Neville Chamberlain character jug produced in a green colorway by Shaw and Copestake of Longton, England, circa 1940 using its SylvaC tradename. 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.
Maker:
Shaw and Copestake
England
circa 1940
Model #:
1463
character jug
Size:
large
Height:
6 1/2"
