Bidspirit auction | A Collection of Porcelain Bird

A Collection of Porcelain Bird Figurines including Crown Staffordshire and Franklin Porcelain Examples - A collection of porcelain bird figurines and a wall-mounted thermometer plaque featuring various songbirds and owls. The group includes a porcelain magpie figure perched on a stump with blue floral details, marked to the base with a green printed circular mark reading FINE BONE CHINA CROWN ESTD 1801 STAFFORDSHIRE ENGLAND around a crown device, with a printed signature J. T. Jones and modelled by, and handwritten 25 and A characters. Two limited edition RSPB series figurines are included, comprising a linnet and a chestnut-sided warbler, both marked with printed black circular RSPB logos. The linnet base is dated 1984 and carries a gold adhesive label reading CRAFTED IN JAPAN, while the warbler base is dated 1980. A porcelain nuthatch is marked with a blue V device dated 1967 and a silver adhesive label reading Kleiber Nuthatch Sitta. The assortment also contains two barn owl figures on wooden plinths with silver-tone metal plaques reading Barn Owl by Leonardo and Barn Owls by Leonardo respectively, a robin, a blue tit, an eastern bluebird, and a painted bunting. The wall-mounted thermometer plaque is decorated with two bluebirds and floral motifs, featuring a central liquid thermometer and the printed text May all your days be beautiful.