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I took G1 thru to G5 shopping for their Christmas Presents last week and look what they bought!    Mooks!

A few years ago I had never heard of Mooks but I spied this set of Matryoshka's on Ebay and had to have them.  This is the only thing I have ever bought on Ebay and I fought hard for it and 'won' it at the very last second.

During one of the Grandchildren's sleep overs I was asked which was my largest Babushka... so out came the Mooks.  The children were hooked  :-)  Hence three of them now wearing Mooks shirts!  I should ask for a discount at this rate.
This is what I wrote on my Babushka Blog.
I 'won' these on Ebay... if you can call paying almost $100 a win! Mooks is a very trendy Australian teen street wear store which opened in Melbourne in 1991... These Matryoshka's weren't sold, they were given to shops selling Mooks for either display or to keep. I've never seen anything like them before, they are my largest set at almost 28cm, all hand painted and with stickers on them of the Mooks labels. I am the coolest, trendiest Matryoshka Collector you are ever likely know!

Explanation of Mooks from their Website.

Where does the name Mooks come from.
This question is posed in the classic 1973 Martin Scorsese film, "Mean Streets" and once featured on a now infamous Mooks t-shirt graphic. Mook is old New York slang for a hipster, a hustler, a wiseguy or even a fool.

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