C&S Collectables was
established in 1986 standing at fairs around the south of
England selling ceramic collectable figurines. .
In 1992 C&S
approached Wade Potteries, as they were then called, to
have a figurine produced exclusively for the company. And
it was Arthur Hare from the children’s book The
Silent Butterfly by Caroline Parkes that they produced.
This proved so succesful that other characters from the
same book followed.
With Andy Capp in
1994, C&S were the first to commission Wade to
produce a licensed figure which was followed during the
next few years with international licensed characters
such as Betty Boop, Snoopy, Mr Magoo, Garfield, Mable
Lucy Attwell characters, Gingie Bear, Thomas The Tank
Engine and Friends, Rupert Bear and many other
licensed characters produced in various limited editions.
In 1995 C&S took
their first retail premises at 15 High Street, Arundel,
West Sussex, moving to Quay House in the Autumn of 1997.
1997 was also the year of the first Wade Swap Meet, now in its 12th year
and renamed The Wade Collectors Meet.
In 2001 C&S began
wholesaling giftware and collectables and moved to its
present location in Ford, two miles south of Arundel in
2002. It now supplies around 400 retailers in the
UK as well as keeping Wade collectors happy with
their direct mail order Betty Boop figurines
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Official Wade
Collectors Centre
Pat Murray signing one of her many Wade books.
Ross
Benson & Judith Miller
Gwyn Jones Editor of Collect it! magazine
Lorne Spicer
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