Neville Chamberlain character jug produced by Gibson & Sons of Burslem, England, in 1939. Arthur Neville Chamberlain FRS (1869-1940) was a British politician of the Conservative Party who served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from May 1937 to May 1940. He is best known for his foreign policy of appeasement, and in particular for his signing of the Munich Agreement on 30 September 1938, ceding the German-speaking Sudetenland region of Czechoslovakia to Nazi Germany led by Adolf Hitler. Following the German invasion of Poland on 1 September 1939, which marked the beginning of the Second World War, Chamberlain announced the declaration of war on Germany two days later and led the United Kingdom through the first eight months of the war until his resignation as prime minister on May 10, 1940. An umbrella forms the handle of the jug.
Maker:
Gibsons
England
1939
Model #:
character jug
Size:
medium
Height:
5 1/2"
