This one REALLY blows me away. When I first got this house it had the prettiest and nicest little clay girl on it and of course I lost it. I have been so disheartened about it that I could never bring myself to restore it. NOTE the fuzzy windows ALL over the place. BUT where is this color scheme coming from? This yellow orange coconut, Dark Royal Blue and light Baby blue are NOT typical products of this company AT least not all on one house. I have seen the dark blue and a very similar but more burnt orange and indeed a yellow coconut but almost always a red and white roof. But in all of Christendom there was never a paper label house with a figure on it. COUNT on it. Many people have glued aftermarket figures to these houses but they are misbegotten. Note further that the mark though it mimics the paper label is an ink stamped mark. HOWEVER it is still the same company. Remember the set of small houses I pictured on this site a few days ago? 5 of those 8 houses had this same ink stamp and clearly go with the rest of the group. I really don't know what the answer to these little conundrums is But in this instance it could just be a very early house for this company and they quickly dropped the figures. BUT it also looks VERY much like a known coconut house design right down to the color scheme. The other speculation is that early on they would contract out occasionally some houses for other makers who were behind on their contractual obligations and called on another company to help out.
This is NOT an unheard of thing to happen and I think is the most logical. In this country Homer Laughlin contracted with Mothers Oats to supply them with a solid color floral pattern for use as a premium. It became so successful that They couldn't keep up with demand (they also had other contractual obligations) and so sub-contracted it out to Taylor Smith & Taylor who before it was done made nearly as much as Homer Laughlin. "Ah such are the mysteries. . ." Papa Ted
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