What Were These Called? (Pottery animals)

Were they Whimsies?

Where they Whimsies?

Wade Whimsies I think, I used to have them, very cute.

Gosh we are all of one mind and on the ball.

Oh brilliant! That’s them! Thank you everyone ?
I wonder if you can still get them?
I can remember my tortoise vividly.

They did little houses too, called Whimsey on Why. I have this little Tudor cottage.

Yes, Whimsies. I had a few, still have an ugly 1 lurking somewhere in the house, think its a weasel......

Oh that’s lovely Blossoming
I think I need a trip down 70’s Memory Lane…

I collected them in my teens. Wonder where they are now...

There were Wade Minatures at one time.

Though those may have been smaller.

Did some small ones get given as "free with" gifts, sellotaped to something at some time, years ago?

I had about 40 or 50 of them, collected over years. Now given to the DGC but I'm not sure if they still have them, hope so.

They used to be in Christmas crackers

Wade Whimsie all 12 Complete Sets 1971 - 1984, 60 Whimsies (Perfect)
£179.99

Mine were older than that
I should have kept them!!

StarDreamer

Did some small ones get given as "free with" gifts, sellotaped to something at some time, years ago?

Magazines maybe?
You used to get free stuff on a regular basis years ago.
I remember being given t shirts and all sort in pubs in the 1990’s.
And getting samples of things in the post.
You don’t get anything now like that… (more wistful nostalgia)

Callistemon21

^Wade Whimsie all 12 Complete Sets 1971 - 1984, 60 Whimsies (Perfect)^
£179.99

Mine were older than that
I should have kept them!!

You should have!
We could have come to an arrangement ?

I'm going to ask the DGC if they still have them (bet they went to the school Christmas sale!)

I remember them!! I had something called a Gay Box on my bedroom wall to display them on.

I had a Whimsy Pekinese dog. It was white with pale grey bits. Whatever happened to it I wonder?

Pendelphin ? I used to collect them. Be careful. There are Chinese imitations that just don 'get' it.

Caleo no not Pendelphin. I had loads if those rabbits.
All with those upward looking eyes. I think my mom must have like them, because I wasn’t that crazy about them.

I’ve just bought a little Wade Whimsie spaniel

I have a little red squirrel which peeps out of a pottery bird box, ornamental only, on my conservatory wall.
It must be many years old.
The only one left from my youth.

I still have about 15 Wades Whimsies on my gaybox. A few of them, kittens and bush babies, were free gifts with Fairy liquid around 1963/4. I took them to an Antiques Roadshow a few years back when they came to Boston, was told they were worth around £1 each.

I do not think they make them anymore but try an antiques fair. We always have a box of Wade Whhimsies on our stall. They sell well to children getting bored while parents fossick. We sell them to children for 30 or 40 pence. Adults pay about £1 each.

Ah, we had those as well, in boxes of Red Rose Tea. Thanks for bringing back memories! I don't remember whatever happened to ours, I'll have to ask my older sister, she has a memory for these things.