After a while more and more collectors & dealers were discovering the demand for Wade and it became harder to find stock so in 1992 we approached Wade to have our Arthur Hare character from the Childrens book The Silent Butterfly produced. This proved such a great success that other characters followed. With Andy Capp in 1994, C&S were the first ever to commission Wade to produce a licensed figure which was followed over the next few years with international characters such as Betty Boop, Snoopy, Garfield, The Arthur Hare Collection and many other licensed characters produced in various limited editions available by mail order.

In 1995 we took our first retail premises at 15 High Street, Arundel, West Sussex, moving to our current premises The Official Wade Collectors' Centre in the Autumn of 1997 which was also the year of the first Wade Swap Meet this proved to be a huge success. The Collectors' Centre has become popular worldwide and has received a lot of media attention from TV & Press with articles appearing in the Mail on Sunday's Collecting by Lorne Spicer, The Daily Telegraph and the Daily Express, also our Arthur Hare character has featured on Channel Four's Collectors' Lot and ITV's Antiques Trail. (right) Judith Miller & Ross Benson intrigued by the Beanie Babies when they visited the centre in December 1999. Many articles have been written on C&S Collectables in various publications. Collect It! featured an article on Wade collecting in their first issue after the editor Gwyn Jones (right) had visited the shop & Susan Brewer has written articles on Betty Boop and Arthur Hare for the collectors magazine Collectables. Many other articles have appeared in Collect It! on the Centre and C&S and this magazine has proved to be the #1 choice for collectors.

In January 2000 C&S were honoured to receive the title of The Official UK Hagen-Renaker Collectors Centre. The President of Hagen-Renaker Mrs Susan Nikas said that she attributes the growth in sales in the UK to C&S Collectables.

We now carry a larger selection of collectables, Hagen Renaker ,Coalport Warner Bros, Retired Wade, and Sugarlump Studios. (left) Hayley. (right) The crowds at the 1999 Wade Swap Meet scour the many stalls hoping to find a bargain. A friendly welcome awaits all visitors to the Centre. See you there!

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