As a baby, I was photographed in my pram with a very nice golliwog beside me on the pillow. It had been knitted by my Irish Auntie Lil, and I loved it for years. It got rather chewed up, but my mother darned it regularly.
When I met and married my African husband many years ago, I showed him this old photo, and he laughed. He said, "Who's that African man in bed with you, eh?"
I used to collect the Robertson's golly badges.
But I do in fact think it was as well to stop using the logo. It's very like the Minstrels idea. Unlike border Morris blackface, it does, directly and unflatteringly represent black people in an unpleasant, mocking way.