The Bovey Pottery Company, closed in 1957, would have passed into collecting history without incident had it not been for the ‘Our Gang’ collection of figures.
This range of caricatures of Second World War types was robustly modelled by artist Gwynneth Holt (1909-95) and architect Fenton Wyness (1903-74). Both were based in Aberdeen in the 1940s.
There are 16 figures in all, each around 8in (20cm) high with a matt buff glaze, including an RAF pilot, an Anzac, an ARP warden, a nurse and ‘The Boss’, Winston Churchill.