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Horse figure of the day: Dam Troll Horse

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My little troll family. I don't think I've ever shown them here.

I loved playing with trolls when I was little. I'd build cabins for them from sticks and flowers, and I even made little beds and tables and chairs for them. They and their homes disappeared at some point, so it's been fun to acquire a few as an adult. All but one look like the trolls I had. The one in the middle with the green shirt has a Dam stamp on its foot, so it's possibly much older than the others!

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Doll haul from a doll show today!

The table and chairs are so cute but they’re a weird size - definitely smaller than 1/12 scale - so idk what I’ll do with them. Looking forward to finding clothes for my mermaids - I have so many cute 1/12 scale outfits. Obsessed with the Heidi Ott doll.

Some recent non-show acquisitions:

I love the hair color, but it’s really thin so I might fill it in with anything similar I can find in my stash. Will probably repaint her extra eyes as they’re kind of fading into her head. Needs something brighter.

4 sets of nesting dolls to paint. So excited to experiment more than I dared to with my first set!

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Who else loves these sweet little trolls? I know lots of people think they’re ugly, but to me the fact that they’re not conventionally attractive makes them endearing. Their wrinkled faces, innocent expressions and soft hair reminds me of a newborn baby.

But their backstory makes me love them even more:

“Troll dolls were created in 1959 by Danish fisherman and woodcutter Thomas Dam. Dam could not afford a Christmas gift for his young daughter Lila and carved the doll from his imagination. Other children in the Danish town of Gjøl saw the doll and wanted one. Dam's company ‘Dam Things’ began producing the dolls in plastic under the name ‘Good Luck Trolls.’ It became popular in several European countries during the early 1960s, shortly before they were introduced in the United States. They became one of the United States' biggest toy fads from the autumn of 1963 to 1965. The originals were of the highest quality, also called Dam dolls and featuring sheep wool hair and glass eyes. Their sudden popularity, along with an error in the copyright notice of Thomas Dam's original product, resulted in cheaper imitations.” (Taken from Wikipedia.)

Would anyone like to help me pick out names for my trolls? Maybe some Norse or Danish names. 😄