A Century of Memories Auction
This lot is closed for bidding. Bidding ended on 12/8/2009
Talk about a rare bird sighting, this sensational Montreal Alouettes mascot football doll was a unique variation on the bobbing head dolls of the early 1960s. Extremely hard to come by today, these unique CFL dolls included the Alouettes' bird mascot featured here, as well as a lion mascot for British Columbia and a horse mascots for the Calgary Stampeders and Saskatchewan Roughriders. This sensational and extremely rare vintage Alouettes mascot nodder features a bird's head fashioned from plaster over a lead insert with its neck sticking out of one end of a football-shaped ceramic base painted in brown with white trim. A vintage "Singing Alouette" bird and football Montreal logo remains fully intact where it was originally glued onto the face of the football. The mascot has a hook on the back of its neck that attaches inside the top of the football. The bird's head is painted black with an orangish bill and light blue and white for its eyes and it sports a football helmet with an "Alouettes" decal that is painted white with red feather stripes. This very desirable nodder remains in excellent-plus condition with a tiny chip in the edge of the football behind the bird's neck the only flaw to note. A very gentille Alouette, indeed!
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