A vintage Wade Disney Ceramic hand painted DOPEY. Made for Woolworths in 1939, its styled on the Disney Snow White and the seven dwarfs film of 1937.

Dopey is approx 10.5cm tall and 5.5cm wide. No chips or cracks,but some paint flakes showing the white underside. Please check out all of the photos.

In 1937 F.W. Woolworth commissioned Wade to make a china figurine of Dopey. The design was licenced from the Walt Disney Company. Executives planned to issue one figure each year from 1938 to 1945, allowing loyal shoppers to build up a full set of dwarves for sixpence each. The price was heavily subsidised, and was intended to support a company maxim 'where sixpence works wonders'. Sadly by the time the next in the series was due, Britain was at war with Germany and the factory was busy making plates for the armed services. Dopey remains a rare and much-loved collectable today.

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