Budge, Toddie and Boy Removing Coat: three Royal Worcester extinguishers from the Helen's Babies series


Dated 1882-3The children in clothes far too big for them, all in gilt and tinted colouring, 10cm, 10.9cm and 9.4cm high, date marks for 1882 and 1883
|John Habberton's book 'Helen's Babies' published in 1876 was an instant success. It tells the story of two little boys, Budge and Toddie, left in the care of their bachelor uncle for ten days. The Royal Worcester extinguishers were inspired by an episode in the book when the boys find a trunk full of their uncle's clothes and try them on. See Tony Horsley, Distinguished Extinguishers (1999), p.57.