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Derbyshire Lions or something else?

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mrvaselineglass:
very new.  like, the last 10 years with steady production in a bajillion colors.

Sid:
Hello:

Beyond the wild colours made by Summit, there are very distinctive differences between the Summit lions and the Greener? lions as mentioned by Dave.  They become very apparent when you get them side by side or even examine photos.  Some, but not all, of the Summit lions are signed with a V.

Sid

Bernard C:
TC — I have always been unhappy about attributing these lions to Greener, and about their date.   As far as I know, there is no evidence of either, and they could easily be 1920s imports.    Their frequent chipped condition is, perhaps, more indicative of a toy box rather than of age.   The problem we have now is that everyone knows what you mean by a "Greener" lion.

I wonder if they are in one of the early books, like Manley or Lattimore?

I have wondered whether they might be from the same stable as the not quite Sowerby candlesticks, and the not quite Derbyshire "Spell" vases.

Bernard C.  8)

Lustrousstone:
While on the pottery board I followed a link that led to this chappie and was struck by his resemblance to the glass lions, must have been quite the thing in the 1890s

josordoni:
I'm pretty sure they were all based on Landseer's Lions for the base of Nelson's column - they were put in place in 1867, and were extremely famous at the time, so it would be expected that models of them would have been made in all sorts of media.

http://www.victorianweb.org/sculpture/misc/landseer3.html

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