No, the 1946 version of the collection became a recognized registry decades before 1987. From the link in the article, the April 1957 issue of Mechanix Illustra

No, the 1946 version of the collection became a recognized registry decades before 1987. From the link in the article, the April 1957 issue of Mechanix Illustrated: > As secretary of the European division of the [International Circus Clown Club] Bult keeps a file of faces so that clowns can avoid copying each other. Each clown's make-up is his professional, jealously guarded property. Just this one half-paragraph seems like enough to define the Hall of Faces.