Early duck colours - 1955 to 1958

The Whitefriars duck was first produced in 1955, and continued right up until the closure of the factory in 1980. During that time the size, colour, overall shape and the finer detail, all changed quite a lot, if you know what to look for, more on that later. Today I am focusing on colours.

Here we have our collection of the Early ducks, produced from 1955 to 1958.

From left to right they are Golden Amber, Flint, Sea Green, Sapphire Blue & Twilight. They are shown here in both the Large 7", and Small 5.5". These early examples can be readily identified as they are a single solid colour, except Ruby. They were made in Ruby during this period, and are quite elusive, having not been catalogued. The Ruby ducks were shown as "S/Ruby" in the factory production records for this period, the Foot & Beak were Flint (clear) glass and the main Body and Head were Ruby, cased in Flint.

Ducks in Sea Green & Sapphire Blue were discontinued at the end of 1958. The style also changed slightly for 1959.

All ducks colours are shown here - Duck colours