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Russ Troll Doll
Donors: Catherine Orr & Elizabeth Bland
Accession #: 2003.34.4
Most people have heard of trolls, most notably
those made popular in the Lord of the Rings
trilogy. But trolls have been around for a long
time. Originally part of Norse mythology they
have grown to be oversize creatures covered in
thick hair and are often naïve. While today’s
trolls lurk in adventure movies, in the 1960s
miniature versions of those oversize creatures
lurked in your Christmas stocking.
Originally created in 1959 by Thomas Dam, a
woodcarver in Denmark, these dolls hit the all
time best selling list from 1963 to 1965. Dam's
company Dam Things began producing the dolls in
plastic under the name Good Luck Trolls. A
failure to keep up on the copyright caused many
other companies to get in on the troll doll
craze. Today, the copyright has been given
solely to the Danish company. |
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