Many of you will have followed us on our previous Whimsie-Nation American Road Trip sometime ago. Plans are now underway for a Great British Road Trip as we come out of the Pandemic, and with a new range of Whimsie-Nation Wade Whimsies being launched, we have a new road trip planned to promote the new Whimsies. This will take us to the four corners of Britain and we hope you will be able to follow the trip on our Whimsie-Nation Facebook page facebook.com/whimsienation. All the details can be found on the website page here.  There will be Wade Whimsie prizes to be won daily. All you will have to do to enter is guess our location on each Facebook post and submit your entry on the website. Details will be posted daily during the trip. All those who guess the correct location will be entered into a daily draw and the winner will be drawn live on the Whimsie-Nation page each day. So make plans now to join us on our Whimsie-Nation Great British Road Trip. 

We recently made the trip to Stoke-on-Trent as Jenny had arranged for us to visit the factory for a much-anticipated catch up with Paul Farmer, OBE. Paul is the Managing director of Wade. We had a long chat with Paul about the recent F1 pieces that have appeared on the market. He told us that they had recently moved out of their storage unit as the lease had expired, and some of the F1 standard pieces and some other items had been left behind in error. However the remainder of the F1 standard collectables archive has now been released to the club, to offer to our collectors.

The F1 standard pieces are figurines and Whimsies that customers of Wade sign off prior to production commencing.  This is the piece that the decorators will have used as a standard to decorate each piece. Most of them are marked F1 and or signed by Jenny Wright - JW. We also have some pieces that have never made it to production and some colourway items.

The first of these pieces will be offered for sale during the Wade Fest Live weekend. There is only one of each of most of the Whimsies and figurines, so don’t miss out!

Seen below are some of the items we will have for sale next Saturday 24th July, during the Wade Fest Live Event. Each F1 sample will come with a special signed Wade Collectors Club certificate of authenticity. 

CHECK OUT THE F1 STANDARD SAMPLE SALE HERE

We recently discovered a few copies of the original Adventures of Arthur Hare - The Silent Butterfly children's book in our store. A real blast from the past! Written in 1994, the book had moderate success in the UK. For those of you who have not heard of the book, we are offering a limited number of copies at the price of £9.99 each and will include a free Arthur Hare Whimsie and postage.  So that is all there is, nothing else to pay for this first edition original childrens story book.  We only have a few, so it is first come first served.  

You can buy a copy now click here..

William Harper - A Short Biography (Updated 27/01/2021)

William Harper only worked for Wade for a period of nine years, from 1953 until 1962 but during that relatively short period he produced some of the most sort after pieces to ever come out of the Wade factories. continue reading ......

Our 2021 Wade Club Membership Pieces - Extended Happy Family Grandma and Pops Polar Bears. Join the Wade Collectors Club here.