I picked up this little creamer guy in an antique store for next to nothing. I thought he might be one of the Cox Palmer Brownie characters. I've been looking at old illustrations and novelty items, and I've been unable to find one exactly like this. The difficulty is that there seem to be a lot of "one-off" characters that were created as needed. Palmer Cox was an early mass marketer and sold his brownies to all kinds of manufacturers. They were on toys, tea sets, dinnerware, illustrations, you name it. Just about anything would sell if it had a brownie image on it. Almost all of the brownie ceramicware was unmarked, as this is.
This guy really seems to have the Palmer Cox look. So far I can't find another like him, Palmer Cox or otherwise. He is made of very light, thin ceramic, like a delicate tea cup. I'm kind of amazed he has survived.
What do you guys think? I was unable to even find a collector group that I could show him to.
