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Peter Ganine (October 11, 1900 – August 11, 1974) was a Georgian-Russian-American sculptor best known for his work in ceramics and his chess sets. Ganine began his art studies in Russia.
Jul 29, 2015 · Ganine was an inveterate anthropomorphizer—he is most famous for redesigning the chess set by adding “austere, thoughtful faces” to the pieces, and for a grinning whale toy that won him a...
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Jan 13, 2019 · Sculptor Peter Ganine is believed to have been the now-familiar generic duck’s primary designer, patenting a toy in 1949 for a period of 14 years. Ganine reportedly sold over 50 million of...
Jan 13, 2021 · Rubber ducks really hit the big time when in 1947, a sculptor called Peter Ganine filed a patent for a duck toy that he had created out of vinyl. Painted bright yellow and including their famous ‘squeaker’, the ducks were reproduced in their thousands and sold across the world.
- The Beginning
- But Why Ducks?
- The Rubber Duck’s Big Moment
- The Rubber Duck’s Legacy
Rubber ducks have been around for about 65 million years. The modern rubber one is a little newer. Basically, it started with “vulcanized rubber”, the stuff that you drive on (and makes time travel possible). In 1844, Charles Goodyear mixed it with chemicals and polymers to make it more durable and patented the process. After that, commercial use o...
Back in the day, due to scarcer freshwater, and harder-to-catch children, bathing was a weekly event. So, in order to entice them to the tub, parents need a distraction. Before the popularity boom, some rubber duckies were based on characters from Disney. In 1933, the Seiberling Latex Products Company licensed a series of Disney characters to make ...
Chances are, your first experience with a rubber ducky took place on Sesame Street. By the early 1960s, the patent filed by Peter Ganine had been lifted (who can patent a duck, really?) Now free from restriction, these cheaply-made, low-cost friends were everywhere. On February 25, 1970, they showed up in a famous bathtub. During the first season o...
Now the duck has gone from a squeaky toy to a $99, Bluetooth-enabled rubber duck one. You can also buy rubber ducks that look like everyone from Elvis, to Donald Trump, to Jesus. Pop-culture has embraced the duck, inspiring everything from Warhol-esque paintings and prints to gigantic, floating sculptures. Ernie’s song has, of course, been mixed an...
Peter Ganine (October 11, 1900 – August 11, 1974) was a Russian-American sculptor best known for his work in ceramics and his chess sets. Ganine began his art studies in Russia.
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In the 1940s, there was a sculptor named Peter Ganine who created a sculpture of a duck and with the invention of rubber and his lightweight design, he decided he was going to patent the toy, have them made in a factory, and sell them in many stores across the world.
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