Royal Doulton Professionals series | The Bookworm plate D5905 | Yellow border | #2 souvenir 5 cms (10 1/3") diameterApprox

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Royal Doulton Fox Hunting plate

a stand immortalized in Lord Alfred Tennyson's "The Revenge: A Ballad of the Fleet"

warm flower centres and almost rose-coloured buds combine to make a novel design on a popular selection of shapes

as well as studies of wild and exotic animals

Royal Doulton Professionals series | The Bookworm plate D5905 | Yellow border | #2 souvenir 5 cms (10 1/3") diameterApproxRoyal Doulton Professionals The Bookworm rack plate D5905 Yellow border and brown rim Undoubtedly the scarcest of the Professional series plates, by far. Generally speaking the Yellow Border variation of the Bookworm plates was later in the production period than the Green Border variation so the Yellow border isn't quite as old but still dates to the 1940s. Generally the Yellow Border plate in my experience was made from a finer clay, and presents in