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Golden Age of the really fine and elaborately
detailed large houses occurs during just the first few years of the Thirties
- probably from about 1929 thru 1934. It is during this period that the world
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I used to call them"fuzzies,"or "shaggies" and a few other names - but we owe the term "COCONUTS" to Barbara Lovejoy who has not been collecting long, but has hit the essence of this type, as far as I'm concerned, because that's what new-condition "coconuts are like - the shredded coconut on pastries and cakes! |
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are mostly full Cocos - in other words, 100% covered by the shredded cellophane
floss. Fences,bases,walls and roof. More houses are found as partials; the whole
building or very often just the roof in coco, for example. Other parts will
be in flat or in sand stucco. One or two in the background can be seen with
sand bases. The house in the foreground shows one of the harder-to-find pivoted
"candy-filler" hatches on the back, the idea being that you could
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