WWI Old Bill Porcelain Cheese Dish – Item 95178

Rare and seldom found WWI Old Bill commemorative cheese dish and cover. Decorated around edge with some of the famous WWI cartoons. Base decorated with Old Bill souvenirs, including picklehaube, tommy helmet etc. Good undamaged condition.

Note:  Captain Charles Bruce Bairnsfather was a prominent British humorist and cartoonist. His best-known cartoon character is Old Bill. Bill and his pals Bert and Alf featured in Bairnsfather’s weekly “Fragments from France” cartoons published weekly in The Bystander magazine during the First World War