Royal Doulton Figurine The Tailor HN2174 DB480 Darby & Joan was designed

Darby & Joan  was designed by Leslie Harradine and produced by Royal Doulton from 1949 to 1959

and clean examples in the Reflections series continue to attract steady collector interest on both sides of the Atlantic

As a single-year limited edition of 3

making Buddies one of the longer-running pieces in the Child Study series

The detailed period costume and authentic instrument rendering make this piece appealing to music collectors

Royal Doulton Figurine The Tailor HN2174 DB480 Darby & Joan was designedThe Tailor (HN2174) was designed by Mary Nicoll and issued from 1956 to 1959, standing 5 inches tall. Three years of production one of the shortest windows in the character figure range, and a reliable indicator of a piece that collectors need to look for rather than simply finding in the usual channels. Nicoll modelled The Tailor as part of a sustained programme of occupation and craft studies in the mid to late 1950s, a series that includes The