DROYT NATURAL GLYCERINE SOAP

Interestingly we have had two recent communications regarding Droyt figure soaps, last made by us in the 1960’s.

The first is a nice story. A lady rang to say that she had a nice example of Droyt No 91 “Hen, Chickens and Eggs” which had been given to her by my colleague’s great-uncle in the 1950’s when she was girl. It was in very good condition and did we want to buy it from her for our display cabinet? We agreed to have a look at it and sure enough it was in very nice condition and was also in its original box. We were very happy to buy it as all our examples are rather poor and I’m not even sure if we have a box. Anyway the price was set at £25. This may be of interest to anyone who has an old Droyt figure soap. The most popular one by far was PC49 and another lady contacted us to say that how happy she was to see PC49 on our website she had a He sold in his hundreds of thousands. He was made from our ‘Tah’ soap base with single colour and painting, (gold on his buttons and helmet badge) and packed into a nice box which is so typical of the packing on the time. So I imagine that a good example of him could be worth about £15. Somewhere I’ve got an old price list so I’ll see if I can find it and scan it in.

Alistair

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