Leslie Harradine, Royal Doulton
Two figures with the same name, the same pose and the same bonnet, and the difference is in the flowers she is holding.
On the red one every little flower was made separately and applied to the bouquet by hand, one at a time, by a woman sitting at a bench doing nothing else. On the pink one the whole bouquet is moulded in a single piece, with nothing added. That is what Royal Doulton changed to make the figure quicker and cheaper to produce.
Ed has it in both colours at the moment, which almost never happens. He goes through the difference in the video.
Ed Pascoe: what collectors want to know is what the flowers are like.
He modelled most of the Doulton ladies a collector recognises on sight, from 1920 until he stopped in the fifties.
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