About this Product
Cowardly Lion Courage Medal, Wizard of Oz 1939 Movie Memorabilia Props Reproductions
This is our interoperation of the movie version, designed and crafted by me and printed on our 3D printer with "Bronze" colored filament and hand embellished. Measures 6inches (15.4cm x 15.4cm). The Cowardly Lion’s badge of Courage is an ornate gold cross with “COURAGE” highlighted in blue and the crest in silver in the center. With a red and white ribbon with a pin to secure it to clothing or the Lion’s costume. A perfect theatrical prop or costume embellishment.
PLA + Antique Gold
3D Printed items 2-3 days, Each are slightly different due to the hand finishes. Measures 15 cm x 15 cm.
In the Book
Lions are supposed to be "The Kings of Beasts," the Cowardly Lion believes that his fear makes him inadequate. He does not understand that courage means acting in the face of fear, which he does frequently. Only during the aftermath of the Wizard's gift, when he is under the influence of an unknown liquid substance that the Wizard orders him to drink is he not filled with fear.
In the 1939 movie version of this classic story,
The Wizard of Oz , the Lion get a Medal from the Wizard that highlights his courage in the face of wicked witches.
Wizard of Oz: Well, you can't. (To Lion) As for you, my fine friend, you're a victim of disorganized thinking. You are under the unfortunate delusion that simply because you run away from danger you have no courage. You're confusing courage with wisdom. Back where I come from, we have men who are called heroes. Once a year, they take their fortitude out of moth balls and parade it down the main street of the city and they have no more courage than you have. But they have one thing you haven't got a medal. Therefore, for meritorious conduct, extraordinary valor, consipicuous bravery against Wicked Witches, I award you the Triple Cross. (Presents him a medal and placed it on his fur) You are now a member of the Legion of Courage. (Kisses Lion)
Cowardly Lion: (Timidly) Shucks, folks, I'm speechless. (Chuckling)
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A.J. Winkies & Co.
Meet the Maker
I've been around this small world going on 73 plus years, have been working for myself most of those years. From my first business as a kid living in rural New Jersey selling rags to my neighbors to starting a worm farm. Yep a worm farm collecting earthworms and selling them in small Chinese food containers near the highway to Spring and Summer fishermen... of course I did the usually grass cutting and lawn upkeep for the city folk who came to the near by lakes and their summer homes.
I went to cosmetology school and had my own shop for a time, went to worked for Glemby International. Then the Etheria/Norell division of Revlon under the great Hal Oakley for a number of years, training counter staff on how to apply trending make-up looks in NYC's big five 5th Avenue department stores (now mostly gone .. how sad). Anyway after a friend was shot 3 times after leaving a night club, I joined NYPPD where I became a Sergeant shortly before I left. I opened a retail copy/graphics center with a friend which in turn became the first all Apple Computer Dealership offering a high end publishing and graphics center in NYC. Went to Japan on behalf of Apple Computers to introduce desktop publishing introduction to Apple Kanji language system to the Mitani Corporation, Apple's new dealership there.
I came back and did some freelance management for companies in the El-Hi (educational textbook marked) before opening my own graphic design business down in the printing district of NYC near Canal and Hudson Streets. The attack on the World Trade Center in 2011 ended that business. I moved on to manage a rather popular watering hole/bar in Greenwich village for a friend of mine while I was planning a new business. The bar thing lasted for about 9 months and then I opened a bookstall (I love books and reading) on the Upper West Side of Manhattan on Broadway near Lincoln Center. Very similar to the ones in Paris, along the Seine River. I sold books while I was still working towards building up a costume design business that become A.J. Winkies & Co.. I was always designing and making costumes for fancy dress and like events; like Halloween Parade, Cosplay and the Mermaid Parades so thats where I decided to migrate my business efforts towards...
I called it A.J. Winkies & Co., the. name came from my best friend's first name (Judi Bendel) (I miss her greatly she passed away some 6 years ago) and mine. Coupled with the name of a character from one of my favorite movies 'The Wizard of OZ,' Winkies was the name of the Wicked Witch of the West's Guards. The Co. part is for my cats always part of my life. Any way one thing lead to another selling my costume designs on Esty and eBay then adding sewing patterns to my list of items in late 2016... and we now arrive to today....
So there you have it a really short poorly written version of the crazy world I have lived....
PS: I left out a great many things but I did not want to bore you to death I felt this was too much as it is....
