After 20+ years of searching I have finally found the real doll in which Tom Servo's hands were made.
As I had suspected for many years it was not a ventriloquist figure like a Charlie McCarthy doll. It is a 30" plastic girl doll. Unfortunately there are no identifying markings on her except on the neck ©1961. The plastic is pretty cheap and flimsy so this is not a high-end type doll. I wanted to further identify this doll before posting about it but I can't find any additional info anywhere.
Finding this doll also represents important personal milestone for me: I now own all the original parts for Servo, Crow and Gypsy. When I started doing this back in the 90s I optimistically thought this day would come a lot sooner. But I guess my diligence has finally paid off.
Below are some photos. Sorry about the watermarks, but in the past I've had a couple people snagging photos of rare parts from my website, putting them on their own sites and vaguely suggesting that the parts were theirs or that they had found them. If you want to use a photo or have any questions just ask me.
Also, before everyone stampedes to ebay looking for this doll, I've got ebay pretty well staked out with searches and no other dolls have turned up in the past few weeks. This this is still not an easy item to find. If one does turn up on ebay I'll be all over it. But if anyone out there happen to find another of these dolls and digs up and further info please come back and share it with the rest of us.
Merry Christmas and Hikeeba!
Bob Bukoski
