Kansas City, Here They Come

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Only three 7-foot Jolly Green Giant statues are known to exist. Michael Jackson has one. An unknown collector has the second. And now Kansas City, Mo., shop Bernstein-Rein is the proud owner of the third.

The agency recently purchased nearly 1,000 antique ad-icon figurines, ranging from the Energizer Bunny to Ronald McDonald, and plans to open a museum in town to showcase them. The rare and bizarre items in the collection include a Heinz Aristocrat Tomato (with top hat and ascot) from 1939 and a 1955 tavern display for Heineken with a Dutch boy smoking a cob pipe and admiring a large bottle of the brew.

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