BAKERTOWNE’S PRICE GUIDE FOR
Popular Royal Doulton Figurines
By: Tammy Kahn Fennell, Matthew Fennell, and Lou Kahn
Copyright 2009 by Bakertowne Valley, Inc
All Rights Reserved.
Copyright and Trademark Information:
The words "Royal Doulton" is a registered trademark of Royal Doulton U.K. Limited and are used herein to show items of collectible interest. This book references various Royal Doulton Figurines, the copyright of which belongs to Royal Doulton U.K. Limited. This book has been produced independently and neither the authors nor the publisher has any connections with
Royal Doulton U.K. Limited.
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This is guide is a realistic and informative look at Royal Doulton Figurines; however, the publisher does not assume responsibility for errors, inaccuracies, omissions or advice. Each individual reader is solely and wholly responsible for any decisions made or actions taken that may be prompted by the material herein.
The Toymaker HN2250
A note about this guide:
These prices were carefully researched. Due to the large number of Figurines, not every single piece and variation is listed. If you need any help, please do not hesitate to e-mail us at [email protected] and we will do our best to get you a price range.
This guide is geared toward prices you can get in the market, but for insurance purposes, please add
35-45% to the range.
Leading Lady HN2269
Rhapsody HN2267
A Brief History:
Royal Doulton began in 1853. The three original partners were John Doulton, Martha Jones and John Watts. Their early pieces were mostly stoneware with an emphasis on decorative bottles and salt glaze sewer pipes.
The company was handed from father to son, and Henry Doulton brought in unique designs by forming relationships with artists and designers from art schools around the area. He also purchased a small factory at Nile Street in Burslem, Staffordshire, which was know as The Potteries region or England.
By the mid 1880s Doulton was incredibly popular. The artistic director, John Slater, brought fantastic designs for figurines, character jugs, vases and other decorative pieces. Doulton was so popular that they were granted the Royal Warrant, which allowed Doulton to become “Royal” Doulton and use new markings indicating it has the Royal seal of approval.
In 1956 their Lambeth factory closed down and transferred all work to the Staffordshire factory, which was in operation until 2005. After 2005 some items were made at the Waterford Wedgwood factory, and many pieces were produce overseas in Indonesia. At the time of writing this book, Royal Doulton has gone into administration and, at this time, no further pieces are being produced.
Forty Winks HN1974
About this guide:
So often, Price Guides base themselves on wishful thinking. This is not one of those guides. This guide was carefully researched with an eye on reality, including the Internet and auctions. We feel that if you are going to start a collection, or if you inherited a collection, you ought to know what you should pay, or what others actually will pay you, for a collection.
We give ranges; for insurance purposes, please use the higher end of the range. An important factor to consider is when your figurine was produced. All Royal Doultons have a trademark on the bottom
(backstamp), and most of them have a date. However, the date is deceiving. Here is a guide to
Trademarks.
This, and this alone determines when your figurine was produced. So, if you have a figurine that says
1928 on it, but it has a 1932-present backstamp, it is not from 1928, just the design is.
Hilary HN2335
A note about investing in collectibles:
All of us here in the USA are quickly finding out the same thing... our dollar is going down in value. There's one fatal flaw with a fiat currency; it isn't backed by anything. Let's take a trip back to pre-
1913, before the Federal Reserve Act. Our dollar now is worth 3 cents of what it was worth back then.
"That's just inflation," you might say. Well take a look at this:
In 1950, you could buy the house you live in for the same amount of gold as it would cost today. In
1950 your house probably sold for around $10-$20 thousand dollars, and today is probably worth over
$200,000. It's a good thing you put it into something of value, like house. But what if a person didn’t put their money in a house, or gold, but instead, just saved it? There's no high yield interest account that could have made you that amount of money even over 50 some-odd years; even worse, what if someone decided to shove $10,000 under their mattress? What a loss they would have taken! That
$10,000 couldn't even buy 1/10 of the same house.
