VINTAGE 1960S LANCASTER AND SANDLAND MR MICAWBER DICKENS CHARACTER JUG WITH YEOMAN EPNS LID

A VINTAGE CIRCA 1955-1968 LANCASTER AND SANDLAND MR MICAWBER DICKENS CHARACTER JUG
WITH A YEOMAN PLATE EPNS RIM. MADE IN HANLEY, STAFFORDSHIRE, ENGLAND IN THE 1960S.
MR MICAWBER HAS A PROPER GENTLEMANS HAT WITH AN ATTACHED WALKING STICK SHAPED HANDLE.

Wilkins Micawber is a fictional character in Charles Dickens's 1850 novel David Copperfield. The thing about Mr. Micawber is that he is incredibly eloquent and well-spoken, but he is also criminally bad with money. Eventually, Mr Micawber is sent to debtors' prison which is a Victorian institution that allows whole families to share a cell with the head of the household who has been imprisoned, so the Micawbers all pile in to Mr. Micawber's tiny cell. While Mr. Micawber is in debtors prison, he and several of the other inmates draft this amazing letter to the House of Commons petitioning for a change in the laws dealing with debt.

MOST CHARACTER JUGS OUT THERE ARE FROM THE ROYAL DOULTON COMPANY AND CHARACTER JUGS FROM SMALLER PRODUCERS ARE HARDER TO FIND.
 
PLEASE NOTEI HAVE VARIOUS CHARACTER AND TOBY JUGS ON AUCTION THIS WEEK. ITS A GOOD TIME FOR ANY COLLECTOR TO ADD TO HIS COLLECTION.
 
MARKINGS: MR MICAWBER
LANCASTER SANDLAND LTD HANDPAINTED IN ENGLAND
MODELLED AND DESIGNED BY TM SANDLAND
THIS LOGO DATES FROM BETWEEN 1955 AND 1968.
RIM MARKED MADE IN ENGLAND EPNS YEOMAN PLATED
 
SIZE: 12CM WIDE UP TO HANDLE EDGE 14CM HIGH
 
CONDITION: NO CHIPS. NO CRACKS. SOME PATINA ON SILVERPLATE. GOOD CONDITION.
 
LANCASTER & SONS (1899-1944):
Manufacture of earthenware at the Dresdon works, Tinkersclough, in the Shelton area of Hanley, Stoke-on-Trent, England between 1899 and 1944.
Formerly Lancaster & Barker - the partners were Frederick John Lancaster, Emily Lancaster and Edward John Barker.
When the partnership of Lancaster & Barker was dissolved in July 1899 the business was continued by Frederick John Lancaster.'& Sons' was added to the company mark in 1906.
At some time was renamed to Lancaster & Sons (Hanley) Ltd. 
LANCASTER & SANDLAND (1944-1968):
From 1944the business was renamed Lancaster & Sandland.
The company went into voluntary liquidation in November 1968.
 
YEOMANPLATE: The Yeoman of England company was first established in Sawbridgeworth, Hertfordshire in 1897 and is today a division of Douglas Pell Silverware(founded in 1972). Pre 1970s Yeoman of England Company mark under their Yeoman Plate trade name.