Quote Originally Posted by Michael Parnham View Post
Did any members ever have one as a child? I've just found loads of lovely Gollywogs and Gollywog books on Amazon, they are really cute. When I was a child I had a Gollywog and I think most kids had one as they were for both boys and girls, don't know why some people consider them racist because in my day we never had any reason for racist thoughts because we had never seen a coloured person until later in life and even then we never connected Gollywogs to them!
I had several gollywogs as a child and still have a gollywog garden
ornament [which my neighbour hates]. I also still have 3 jars of Robertson's mincemeat with the paper gollywogs on the back.

Can anybody remember how many paper gollywogs you needed to get a metal one?