This puppet is tickling a memory of a show from the 1960s or 1970s. There is also a possibility that I am totally wrong and this rubber face is just an artist's idea of a puppet. If anyone has an idea of a character or tv show that is should hunt for it would be appreciated.
The very pointed upturned nose, exaggerated overbite, smile with crunched up cheeks, and receded chin make the doll/puppet look like Mortimer Snerd, Edgar Bergen's puppet.
Mortimer went through several upgrades starting out with brown hair and two teeth, to a red head with 4 teeth (2 on either side of a middle gap) to 2 teeth in the right side only, and finally he became a blond.
The original brown hair puppet had bangs, then a widow's peak, when he became a red head he had a spit curl. The blond version had both the curl and a less exaggerated widows peak. None of the versions had curled side burns.
However, the hand puppet head you photographed is probably a knockoff of the real character. All of the real Mortimer characters had missing teeth. Possibly made after Edgar Bergen's death in 1978. While Bergen, and his puppets Charley McCarthy, and Mortimer Snerd did appear on many TV variety shows in the 50's - 60s, he never had a show of his own.
Jerry Mahoney did have a TV show from 1950 to `54, and also appeared on many variety show after that.
Your photos tickled something in my memory, so I did a photo lookup and came up with Jeff Dunham's puppet Bubba J, who is a near match for Mortimer.
