Q: Can you tell me the value of an unusual jug I have, in the shape of a bird with a pointed beak? It is about 12 inches tall, is blue and green, and has the name Brannam on it.

Mrs W.

Charles Brannam founded a pottery in Barnstaple, Devon, about 1880 and many of his products feature fish and birds. The example you have sounds like it may be one of his grebe jugs, and examples are very collectable. Value would be about £200. Charles Brannam died in the 1930s, but I believe the firm is still in business.