While my wife has always enjoyed using and collecting "Doulton", my how things have changed over the years! This dining plate is an example of what happened to Royal Doulton, now part of Fiskars (Finland) along with other distinguised English names such as Waterford, Wedgwood, Royal Albert and others ... sad!
Collectively the holding company is called WWRD, HERE is some background to them
Tree Toys (Registered trademark) is a company based in Taiwan who undertake product development for Fiskars amongst others. If you wanted to see just how much product they shipped to USA on behalf of WWRD, take a look HERE and be amazed!
ROYAL DOULTON - Child's Dining Plate
Circa 2000's
Material: Melamine
Semi-translucent, if you hold the plate to the light you can faintly see your fingers through the plastic.
Bunnykins ABC Series created by Tree Toys ®
Child's Dining Plate
Design: Unisex - the bunnies depicted are a mix of boy and girl rabbits in various clothing and alphabet blocks A ~ F in the central area of the bowl.
Traditional Bunnykins "running rabbit" around the outer edge of the plate.
Cream background
Transfer ware decorated
Measures: 220mm diameter (edge to edge) 150mm diameter (recessed central area) x 18mm deep
Weight: 150g
IMPRESSED BACKSTAMP DETAILS:
See the rear photograph but if difficult to read ...
Do not use in microwave (downwards curving arch)
Bunnykins graphic design
by
Royal Doulton © 2002 R.D Bunnykins ®
TREE TOYS (graphic design) ®
2
dishwasher safe top rack only
COSMETIC CONDITION:
USED (Barely)
My wife once collected "Bunnykins" melamine and she has decided that "era" has passed (kids grown up) and this plate has been sitting in her display cabinet ever since ... unused since around 2005 (in fact it was only used once anyway)
CLEAN
NO damage to the melamine at all
NO damage to any of the graphic transferware
NO hideous marks or scratches
As this plate is now "out of the cabinet" and looking for a new home, I have sealed it within clear plastic to maintain the condition and it is now sitting patiently in our spare room waiting for a new home.
