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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;JustinR, post: 414891, member: 8854&quot;]As odd as this seems, this post sent me down a search that I&#039;m pretty sure answers the question, and the answer isn&#039;t &quot;Made in Japan&quot;.</p><p><br /></p><p>I copied the image, did a reverse image search and got this:</p><p><a href="http://www.cyberattic.com/stores/sherrysantiques/items/1336002/Rare-Beth-Barton-style-anthropomorphic-Beetle-bug-smoking-cigar-figure" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.cyberattic.com/stores/sherrysantiques/items/1336002/Rare-Beth-Barton-style-anthropomorphic-Beetle-bug-smoking-cigar-figure" rel="nofollow">http://www.cyberattic.com/stores/sherrysantiques/items/1336002/Rare-Beth-Barton-style-anthropomorphic-Beetle-bug-smoking-cigar-figure</a></p><p><br /></p><p>Then took the name, did another search for &quot;Beth Barton Figurines&quot;&nbsp; and got this:</p><p><a href="https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Beth_Barton_bugs.jpg" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Beth_Barton_bugs.jpg" rel="nofollow">https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Beth_Barton_bugs.jpg</a></p><p><br /></p><p>Following the usage of the image to Wiki articles, it comes up in &quot;California Pottery&quot; with an artist named Beth Barton being active in the 1940s and 1950s:</p><p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/California_pottery" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/California_pottery" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/California_pottery</a></p><p><br /></p><p>So it seems to me that there was a woman named Beth Barton who made these figurines either in response to the post-war Japan figurines above, or her work was so popular at the point that occupied Japan started making knock-offs and sending them back.</p><p><br /></p><p>As for the rest of the pieces, I&#039;m still coming across them in various check box sized boxes - I&#039;ll post more up once I have a better idea of how many pieces i am or am not dealing with.</p><p><br /></p><p>Thanks for the input![/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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