Bonzo Bookend

James? Would that be a first or last name signal red????

Alternatively signalred if there's something you would like to contribute here you could post the actual information - this is a members based site and all contributions are greatly appreciated - at the moment Ev is doing all the heavy lifting.

I'm not interested in the money side of the secondary market in commericial or studio ceramics but am very interested in information and the resources that back it up.

Well now it appears that Crown Lynn made a Bonzo jug going by the backstamp on this auction and it's from a very early timeframe. Heather has a few of these Bonzo ornamental dogs and believes that they were made by Crown Devon, but I can't find a photo of any of them now.

http://www.trademe.co.nz/Browse/Listing.aspx?id=775721076

Hes very cute aye, I think he is lovely but Im not sure its Bonzo he usually stands like a human & is a strung out cynical 1920s dog. He predates Mickey Mouse, bit early for CL me thinks..but then CL made Mickey Mouse, why not Bonzo Too!
These are my Bonzo Salt nPepper  made in Japan.

The Bonzo jug sold for $358 !!!!! Heather didn't win the war ....

Do you mean this Bonzo jug one Kat? I can't even find a pic on google, but hopefully I have one in my files ... and I do and Bonzo's mouth is like a triangle and Santa's has some teeth. Similar by different.

Yes thats the one, wow Id forgotten how much it sold for!

I have edited the title for this post, as there is no evidence that the bookends or the single dogs were made by Crown Lynn, especially the ones with glass eyes.
They were made by Crown Devon I believe.

Crown Lynn did make a Bonzo jug and this is stamped Crown Lynn 1948 - 1955.

Regardless of views held, without any hard evidence there is nothing to substantiate theories.