WEIRDOES

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Some ANRI stoppers are just plain weird, there's no other name for them.
Here are some of the weirdest in my collection.

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Press down the lever on this kind of stopper and its eyes roll back into its head and an evil looking, pointed, "devil tongue" pops out.  Just exactly what message we're supposed to get from this one no one knows.

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"Head In Head" types are the most bizarre of all, I think.  Press the lever down and the hat lifts,
and up comes another, smaller head.  Sometimes the smaller head is fully carved with another face.
Sometimes it's just a wooden bead with a face painted on it.  Another variation is one with a small
bird inside.  Collectors call it the "bird brain."

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These first two are also Head-in-Heads, but the second one is really neat.  His left eye is covered with a handkerchief for some reason.  My late friend, Bill Kneisel, called these "Dead Eyes."  The one on the right is a gnome that sits on a mushroom perch, and the inside head is the most well carved one I've seen.  The entire stopper, mushroom and all, can be seen on the "Oldies, Oddies and Favorites" page.

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I love "hat flippers" or "two faced" stoppers.  The pictures above aren't 4 different stoppers, but two.
In this model you have two totally different faces carved on opposite sides of one head.  You see only one until you flip the hat back and forth.  With the white hat, the two faces represent a white person
and a Black person.  In the big black top hat, you see a brown eyed person and a blue eyed person.
Others combinations made were, happy/sad, young/old, man/woman, and there may be more.

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