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The Aardman plasticine character was sold along with a letter from its creator Peter Lord. The

2026-01-16
The Aardman plasticine character was sold along with a letter from its creator Peter Lord. The There’s something almost magical about holding a piece of history that wasn't just *made* – it was truly *willed*. This specific lump held the secret clay for Morph from The Muppety Adventures. It started as eight simple inches, then transformed under Peter Lord's hands into the character kids would dance with forever after.

But this isn't inert clay; it’s plasticine you could buy at a pound shop next week and still smell faintly of childhood – or maybe just old pennies? Because Peter Lord must have used his own fingers for that special bit of molding. Think about the sheer *will* involved in taking simple material and shaping something destined to leap off pages with imagination, right?

And while it might look like a standard model kit piece at first glance (does anyone even remember these things?), its power lies elsewhere – beyond just being rare stuff. It matters because Lord poured his soul into that lump; maybe he was thinking of all those years messing around before the big time? The £1,000 price tag doesn't speak rarity so much as it speaks *memorabilia*. After all, you can probably buy a similar piece from back then now, but this one has Peter Lord's own scrawl. What do you bet he just loved writing those letters to his kid about the adventures of this clay creation?

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