Maddux for $1

Somehow, there is a compound in North Tustin in which a group of hippies live.  They were nice hippies who happened to have a garage sale.  Besides selling their own art that they made clearly after smoking hippy lettuce and tied-dyed clothing, there was this porcelain cockatoo figurine.

 My sister is a rock-a-billy hipster who collects vintage porcelain and happens to own many birds.  That is why no one sleeps at her house.  One of the birds is an African Gray that mimics the fire alarm and some classless guest taught him how to say, "Hail Satan."  So you wake up at 5 am to the sound of a fire alarm and "Hail Satan."  Pleasant awakening.

My sister is a 5-feet tall, red-headed, Irish and an artist - needless to say, she is always angry.  This figurine would be a great peace offering.

I ask a hippy how much they want for the figurine, to which the hippy (not sure if it was a man or a woman), "that thing?  A buck." 

Turns out, it was a figurine made by Harry William Maddux, a local Southern California artist.  He made figurines from the 1940s until the 1980s.  The year in which a figurine was made depends on the signature.  The one I found was signed "WM Maddux," so it appears it was from the 1940s.

For more information on Maddux, his art and inspiring life story, visit: http://madduxpottery.com