ZIPPY, GEORGE AND BUNGLE

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ZIPPY, GEORGE AND BUNGLE
the original puppets and costume from the British Thames Televison childrens show 'Rainbow', Zippy - a sand coloured towelling head and body with large ovoid head with zippered mouth, white, blue, brown and black felt eyes and separate towelling arm --24in. (61cm.) high (some wear); George - a pink dralon hippopotamus head and body with opening mouth, blue wooden finger-operated closing eyes and separated draylon arm --24in. (61cm.) high (one eye mechanism inoperative); and Bungle - a ginger dralon bear costume with separate head, hand and feet, the head with cut-out eye holes and movable mouth --65in. (165cm.) high; costumes for Bungle - a turquoise and silver tutu and a layered net costume; costumes for Zippy and Geogre - a large quantity of costumes and accessories including aprons, Sherlock Holmes style deer stalker and cape, fake ermine trimmed red velvet cape, simulated snakes skin superhero costume with mask, knitted jumper with sun appearing from behind rain cloud and various hat including pirates, sailors, sun, wool bobble hat and cowboys, all in two suitcases

Provenance

These characters and props were bought direct from Thames Television with a large quantity of costumes from Benny Hill shows and other programmes. The vendor who worked for Thames, left and set up a costume hire company with these outfits.

Literature

See www.rainbow.web.com

Special notice

No VAT will be charged on the hammer price, but VAT at 17.5% will be added to the buyer's premium which is invoiced on a VAT inclusive basis.

Lot Essay

The original Rainbow was made from late 1972 until 1992. From those twenty years, only four or five sets of the characters are known to still exist. They were obviously worn out over the many years of pranking and custard pie throwing, as this set show signs of wear.

Bungle bear, George, a pink hippopotamus and Zippy, an unidentified creature have since become icons of this era, along with Geoffrey Hayes and all-singing and dancing trio Rod, Jane and Freddy. This programme is a key memory for any child of the last 30 years.

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