ITPC 2020 NEW YEAR AUCTION - 400 LOTS - CLOSES 1/24/20
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These two great looking dolls represent the Republican mascot elephant and Democrat mascot donkey. Both double as coin banks.
****Ever wondered what the story was behind these two famous party animals?
The now-famous Democratic donkey was first associated with Democrat Andrew Jackson's 1828 presidential campaign. His opponents called him a jackass (a donkey), and Jackson decided to use the image of the strong-willed animal on his campaign posters. Later, cartoonist Thomas Nast used the Democratic donkey in newspaper cartoons and made the symbol famous.
Nast invented another famous symbol—the Republican elephant. In a cartoon that appeared in Harper's Weekly in 1874, Nast drew a donkey clothed in lion's skin, scaring away all the animals at the zoo. One of those animals, the elephant, was labeled “The Republican Vote.” That's all it took for the elephant to become associated with the Republican Party
60's REPUBLICAN & DEMOCRATIC MASCOT BOBBING HEADS / BANKS
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