Featured Burns character spill/match holder

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Really like this, soo murky

Was one of those, oh it's not priced will give matey a ring

Walking round the shop thinking say 20, say 20, bet he says 50

I was sure it was a Johann maresch as that's what it looks like, but the marks are wrong for that

Can't find another like it in German made form

Any thoughts appreciated(luckily he said £10 but there is some damage)

 

Oh sugar, questions questions, anyone have an idea of maker or age

Thanks

 

Dunno but the combination of textures is very successful.

Debora

 

Yeah especially the legs, thinking about it I wonder if they are the strikers

 

Nice piece . I think he dates to early 20th c and agree he’s a match holder and striker.

 

At first I thought this said "TRADE GERMANY", but the spelling seems a bit off............? BUT, he sure is CUTE!!!!!!!!!! What's with his leggings???

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Hi Aqui

Yeah there's a very indistinct 'in'

In the middle, so as johns says probably early 20th instead of 19th

I think the leggings as you put them are that way for lighting the matches, textured to get a good strike

 

These are the closest I've found so far, seller describes them as cold painted terracotta

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/AUSTRIAN...TA-STATUE-ANTIQUE-GYPSY-FIGURINE/254132678871

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/25413274...ic&brand=Gypsy&_trksid=p2563228.c101113.m2108


Very similar in appearance, but nothing really definitive in description of them

 

Wooly knicker socks?

 

Hubba hubba !!

 

I like him. I probably would have bought him and kept him.

 

@charlie cheswick - VERY cool match striker. Have never seen one like it before.
I found tobacco tins from STEPHEN MITCHELL & SON GLASGOW TAM O'SHANTER TOBACCO Tins https://www.ebay.com/itm/294224762665?hash=item4481299729:g:R80AAOSwX1dghUNE

And https://www.ebay.com/itm/154404369551?hash=item23f337b48f:g:6gIAAOSw5tZgbFhu

 

Thanks dizzy, that's interesting that there's a tobacco connection as well

 

Also found - "This piece represents characters from the Robert Burns poem, ''Tam o'' Shanter. Set in the late 18th century"

https://www.ebay.com/itm/303744069798?hash=item46b88eb0a6:g:ynQAAOSwmYpfmY0Y

 

Tam was a popular theme in decorative arts. Tableware and Toby mugs for example... here is an early Ridgeway pitcher with the witches' chase. They are still making cheap, knock-off "grandmajolica". I occasionally see them at the thrift stores.

 

Only one I've found even similar https://www.etsy.com/listing/460045982/antique-ceramic-french-germany-deponirt?ref=market_rv-1&pro=1