| Bonzo the dog is a fictional character created by British artist George E. Studdy in the early 1920s. He was a chubby little white pup with sparse black spots, a stubby tail and big blue eyes. Bonzo became the inspiration for much commercial merchandise
Bonzo, wearing a set of headphones, became associated with the "Crosley Pup", an affordable mass-produced AM radio introduced by Powel Crosley Jr. in the United States in 1925. Years later, both Bonzo commercial items and Crosley Pup radios became valuable as collectibles. A papier-mâché Crosley Bonzo is on display at the Smithsonian Museum in Washington, DC.
In the 1960s, Bonzo's name was borrowed for the Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band, an innovative English rock group.
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