So, how does all of this relate to collectibles?
Collectibles and antiques have something against which you can measure their value. They have rareness. No one can just make more of them to devalue them, much like what is being done to our currency. "I could just buy gold," you might say, and we'd say, yes, you should definitely have part of your portfolio as gold. But the wonderful thing about collectibles is that you actually get to enjoy your investment! Buy a rare book and read it; buy a piece of art and admire it; buy some memorabilia and get lost in the nostalgia of it all! Buy an antique and pass it down, like a family heirloom. Let's face it; you're not going to get the same quality as your grandma's old silver platter at a modern department store. Find a piece with some history and add your own to it!
Online auctions are the perfect place to find these types of treasures. Our store
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Find ways to hang on to your hard-earned cash! In this world of credit and electronic money, we can sometimes lose track of value. We hope all who read this will be inspired to protect their nest egg, and have fun doing it!
Best Wishes,
Tammy, Matthew and Lou
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Julie HN2995 Janice HN2022
Autumn Breezes HN1934 Top O' The Hill HN1834
Lydia HN1908
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- Name
- Description Issued
Light Green 1928-49
- Low
- High
$450
$50
$510 $110
HN1283 HN1298
The Cobbler Sweet and Twenty
Red And Blue-Green 1928-69
- The Flower
- purple red
- $290
- $350
- HN1342
- Sellers Children and yellow
The Mendicant Brown
1929-93
$74 $15 $15 $47
$134
$58
HN1365 HN1368 HN1370 HN1402
1929-69 1930-95 1930-88 1930-75
- Rose
- Pink
$65
- Marie
- Purple
Lavender And Pink
$107
Miss Demure
$130 $150
$90
$190 $210 $150 $310 $390 $210
HN1416 HN1427 HN1433 HN1444 HN1449 HN1464
- Rose
- lavender
- 1930-49
1930-49 1930-51 1931-40 1931-1949 ?-1969 in pink and
- blue
- Darby
The Little Bridesmaid lavender and pink
$250 $330 $150
- Pauline
- blue
- NA
- Little Mistress
The Carpet Seller hand Closed green and orange
The Carpet Seller hand opened Green An
$210 $130 $140 $134
$270 $190 $200 $194
HN1464 HN1476 HN1482 HN1485
1929-?
- Chloe
- Blue
- 1931-38
1931-49 1931-53 brown suit
- red vest
- Pearly Boy
- Greta
- Lavender
$150
$66
$290 $126
HN1493 HN1496
- The Potter
- brown
Purple
1932-92
- 1932-67
- Sweet Anne
Pink Dress With Mauv 1932-37
- $74
- $134
$206
HN1513 HN1517
Biddy
$146
- Veronica
- Red-Cream 1932-51
Red And
$450
$19
$510
$79
HN1528 HN1537
Bluebeard Janet
- Purple
- 1932-49
- Red
- 1932-95
$140 $530 $230
$200 $590 $290
HN1558 HN1586 HN1621
Dorcas Camille Irene
- purple
- 1933-52
1933-49 1934-51
Red And Pink
yellow
$450 $230
$510 $290
HN1632 HN1639
A Gentlewoman Dainty May
1934-49 1934-49 in red and green
$274
$15 $15 $15
