Where’s Wally? In the Etwall saleroom

Among the most coveted of all Martinware is the ‘Wally’ bird. These quirky and grotesque jars (really caricatures of people in Victorian London), were produced from the early 1880s onwards and were named after their maker Robert Wallace Martin, one of four brothers who ran the famous British pottery.

One of these prized pieces, a triple-bird group, will be offered for sale at Hansons in Etwall, De…

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