White versus Cream swans

Hello swanologists. Just wondered if white small swans (154) are rarer, than the cream? I have noticed on TradeMe that people ask if it is white or cream and more often than not they are cream. Is the white more rare and therefore more valuable?

My Nana worked at Crown Lynn and so I have some swans that she would have collected during her time working there. She also had a wonderful little saucer plate with a grey cat face on it, which was just like their grey cat. It was also Crown Lynn.

I have a white crown lynn swan with 2065 only on the back, I assume this is rarer than the 154, as I dont see them up for sale much?

I have three Crown Lynn small swans in total, each with a totally different backstamp?! They chopped and changed a bit didn't they.

Hi, part of the Crown Lynn charm is the way they chopped and changed things around!!

Your little swan is a more recent one than the 154...same piece but made in the years Crown Lynn ran the Titian factory at Takanini..they renumbered for some strange reason..My Auckland Museum notes date the first 2065s and the 2066s (the bigger 170) to March 1971.

That is my understanding anyway -and the 2147 (the rarer medium size) were only made in limited numbers from April 1981 and dont date back to the earlier times of the 154s and the 170s.

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