Rip Van Winkle D6463 – Lighter – Royal Doulton

Royal Doulton Lighter, Rip Van Winkle Lighter D6463 (grey-blue cap; brown robes; figure dressed in blue resting against tree). Designed by Geoff Blower, issued 1958 – Unknown. Size: 3.5″H

In 1820, the American writer Washington Irving wrote the story of Rip Van Winkle, based on legends he had heard from Dutch settlers. While walking in the Catskill Mountains of New York, Rip drinks a fairy potion, falls asleep for 20 years and wakes to find an unrecognizable world.