Dick Turpin and Tom King, 10" tall....The Staffordshire figures get their name from the county where they were made, Staffordshire which is located in the West Midlands of England. Most of the major potteries in England are located in this part of the country. The figures that most people collect today are from the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. There were beautiful figures made in the eighteenth century, but these more expensive figures are not what most people collect. Some of the figures from the earlier part of the 1800’s were more detailed and also more colorful. But this article is going to focus on the figures most of us collect. Most of the really skilled workers, which were men in Victorian times concentrated on more expensive and higher quality pottery. The Staffordshire figures we are discussing were usually decorated by women and children. There were no child labor laws and child labor was cheap. These figures were designed to sell to the middle class of Victorian England.