Hello All, we've had a couple of emails about WADE items, and here's a photo of Paul 'cracking open' his tin can containing several dozen of his Wade Tea Figurines that he's had stored for many decades.
When asked why he has Wade Tea Collectible Figurines in his collection, he answered:
My beautiful Grandmother Margaret, my Mom's Mom, loved to drink Red Rose Tea, and more importantly, she loved to collect trinkets and knick knacks, and truly she was instrumental in my continued love of collecting. So at that time I also started to collect my own tea figures along with other stuff that had already caught my eye, and I guess in a way, I've never looked back. -Paul Gillmore
This collection seems to have the following items, (based on paperwork Paul had tucked into the tin) but titles and quantities will be confirmed once fully-opened, catalogued, photographed and put on-line at GC&C:
- Little Miss Muffet
- Angel Fish
- Squirrel
- Mother Goose
- Deer
- Puss & Boots
- Old Lady Who Lived in a Shoe
- Queen of Hearts
- Hickory Dickory Dock
- Little Boy Blue
- Little Bo Peep
- Little Red Riding Hood
- Jill
- Tom the Pipers Son
- Humpty Dumpty
- Little Jack Horner
- Wee Willie Winkie
- Pied Piper
- Dr. Foster
