To ask for help identifying this tiny man

[UnexpectedTinyMan]

So the story is, a family member ordered a completely boring order of towels and a bath mat from Wilkos.

This came today, and inside the package (wrapped up separately) was a pair of orthopaedic Sedagyl slippers (the kind an old woman might wear - not sold by Wilkos, that I can see) and THIS tiny man - pic attached.

My husband broke his head off, apparently to check if there were drugs inside, and there were thin wires inside going through the whole clay of the body . It was made of a kind of soft clay that breaks easily, and the paint rubs off easily. He is holding some sort of wine jug. We can’t find anything even close on the Wilkos website.

Any one who can 1. Identify this tiny man and 2. Explain why he was in a Wilkos parcel with a pair of slippers, I’ll be really impressed!

Someone posting packages through work and got mixed up?

But wouldn’t it be despatched from the Wilkos warehouse?

To clarify, the slippers and tiny man were wrapped up separately WITHIN the original Wilkos order. So the original Wilkos order did arrive as well.

He looks like a Clive to me

How odd..

The wire inside is nothing sinister, wire is often used inside models/figurines as an armature to build them on.

It looks antique, shame its now broken!

This is so weird! Have you contacted Wilkos to see if they can investigate and maybe ask the warehouse your order came from?

Hopefully he wasn't a valuable antique!
www.the-saleroom.com/en-gb/auction-catalogues/25-blythe-road/catalogue-id-sr2510000/lot-afc34217-c0b4-42a0-af01-a3f700c33ffb

Agree the wire is just part of the plasterwork to provide structure

Where's the slipper picture?

Timpo Arab series maybe?

Possibly worth money until you snapped the head off

asiainch.org/craft/clay-toys-of-lucknow/

Why on earth was your husband's first thought to snap its head off, before even contacting Wilko's to find out what could have happened?

OMG it was your lucky day! I can’t believe you snapped the head off!

Yeah looks like an antique and the wires as everyone has said is normal in claywork. Why did your husband break its head off to check for drugs thats so random. Have you contacted wilko yet?

place marking for no good reason, intrigued to know more about the tiny man!

So weird to break it! Could be someone's heirloom.

I'd be checking the heels of the old lady slippers.
They always hide their stash there.

Broke its head off, you say? Well, you're probably cursed now...

It's very weird. Have you called Wilkos to ask?

What sort of hat is that? It looks like a white traffic cone!!!

Obviously the sandals and the tiny man is pretty weird. But your husband's reaction of breaking it open is even weirder.

Break it open to check for drugs? Has been watching a lot of The Wire and Border Patrol?

Oh! That was an expensive error by your DH! As others have said that could have been quite a valuable item.

How the hell it got there will probably remain a mystery.

Maybe a surprise present wrapped in a boring one, intended as a surprise, but it went badly wrong!

Well it’s destroyed now so even if you find out it’s academic.

Can't believe he snapped it's head off. You'd just about fit one line of coke it that.

How was his first thought to snap it’s head off and check for drugs?! How odd!

Tony. I'm sure I've met him on a night out before?