C&S Collectables Direct Wade Ceramic Collectables

About Us
C&S Collectables was established in 1986 by David Chown & Russell Schooley. We began standing at fairs around the West Sussex area selling mainly Wade and other ceramic collectable figurines more ...

Betty Boop Feature
Betty Boop started out in the early 1930's as a dog character, primarily as the love interest of a dog character named Bimbo, in the Talkartoons series produced by Dave & Max Fleischer. She was featured in several cartoons as this dog character through 1930. It didn't take long for Betty to surpass Bimbo in popularity, and become the main character in many of her cartoons Bimbo was portrayed either as her the cartoons more ...

Ceramic Wall Plaques
During the late 1950's, the highly prestigious Hagen-Renaker Pottery of San Dimas, California, produced the most stunning plaques and wall hanging figures which covered a variety of subjects from butterflies, horses, fish and a bison to still life more ...

George Wade Feature
Sir George Wade was born plain George Albert Wade on July 19th 1891 in Burslem. His father, also George, owned a pottery in Burslem and was a local Justice of the Peace (JP). Young George had an older sister, Daisy but she died aged three in 1893 leaving George to grow up as an only child more ...

Hagen-Renaker Tour
Hagen-Renaker as most people now know, began in a garage in Culver City in California in 1944. At that time they were producing tableware dishes, flower bowls, plates and plaques. The next major development occurred in 1947 with Maxine Renaker's thumb sized duck.(left picture) which in effect was the beginning of the miniature line. By 1951 Hagen-Renaker had expanded and moved to Monrovia where the Designer's workshop was started in 1952 and run by Bill Nicely and Nell Bortells more ...

Wade-Hagen-Renaker connection
Since the end of the Second World War there has been a close relationship, both personal and working, between the Wade group of potteries of Burslem, Stoke-on-Trent, UK and the Hagen-Renaker Pottery of Los Angeles, California in the USA. For many years Iris Carryer, Sir George Wade's eldest daughter, was great friends with Maxine Renaker, wife of the founder of the company Jim Renaker, indeed after her retirement from Wade Ireland in 1963, Iris and her husband, Strayker Carryer actually worked for a number of years for Hagen-Renaker as their Southern California representitives more ...

Wade & Jessie Van Hallen Feature
As with many other great people, Jessie van Hallen only really achieved fame after her death in 1983 when Wade collecting was in its prime. Since then her name, along with those of her contemporaries Clarice Cliff and Susie Cooper have, like theirs become synonymous with ceramics more ...