On my dresser shelves, various small prehistoric figures, including a plastic vending machine-made Apatosaurus (below, left) from The Field Museum, “cloned” from one originally sold in conjunction with the Sinclair Dinosaur Exhibit at the 1964 New York World’s Fair; (below) a ceramic “anthropology book” (below, right) with a moving lower jaw, purc
hased at a downtown Chicago novelty shop during the mid-1950s; a ceramic sauropod dinosaur model (bottom, left) from Avery Creations; and a tiny ceramic Stegosaurus (bottom, right).
