This marionette was designed, carved, painted, strung and dressed by Pip Fisher (1933-2009). As a schoolgirl in Colchester from 1945, Fisher's main interests were in model theatre and marionettes, and in 1949, aged only 16, she successfully auditioned for Jan Bussell, creator and director with his wife Ann Hogarth of the Muffin the Mule television broadcasts from 1946 until 1955, winning a contract through Woman’s Own Magazine to spend a year from September 1949 travelling the country presenting her show as The Woman’s Own Puppet Theatre. With her mother, a driver, and her troupe of sixteen marionettes, she covered 14,000 miles and forty counties in England and Scotland, performing in village halls, Women's Institutes, factory canteens, youth clubs, hospitals and schools.

Fisher made more puppets on their return and worked in Margate with Christine Glanville doing summer and Christmas shows. After working with Glanville, Fisher performed on her own as The Masque Marionettes, performing shows including Variety acts and abridged versions of plays by Shaw and Wilde. Fisher's sister remembers seeing the Ice Skater marionette in a performance in St. Helier when she was new in 1954, and how her dress shone under ultra-violet light.

The agent Al Heath spotted Fisher in 1952, and for the next four years Phyllis Fisher and her Puppets appeared all over the country in revues including Une Nuit a Montmartre at Blackpool Palace Theatre from March to April 1952, and May Music Hall at London's Scala Theatre, shown on BBC television on 31st May 1952, and in the pantomime Cinderella at Christmas 1952 at the Colchester Playhouse. In 1953, aged 20, she travelled alone on the steamer ship T.S.S. Jaljawahar, spending June to October in India and Pakistan presenting her puppet act Puppetually Yours. The next two years brought tours with the European Armed Forces Professional Entertainment Branch, entertaining troops in Germany in 1954 with her show Here Come The Girls. In 1955, her show Something for the Boys took her to Tunis, Tripoli, Tobruk, Fayid, Aqaba, Rabat, Marrakesh, Casablanca and Cairo, presenting her show and performing in the chorus line when necessary. After her work abroad she continued to entertain with her puppet troupe throughout the UK, and in May 1959 was part of Jersey's winning St. Helier team in BBC Television's Top Town Variety competition. In 1961 she began working with Christine Glanville on Gerry and Sylvia Anderson's Supermarionation television puppet shows Fireball XL5 (1961-1962), Stingray (1962-1964) and Thunderbirds (1964-1966). From 1963 onwards Pip combined her puppetry work with her interests in marine biology, an interest that took over all her puppetry work from the mid-60s and resulted in her becoming a respected marine biologist and Fellow of the Linnean Society.