Dick and Jane Figurine? - With DC Pottery Mark on Base?

by Tanya
(Calgary , Alberta .)

Dick and Jane Figurine? - With DC Pottery Mark on Base?:- Hello, I found this figurine it is damaged the leg is missing. I like it tho. Its very cute. I was wondering if you think it may be Dick and Jane? It seems to have a DC mark on the bottom.I've looked online to try and find something similar but have found nothing? If you have any thoughts on it and like to share that would be nice . I've attached a few pictures.

Thanks,

Tanya Rochat

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Title:- Dick and Jane Figurine? - With DC Pottery Mark on Base?

Hi Tanya

Many thanks for submitting your clear photos and story of your figurine. Hope you are finding the site generally useful.

Not actually sure about your figures as I haven't come across anything I can remember quite like them. They do have a certain quaint charm.

Although to me they do have the look of being from the 1930's USA, they also have a very mass market style of knock-em-out fast type kitsch styling.

Equally though they could be in that same Japanese post war 1950's knock-them-out type of mass production.

OK, your theory about the characters being Dick & Jane. I would possibly go along with that if there were other Dick & Jane figurines to be found. I couldn't find any or any references to any ever being made. That's not to say there weren't any made, but if there were, they must be very rare. The original books and cutouts are now collectible, sometimes selling for over $200 per lot.

They would only be American because the UK and Europe don't have the Dick & Jane books, so that leaves only US ceramic producers.

Of course Goebel of Germany are world famous for making children sculptures from the illustrations of Sister Maria Innocentia Hummel, so this establishes the genre as a potent one. However, I have never come across any figures of Dick & Jane. If such figures existed why are there none around now?

According to the entry in Wiki, the Dick & Jane books were used as early stage reading aids for children mainly from the 1930's - 1960's. The Dick and Jane series was written by William S. Gray and Zerna Sharp and published by Scott Foresman. In later years they began to look dated in their content and methodology.

I also don't know any DC pottery mark, and the photo is too distant and blurry to see any mark.

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