SML-52  PEGGOTY


SML-52  Peggotty

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reference numbers SML-52: Peggotty (Patent Pending) (M)
SML-52A: Peggotty (M)
SML-52B: Peggotty (Lance 6104)
SML-52C: Pegotty tape measure
description Peggotty sitting on a trunk
dimensions height = 2 1/4 inches
topics and series Topics: Literature in England
Series: Charles Dickens
related or similar items none
first issued/withdrawn/
discontinued forever		 SML-52: (1946/1953/-)
SML-52A: (1954/1975/-)
SML-52B: (1976/-/-)
SML-52C: (unknown)
private issue and/or limited edition & quantity not applicable
era first introduced. Marblehead
value range SML-52: 65/75
SML-52A: 40/60
SML-52B: 25/35
SML-52C: Rare
auction notes none
comments/observations none

GENERAL INFORMATION. From Dickens' novel David Copperfield.  Clara Peggotty is David Copperfield's faithful nurse.  With the other members of the Peggotty family (Dan'el, Em'ly and Ham), she is a great aid and comfort to him in his early childhood.
     Baston portrays Peggotty seated on a trunk digging refreshments out of a picnic basket and "popping buttons off the back of her dress as she always did when she got excited."

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

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."

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