Starting tonight and continuing over the next 3 weeks I have a large collection of fantasy, Russian fairy tale and Cecily Mary Barker Flower fairy plates for sale – about 80 different plates in total!

These are from the best manufacturers: Royal Doulton, Border Fine Arts, Heinrich Villeroy Boch & Crown Staffordshire amongst others.

Cecily Mary Barkers flower fairies were first published in the 1920s, each fairy is associated with a flower and comes with its own cute poem for example:.

The Snapdragon fairy :

Into the Dragons mouth he goes;

Never afraid is he!. There’s honey

Within for him, he knows, Cleaver

Old Bumble Bee! The mouth

Snaps tight; he is lost to sight-

How will he ever get out?

He’s doing it backwards – nimbly

Too, though he’s somewhat stout!

Off to another mouth he goes;

Never a rest has he.

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Circus Clown Plate by Heinrich Villeroy Boch