Vent Haven Museum

Ditty Talk Hawkins was adopted by Carson Scott. Thanks, Carson, for choosing this amazing dummy! Ditty Talk Hawkins is one among four dummies sold to W.S. Berger in 1967 by Ted Estes, son of Lt. Lee Allen Estes. Lt. Estes was a Kentucky State Trooper who used magic and ventriloquism to educate children in school safety shows. He died of a heart attack on January 28, 1967, at the age of 53. His son contacted Mr. Berger about Lee's dummies in February of that year. After h

Thanks to Jeremy Lepak for adopting Johnny. Made by George and Glenn McElroy of Harrison, Ohio, Johnny was used by ventriloquist and magician George Pullin. Mr. Pullin gave Johnny to Mr. Berger in exchange for an Insull figure and $25. Johnny joined the Vent Haven collection on August 23, 1951. Johnny's features are many: winking, moving eyebrows, a light up nose, a stick out tongue, a moving upper lip, and moving eyes to name just some. He arrived in a McElroy case with

Scott Bryte adopted the Spencer double faced dummy at convention. This interesting piece has a great backstory. Ken Spencer made this dummy, which has two mechanisms, for Vent Haven founder W.S. Berger in the spring of 1951. Beginning in 1948, Mr. Berger was interested in Spencer's unique set of dummies, The Rubeville Five. One of the dummies has two faces. When he asked Spencer to make him a similar dummy, Spencer said he would for $35. About four months went by before