SML-049  David Copperfield & Wife


SML-49 & SML-49A  David Copperfield and wife (Dora)

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reference numbers SML-49: David Copperfield and Wife (Patent Pending) (M)
SML-49A: David Copperfield and Wife (M)
SML-49B: David and Dora Copperfield (M)
SML-49C: David and Dora Copperfield (Lance 6102)
SML-49D: David Copperfield and Wife (1982 incisure) (L)
description figure of David Copperfield and wife on a single base
dimensions height = 3 1/4 inches
topics and series Topics: Literature in England
Series: Charles Dickens
related or similar items none
first issued/withdrawn/
discontinued forever		 SML-49 (1946/1953/-)
SML-49A (1953/1968/-)
SL-49B (1968/1975/-)
SML-49C (1976/-/-)
SML-29D (1982/-/-)
private issue and/or limited edition & quantity not applicable
era first introduced. Marblehead
value range SML-49: 65/75
SML-49A: 40/60
SML-49B: 40/60
SML-49C: 25/35
SML-49D: 40/60
auction notes none
comments/observations none

GENERAL INFORMATION. Prescott Baston began his Dickens series with David Copperfield and his first wife, Dora.  Written in 1849 and 1950, David Copperfield emerged as Dickens' masterpiece.  David's marriage to Dora Spenlow, a rattlebrained, childlike woman is followed son after by her death.  David marries Agnes Wickfield at the end of the novel.
     For no apparent reasons, Baston changed the title of the figurine from David to simply Copperfield when he removed the "Patent Pending" from the mold in 1953.  Then again for no reason he added Dora's first name in 1968.

Note: Baston designed a six-sided (hexagonal) base (SML-347) for his Dickens characters, locking them mechanically to a cottage background (SML-61) display. In 1946 he applied for a patent to protect this design motif and he cast the term "Patent Pending" into the base of each Dickens figurine.  In 1953 he was informed that the patent was denied.  All Dickens production form 1946 to 1953 bears the term "Patent Pending."

From Dr. Glenn Johnson's book, The Sebastian Miniature Collection.

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