$334
$68 $68 $65
HN1656 HN1677 HN1678 HN1679
Dainty May Tinkle Bell Dinky Doo Babie
Lavender Pink
1934-49 1935-88 1934-96 1935-92
Lavender Green yellow and pink
$170
$85
$300 $120
HN1691 HN1705
- June
- 1935-41
1935-49
Purple And
- Blue
- The Cobbler
$270
$54
$330 $114
HN1724 HN1731
- Ruby
- red
- 1935-49
- 1935-96
- Daydreams
- Pink
Pink And Blue
$135
$15
$195
$65
HN1747 HN1768
Afternoon Tea Ivy
1935-82
- 1936-79
- Purple
Pink
$130
$74
$190 $134
HN1770 HN1772
Maureen Delight
1936-59
- 1936-67
- Red
$15 $40 $21 $50 $36
$68
$100
$81
HN1793 HN1798 HN1798 HN1805 HN1809
This Little Pig Lily
- Red
- 1936-95
1936-71 1936-71 1937-59 1937-93 pink
- Lily
- Pink
$110
$96
To Bed Cissie
Green in pink
$290
$24
$350
$84
HN1810 HN1811
Bo-peep Bo-peep in blue in pink
1937-49 1937-95
Green And Blue
$74 $58
$134 $118
HN1833 HN1834
Top o' The Hill Top o' The Hill
1937-71
- 1937-C
- Red
Green And Blue
$400 $114
$670 $174
HN1836 HN1842
Vanessa Babie
1938-49 1938-49
Rose And Green
Biddy Penny Farthing
Green And Lavender
$71 $68 $45
$131 $128 $105
HN1843 HN1849 HN1890
1938-98
- 1938-75
- Top o' The Hill
Lambing Time
Pink Light Brown 1938-81
- $170
- $230
- HN1901
- Penelope
- red
- 1939-75
Orange And Pink
$242
$33
$302
$93
HN1906 HN1908
Lydia Lydia
1939-49
- 1939-95
- Red
$194
$40
$254 $100
HN1909 HN1911
- Honey
- Pink
- 1939-49
1939-76
Green And
Autumn Breezes Pink
$120 $162
$180 $222
HN1922 HN1926
Spring Morning pink and blue 1940-73 Roseanna Marguerite
Pink Pink
1940-59
$186
$33 $40 $42
$246
$93
HN1928 HN1934 HN1935 HN1936
1940-59 1940-97 1940-73 1940-67
Autumn Breezes Red
$100 $102
- Sweeting
- pink
- Red
- Miss Muffet
$400
$61
$630 $121
HN1944 HN1949
- Daydreams
- in red
- 1940-49
Red Dress
Lady Charmain With Green 1940-75
$220
$56
$280 $116
$81
HN1951 HN1954 HN1955
- Claribel
- in red
- 1940-49
1940-C 1940-79
Black And
The Balloon Man Grey
$21
- Lavinia
- Red
red and purple
$160
$82
$220 $142
HN1958 HN1962
Lady April Genevieve
1940-59
- 1941-75
- Red
Red
$162
$66
$222 $126
HN1967 HN1974
- Lady Betty
- 1941-51
1945-73
Green And
- Tan
- Forty Winks
$120 $210
$180 $270
HN1975 HN1976
The Shepherd Easter Day light brown 1945-75 White Lilac
- And Gree
- 1945-51
Red And Cream
$122
$50
$182 $110
HN1977 HN1978
Her Ladyship Bedtime
1945-59 1945-97 in white black base
white
$370 $122
$430 $182
HN1979 HN1981
- Golliwog
- dungarees 1945-59
White And
- The Ermine Coat Red
- 1945-67
$98 $15 $33
$158
$54
HN1982 HN1985 HN1986
Sabbath Morn Darling
- Red
- 1945-59
1944-97 1946-75
White Black Base
$93
- Diana
- Red
Red And Green
- $130
- $190
- HN1989
- Margaret
- 1947-59
Flowered Pink Dress 1947-52
$194
$34
$254
$94
HN1990 HN1991
Mary Jane
Blue Brown
- A Country Lass And White
- 1975-81
Blue Pink
$82 $33
$142
$93
HN1991 HN1992
- Market Day
- And White
Red And
1947-55
- 1947-96
- Christmas Morn White
$210 $370 $210 $170 $210 $114 $330 $350 $234
