Tony Weller bust designed by Leslie Harradine and Harry Fenton and produced by Royal Doulton of Burslem, England, from 1939 to 1960. Tony Weller, the coach driver and repository of Cockney wisdom, is a popular character from Charles Dicken's "Pickwick Papers", first published in 1836. He is the father of Sam Weller, Mr. Pickwick's manservant. Experience of life has turned him into something of a philosopher, mistrustful of "vidder" and a staunch believer in the virtue of a "haliby." His wife, Susan, is the proprietor of the Marquis and Granby Inn in Dorking. Susan falls in with the hypocritical Reverend Stiggins, of the Brick Lane Temperance Association, who the frequently imbibing Tony later exposes. The number 8318 is incised on the bottom of the bust.
Maker:
Royal Doulton
England
1939 - 1960
Model #:
D6051
Derivative
bust
Size:
small
Height:
3 1/4"
