Monday, February 22, 2010

Learning the ropes

An emperor penguin is giving a Santa elf a skating lesson and it looks like it’s as hard on the teacher as it is on the pupil. Both have cushy pillows strapped to their backsides with ropes just like the one that serves as a hanging ribbon on the ornament. It looks like it is carved from wood, but it’s actually made of plaster or something that’s very heavy. This was a gift from my cousins in Albuquerque: John, Holly, Lee and Jackie Truitt. The artist signed the back “LS ’95.”

Hallmark 1995 penguin teaching an elf to skate with pillows
Acquired: 1995
Number: 0151
Price: gift
Size: 2.25 inches tall, 2.5 inches long 

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