$270 $430 $270 $230 $270 $174 $390 $410 $294
HN1994 HN1995 HN1996 HN1997 HN1999 HN2002 HN2003 HN2008 HN2011
Karen Olivia Prue
- Red
- 1947-55
1947-51 1947-55 1947-79 1947-49 red and green
red white and black
in red and
Belle O' The Ball white
Red And
- Cream
- Collinette
Bess
Red Cloak Flowered C 1947-69
in pink dress
- purple
- Bess
- 1947-50
1948-53 1948-53
Philippa Of Hainault blue brown and red
Red And
- Purple
- Matilda
Margaret of Anjou
Green And Yellow
- $290
- $350
- HN2012
- 1948-53
Sir Walter Raleigh
Orange And Purple
$258
$54
$318 $114 $114
HN2015 HN2016 HN2017
1948-55 1949-97 1949-01
Brown And
- Mauve
- A Jester
Silks and Ribbons
Green White And Red
$54
Patterned White Dres 1949-71
- $82
- $142
$290
HN2019 HN2020
Minuet Deidre in blue and pink
$230
1949-55
$100
$50
$160 $150
HN2021 HN2021
Blithe Morning Blithe Morning
- in pink
- 1949-71
1949-71
Mauve And Pink
Green And Cream
$186 $130 $194 $258 $106 $290
$246 $190 $254 $318 $166 $350
HN2022 HN2026 HN2030 HN2031 HN2032 HN2033
- Janice
- 1949-55
Flowered
- Pink Dress 1949-59
- Suzette
Memories
Pink And
- Green
- 1949-59
Granny's Heritage
Lavender And Green 1949-69
Green And
- Jean
- Red
Pink
1949-59 1949-55
Midsummer Noon reddishbrown
$60 $15 $34
$120
$65
HN2036 HN2037 HN2038
- Pearly Girl
- 1949-59
1949-89
Goody Two Shoes
Red And Pink
$94
- Peggy
- red and white 1949-79
$140 $190
$200 $250
HN2039 HN2039
Easter Day Easter Day Golliwog
- NA
- 1949-69
multi-colored 1949-69 Blue
$162
$66
$222 $126
HN2040 HN2045
Dungarees 1949-59
She Loves Me
- Not
- Blue
- 1949-62
Once Upon A Time pink dress with whit
$230
$19
$290
$79
HN2047 HN2048 HN2054
1949-55 1949-88 1950-92
Mary Had a Little
- Lamb
- Lavender
Brown
- $22
- $82
Falstaff green yellow
The Leisure Hour and bro
$230
$66
$290 $126 $110
HN2055 HN2057 HN2057A
1950-65 1950-59 1975-81
The Jersey Milkmaid
Blue White And Red
green white and brow
$50
The Milkmaid The Bedtime Story pink white yellow an
$160
$60
$220 $120
HN2059 HN2060
1950-96 1950-71 green white
- and blac
- Jack
$34 $66
$94
HN2062 HN2065
Little Boy Blue Blithe Morning
Blue Red
1950-73 1950-73
$126
$530 $370 $140 $770
$98
$750 $430 $200 $830 $158 $238 $370 $400
HN2066 HN2068 HN2070 HN2071 HN2073 HN2075 HN2077 HN2078
- Minuet
- Red
- 1950-55
1950-53 in green and
- brown
- Calumet
Bridget Bernice Vivienne in green brown and l 1951-73
in pink and
- red
- 1951-53
1951-67 1951-55 1951-55 1951-55
Red Brown And
$178 $310 $100
French Peasant Green red and
- green
- Rowena
Elfreda
Red And Purple
$1,170
$720
$1,230 $1,000
HN2079 HN2082
- Damaris
- XX
- 1951-52
1952-C red and
- black
- The Moor
$150 $138 $138 $258 $210 $106 $194 $200 $130 $200 $130
$75
$500 $198 $198 $318 $270 $166 $254 $260 $190 $260 $190 $135 $222
HN2084 HN2085 HN2086 HN2087 HN2088 HN2090 HN2091 HN2092 HN2098 HN2100 HN2102 HN2103 HN2104
King Charles Spring
- XX
- 1952-92
Lavender And Cream 1952-59