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  1. johnett

    johnett Active Member

    I have no clue what to call this but looks like a bubble blower . Any ideas IMG_1758.JPG IMG_1756.JPG IMG_1757.JPG
     
  2. SBSVC

    SBSVC Well-Known Member

    Yes, a bubble blower pendant! There are lots of them out there (check eBay & Etsy.)
    I believe that even Tiffany had a version.

    I seem to recall that these were very popular in the late 1980's/early 1990's. One of the teens who sometimes came to babysit for my kids always wore one. The kids loved it!
     
  3. johnett

    johnett Active Member

  4. Rayo56

    Rayo56 Well-Known Member

  5. Shangas

    Shangas Underage Antiques Collector and Historian

    A sterling silver bubble-blower.

    Now I've seen everything...
     
  6. quirkygirl

    quirkygirl likes pretty old things

    I have a cute sterling one in the shape of a fish :) bought right around the time frame suggested by SBSVC.
     
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  7. Rayo56

    Rayo56 Well-Known Member

    Right - if only they had ducks to spend their time with - LOL!!
     
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  8. SBSVC

    SBSVC Well-Known Member

    I just found this - a June 28, 1990 article from the archives of the L.A. Times!


    Bubbling Over : A Sterling-Silver Bubble Blower Has Burst Onto the Scene as Celebrities' Trinket of Choice
    June 28, 1990|PATRICIA WARD BIEDERMAN | TIMES STAFF WRITER

    Part bauble, part toy, the Bubbler hangs around some of the best-known necks in town.

    Madonna has one and gave them as Christmas gifts.

    Singer Tina Turner got hers when she turned 50.

    Ron Howard, Darryl Hannah, Pierce Brosnan, Debra Winger, Gary Busey, Emilio Estevez, Stevie Nicks, Dick Van Dyke and Olivia Newton John all have them.

    TV's Maria Shriver, wife of Arnold Schwarzenegger, was given two when daughter Katherine was born in December.

    Supermodel Christie Brinkley was spotted playing with one in an Aspen, Colo., disco.

    "Everybody's got them, from Whoopi Goldberg to Larry Hagman," said Robert Walker, actor and co-owner of Tops Malibu, the functional art shop where the sterling-silver bubble blower is the No. 1 bestseller. That despite--or perhaps because of--its $65 price tag. "It was the hit of Christmas," said Walker, who reports that Tops sold almost 1,000 over the holidays, including a goodly number of gold Bubblers at $350 each.

    So popular is the pricey little plaything that Walker and wife Judy have entered into an agreement with its creator, New Mexico jewelry maker Ted Cutter, and wife Mary Quitzau to market it throughout the United States and abroad. Their new company is called Tops Malibu Wholesale to distinguish it from the Malibu retail store.


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    http://articles.latimes.com/1990-06-28/news/we-755_1_bubble-blower
     
  9. johnett

    johnett Active Member

    Thank you everyone I appreciate it
     
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  11. Belgaqueen

    Belgaqueen Member

    Me too !!!! For the person who has everything !
     
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  12. Belgaqueen

    Belgaqueen Member

    Me too ! For the man who has everything......
     
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  13. Belgaqueen

    Belgaqueen Member

    For the man who has everything !
     
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