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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Nathan Lindop, post: 354235, member: 5285&quot;]Hey everyone, sorry in advance for the photos, definately rushed them. (Maxed out the photo limit too haha)</p><p><br /></p><p>Anyway, these are two of my favourite things I own and always love to look at often whenever I can and whenever I’m home. Crazy to think that we can afford a Derby figure like this now but in its day it was aristocracy exclusive essentially. I wonder who owned this fellow, I reckon it was definately George III xD.</p><p><br /></p><p>The figure of Milton is 18th Century Nottingham Road period Derby. It has the characteristic Derby patch marks to its base as well as an absolutely terrifying firing crack reaching from one side to the other. Their is a chip to the cape as well as to two laces on his right leg.</p><p>I’ve always been interest what happened to his face, looks like he has one eye looking at me, one eye looking for me. It’s so oddly misshapen in the 18th Century Derby Milton figures but was slimmed in the early 19th Century, wonder if it became a stain on their reputation and made amends later, who knows.</p><p>I bought this figure from eBay for £170 about a year ago.</p><p><br /></p><p>The second figure is a Mid-Victorian Staffordshire Flatback dating to around 1860. I was so excited when I saw this also on eBay since I wanted it to display next to the Derby piece. I picked it up for £20, expecting to pay a lot more but guess I got lucky. It is obviously modelled from the original derby design with some cool changes made, assuredly to make the figure easy to mass produce in basic moulds. The protruding cape, the lavish scroll, the base. During this period Staffordshire figures were at their apex and trends switched from mostly pastoral scenes of the early 19th Century to a more real life subject matter, included portrait figures as the most common as in this piece.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]120453[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]120455[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]120456[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]120457[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]120459[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]120460[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]120461[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]120463[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]120464[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]120465[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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