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| Duncan Butterfly kit - No. 1708 |
| Exhibit #2180 |
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| Type | Production |
| Shape | Concave )-( |
| Axle | Fixed |
| Packaging | Poly Bagged |
| Construction | One piece wood |
| Response | None |
| Gap | Fixed |
| Condition | Mint in Package |
| Date | 1963 |
| Owner | Rick Brough |
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From 1963, the Duncan Butterfly yo-yo with "Personalized Kit". Comes with a Duncan wooden Butterfly yo-yo with silver speckles, a sheet of gold letters to stick on the yo-yo so you can personalize it with a name or initials, a 16-page Tournament Trick Comic book, and a pack of two replacement strings. Originally sold for $1.00.
The Duncan Butterfly was first released in 1958. A yo-yo demonstrator named Wayne Lundberg introduced the idea for reversing the traditional tournament-shaped wooden halves and making a yo-yo that had a wider string gap. The wider gap helped kids perform more complex string tricks. While the actual Butterfly design has been around since 1878 (see patent 207527, by William Katz, for "Improvement in bandelore toy", August 27, 1878), Duncan was the first company to actually mass produce them. The Butterfly yo-yo was changed by Duncan from wood to plastic in 1968. In the words of Bob Rule, long time yo-yo player and last demonstrator on Duncan's payroll, "Probably the advancement I see the most is the Butterfly invented by Wayne Lundberg. I called it a bicycle with training wheels but had to accept it as it helped the players advance in skill so fast."
Collected June 19, 2003. | |
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