This is a buy it now for the "Annette in Hawaii" stand up paper doll set shown in the photos. Annette was based on Annette Funicello, the American actress and singer. I have owned the doll set since I bought it as a young child back in the early 1960s for the princely sum of 29 cents and, as far as I am aware it is complete, as there are still the 38 items that are mentioned on the cover. Incidentally, although the cover says "1969" in the top-right hand corner, that cannot be the date of publication and I am sure I bought it around 1961 (based on my age at the time) which was actually the copyright date that is shown in the bottom left hand corner of the cover.

All of the clothes were very carefully cut out by me and as you can see they are still all in fantastic condition and all of the tabs are in place. There are no tears or other damage to any of the pieces which are made of quite thick paper which has allowed them to last so long in their original condition. The book they came in is also in very good shape with lovely vibrant colours.

I shall also be including a machine signed photograph of Annette Funicello as well as a badge and a card that I picked up when I was lucky enough to meet the lady back in 1993 when she was promoting a fragrance called "Cello by Annette" in Longs Drug Store in Bakersfield California. That's actually me in the photo in the press cutting that you can see above that I shall be including with the set. Unfortunately Ms Funicello, who was once a well known "Mouseketeer" in the Mickey Mouse Club on TV, was battling MS at the time (which meant she couldn't sign the photo herself at the time) but nevertheless she lived for another 20 years after I met her.

I think this must be a rare collectible item and I imagine that they do not come up for sale very often in the UK and I would really like it to go to a nice new home having treasured it for so many years myself.

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