For the Cute Little Deer with the Bear Behind

Paddles like that would show up in the novelty or gag gift displays in dime stores and cheap gift shops. Actually remember seeing the deer and bear one years ago.
Others said things like for use on naughty ones from six to sixty, or grandma's paddle .
Another I remember said " never hit a child in the face;nature provides a better place." Now that is definitely not something we would want to see for sale. But substitute the word "brat" for child and that would be fine!
The part about not hitting the face reminds me of the story that appeared years ago involving actress Anita Ekberg that she came home intoxicated and got aggressive and violent with her husband.
So he was quoted as saying he did not want to hit her in the face,so "gave her the reddest bottom you ever saw," That account can probably be found on some site about actual spankings that is still around,like the old SFR, don't know if they are alive still.
Come to think of it, a novelty paddle like that is the implement of choice in a story I wrote, " Pam Pushes It Too Far."

There's one with rhymes on it. You should be able to pull it up via a Google image search. It says:

For noisy guests
And folks that cuss
For swatting pests
And kids that fuss
For taming brides
And winning wagers
For tanning hides
Of smart teenagers
For stopping hiccups
Fights and spats
For puddling pups
And careless cats
For mice and ants on picnic trips
For paddling pants when baby drips
For wives at night
When hubby' s late
For counting right
On a birthday date

And yes...it does have illustrations on the right hand side. It's titled - Family paddle. A spanking stick for all family occasions and at the bottom says - Use at your own risk

RSL was that Ekberg's first husband, or her second? If it was the second, his name was Rik Van Nutter (no, I am not making it up) and he's probably best known for playing Felix Leiter in Thunderball. He wasn't a great actor, he probably got the role because of Eon's association with Ekberg, she starred in Call Me Bwana with Bob Hope, one of only 2 non Bond films the company made (the other was Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, and possibly doesn't count because it was also based on an Ian Fleming novel). They did a bit of cross promotion of the film in From Russia With Love.

Yes, SeeGee it was Von Nutter. Thanks for the interesting info about the James Bond connection. No spanking in Bond movies, but he did make a number of threats in the books.

Well, Felix Leiter says very little in "Thunderball," as I recall his main function is to pilot a helicopter for James Bond.

There were a lot more actors who portrayed Leiter than there were that played Bond, I believe, and only a couple of them (David Hedison and Jeffrey Wright) did so in more than one motion picture--those two versions of the guy struck me as the most developed portrayals in the films.

In "Goldfinger," Bond [played by Sean Connery] does give a minor female character, his masseuse at a Miami hotel, a sharp slap on her derriere in dismissing her (to engage in "man talk" with Leiter), while in "Thunderball" he [Connery again] threatens Miss Moneypenny (over the telephone) that he will "put you over my knee," but she laughingly dismisses the threat.

Ahhhh, I still feel quite nostalgic about those two Bond movies, the first ones I watched as a kid... --C.K.

I wrote a story based on one of those paddles, called "The Bear Behind"

The whole in joke about different actors playing Felix began with Goldfinger when Jack Lord demanded equal or better billing than Connery. Up until Jeffrey Wright took on the role in Casino Royale and then reprised it in Quantum of Solace, the only other actor who played it twice was David Hedison and that was nearly 20 years in between films for him (Live and Let Die, Moore's first, and Licenced to Kill, Dalton's second and final). Connery as Bond never actually spanked any of his co-stars, but he did threaten to put Moneypenny over his knee in Thunderball, and he smacked a bikini clad girl at a pool in Goldfinger quite soundly on the behind. You can hear the smack and the squeal, although it may have just been sound effects.

Board of Education was a popular model that sat in the souvenir/rest stop store/restaurant right next to the pecan loaves.
I used eBay to buy my beloved copy of Superboy December 1961. Several stories that are a sequel of sorts to "Lana Lang's Superboy Identity Detection Kit!" are available at Chross including my own humble effort.

The paddle arrived in the mail today. I had written a long detailed description of it, but it disappeared before I could post it. I've had a laptop with a touchscreen for several months now, but it still does things that I don't intend it to do, and I don't know why. One day I have to get my old desktop fixed. The paddle is 15 inches long, 2 and 3/8 inches wide, and 7/32 inch thick. It weighs 2 and 1/2 ounces. The blade is 10 and 3/4 inches long. There is a hole in the handle for hanging the paddle on the wall. Besides the afore mentioned logo, there is lettering on the handle, "Grip here firmly in case of frustration." The logo is faded, but still readable. A couple of things have been spilled on the paddle, possibly bleach and paint, but thankfully in small amounts. Now for the part of the description that I believe you will find most interesting. On the reverse side, almost all of the blade is lighter in color and smother in texture than the rest of the paddle. Could it have been worn down by contact with someone's bottom? There may be some other explanation, but I prefer to think that someone has been spanked with it, A LOT! I smacked the paddle into the palm of my hand, not too hard, and it definitely has quite a sting.
So now I have the paddle of my dreams. All I need is someone to spank me with it. Maybe if I give my ex wife a really nice Christmas present...

Way back in my late-teenage years, I owned several souvenir-style paddles, all of which were eventually misplaced at some point during my twenties, it seems. A couple had the caption "HEAT FOR THE SEAT," one was rather crudely illustrated showing a young kid in a drop-seat pajama outfit (but with the rear flap still in place). The other, a more solid model which I purchased in Florida, showed a caricature of the Coppertone trademark, a little girl whose swimsuit bottom (she had no top but seemed only around four years old) was being pulled down in the back by a playful puppy, leaving her cute derriere mostly exposed--in the drawing on the paddle, the girl had a teardrop on her unhappy-looking face and her bare bottom was reddened slightly, while the puppy was missing. The lettering on that paddle's back was stylized with small red flames, it was reasonably good artwork for an inexpensive tourist product.

(Coppertone's trademark little girl has apparently been "politically corrected" in these days of concern over 'kiddie porn.')

I also purchased a "FOR THE CUTE LITTLE DEER WITH THE BEAR BEHIND" paddle at the same time (while on vacation in Florida), in size and shape identical to the latter "HEAT FOR THE SEAT" one, but I don't recollect the fawn and bear cub having spanked rear ends in the illustrations of them--it did have a fairly small "GRIP HERE FIRMLY IN CASE OF FRUSTRATION" notation in black lettering on the handle, if I'm remembering correctly over the decades.

Finding souvenir paddles in tourist-type shops wasn't too difficult back then, but unfortunately those places didn't provide the strict females I desired to wield them... --C.K.