What is the name of this character?

[GreenhornGirl]

I've seen a variety of salt & pepper shakers made in Japan modeled after this character in a yellow hat & rain slicker, with a pipe and a fish slung over his shoulder.  I'm thinking it has to be designed after some sort of character, but I don't know who.  It looks like a mix between Sherlock Holmes, Hugh Hefner, and the Gortons guy.  Anyone know who these "characters" were modeled after?  The closest I've come is someone calling them "Cape Cod fishermen."

[fancypants]

Well , you can always get away with calling @ least one of these little fellers "The Old Salt" &/or "The Salty Fisherman" .

 

[KC]

Agree!

[Oceans64]

My second thought (after Sherlock Holmes) was the Gorden's Fisherman....  He had a beard tho 

[CuriousCollector]

My second thought (after Sherlock Holmes) was the Gorden's Fisherman....  He had a beard tho 

Me, too!  And the jingle has been in my mind ever since....

[GreenhornGirl]

Thanks, all!  (Luckily I don't know that jingle...) 

[KC]

Thanks alot oceans64....now all I can hear in my mind is "Trust the Gorton's Fishermen......"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tN0cPU_0GNc&feature=related

[regularjoe2]

also has been known as 'the Wooster (like the 'sauce') fisherman' , 'the Nor-easter fisherman' , just to get a new tune playin' .... have seen a few 'like' these , with a N.E. 'Lobstah' theme .

[Oceans64]

Thanks alot oceans64....now all I can hear in my mind is "Trust the Gorton's Fishermen......"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tN0cPU_0GNc&feature=related

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