2020-11-25T16:49:17","date_gmt":"2020-11-25T21:49:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rehs.com\/eng\/?p=41008"},"modified":"2020-11-26T15:29:26","modified_gmt":"2020-11-26T20:29:26","slug":"holiday-puppets-make-history","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rehs.com\/eng\/2020\/11\/holiday-puppets-make-history\/","title":{"rendered":"Holiday Puppets Make History"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/rehs.com\/eng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/rudolph-and-santa-1.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-41013\" src=\"https:\/\/rehs.com\/eng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/rudolph-and-santa-1.jpg\" alt=\"Santa Claus and Rudolph the red nosed reindeer standing on snow with presents\" width=\"224\" height=\"202\" srcset=\"https:\/\/rehs.com\/eng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/rudolph-and-santa-1.jpg 612w, https:\/\/rehs.com\/eng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/rudolph-and-santa-1-300x271.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 224px) 100vw, 224px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Wishing everyone a very Happy Thanksgiving, and with that we have officially entered the holiday season! And so begins the onslaught of holiday television specials\u2026 One of those specials has aired yearly since December 1964 as part of NBC\u2019s <em>General Electric Fantasy Hour&#8230;<\/em> it features the most famous couple of Christmas characters &#8211; Santa and Rudolph.<\/p>\n<p>The stop-action movie was based on Jonny Marks\u2019 song <em>Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer<\/em> (which was inspired by a poem [by the same name] written by Marks\u2019 brother-in-law Robert May in 1939). The tune has become so culturally significant and instantly recognizable over the years &#8211; Gene Autry recorded the song, and it hit No. 1 on the U.S. charts Christmas week of 1949.\u00a0 It has also been re-recorded by countless bands and singers including Bing Crosby, The Supremes, The Temptations, The Jackson 5, Destiny\u2019s Child, and Alvin and the Chipmunks, just to name a few.<\/p>\n<p>Recently, two of the original puppets that were made for the original movie flew across the auction block. They included the most famous reindeer of all and his partner Santa, as well as Santa\u2019s sleigh and some misfit toys.<\/p>\n<p>In 1964 the puppets cost $5,000 each to make and were created by Japanese puppet maker Ichiro Komuro;\u00a0 Santa stands at 11 inches tall and Rudolph is just 6 inches in height\u2026 both were crafted from wood, wire, cloth, leather, and yak hair.<\/p>\n<p>The puppets had been housed in the NY offices of Rankin\/Bass Productions (the creators of the movie) until the early 1970s when Arthur Rankin, Jr. gifted them to his secretary. She, in turn, gave them to her nephew. In 2005 he brought them to the Antiques Roadshow where they were appraised at $8-10K.\u00a0 With that, he decided to offer them on eBay and was contacted by Kevin Kriess, the owner of a toy store in PA, who purchased the puppets for an undisclosed price.<\/p>\n<p>Rudolph and Santa underwent some minor restoration, and Kriess sold them to a collector (Peter Lutrario) for \u201csignificantly more than $30K.\u201d\u00a0\u00a0 Lutrario fully intended to hold onto the puppets until his death but recently decided to sell them to help his family\u2026<\/p>\n<p>All the items were presented in one lot and were estimated to make $150- 250K.\u00a0 Bidders &#8220;shouted out with glee&#8221; as the estimate was quickly surpassed &#8211; the little puppets made history, selling for $368,000!<\/p>\n<p>If you are looking forward to watching Rudolph this year, you can see it on CBS on December 12<sup>th<\/sup>, at 8PM\u2026Enjoy!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wishing everyone a very Happy Thanksgiving, and with that we have officially entered the holiday season! 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