Happy National Bobblehead Day!

During the seventeenth century, figurines of Buddha and other religious figures called "temple nodders" were produced in Asia.[2] The earliest known Western reference to a bobblehead is thought to be in Nikolai Gogol's 1842 short story "The Overcoat", in which the main character's neck was described as "like the necks of plaster cats which wag their heads".[3] During the nineteenth century, bisque-based bobbleheads were being made in limited quantities for the US market.[2] Many of the bobbleheads in the US were produced in Germany, with an uptick in imports during the 1920s and 30s.[4] By the 1950s, bobbleheads had a substantial surge in popularity, with items made of either plastic or bisque.[2]

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bobblehead