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!

"I found a tiny man and my husband broke his head off looking for drugs."

Have you considered selling your story to Take a Break?

No idea what that is but there's a part of me that reckons you've unleashed the Curse of the Miniature Wine Bearer and will henceforth be finding mysterious red stains on all your linens...

What was the separate wrapping within the parcel like? Were the slippers sort of sealed/new?

Not weird at all, whenever I get something unexpected I immediately break it to see if there anything inside. I've ruined almost all of my Christmas and Birthday presents this way. I wish I could snap out of the bloomin' habit!

From the thumbnail pic I thought it was your cctv of a delivery driver walking down your garden path 😂 then I read your post and can’t believe your husband snapped it to check for drugs! There’d be such a tiny amount in it!

I love these type of random posts.

@Whatsnewpussyhat

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

Laughed out loud at this

@Finkelbraun

"I found a tiny man and my husband broke his head off looking for drugs."

Have you considered selling your story to Take a Break?

This would be a double page spread in Take A Break

What's the base of the figurine like?

Right , my take on this is :

It’s the distribution warehouse workers lucky charm , he picked it up at a car boot sale for 50p , he loved it because it looked like a little funny chap in a high vis vest.
Everyday he packed orders and rubbed the little lucky man to wish the parcels good luck on their travels

Two days ago he checked his work trousers pockets and the little man has gone ...

Fallen into a parcel and disappeared forever ...

Someone probably brought it to work to post later and it was misplaced or accidentally fell into your box. Check eBay to see if there any recently sold. Wilko is unlikely to trace where or who it came from but you’re definitely cursed for breaking its head off now it’s creepy

My husband broke his head off, apparently to check if there were drugs inside. Why was that his first thought?! How utterly random.

Is there a photo of the base?

'looking for drugs'

I'm just posting to find out more about the Lucknow toys because my ancestors came from there . Although maybe I should be annoyed that OP's DH decapitated the little Lucknow man and I should be working out a curse to avenge the dynasty of QueenSables.

Why didnt DH just drill a hole in the bottom to 'look for drugs'??? Thats what they do on those border control shows

Funny thing is i do actually recognise it

The tiny man was with the slippers. ...where are the slipper..is there a clue? did your DH destroy them looking for drugs?

Looks to me like an Aladdin figurine, holding the flask with the genie in it. Try rubbing the flask...

where are the slipper..is there a clue? did your DH destroy them looking for drugs?

Crying at the mental image of OP's husband tearing up a pair of orthopaedic slippers

I love that your husband’s immediate instinct is that it must be a way of transporting drugs, no other explanation likely .

As a pp said the staff might have a bunch of Trinkets and ornaments in the warehouse (I work for a larger publishing company and there are a few fun little friends around our distribution centre) and maybe one of them got caught up in the packing somehow.

Thanks for your replies. I was inside working when the whole incident unfolded.

I don’t know why my husband’s first instinct was to snap it’s head off... He’s been in a strop with me since I told him it looked like it could be antique. Some of these replies have made me laugh though.

For what it’s worth, I doubt it’s an antique (the hat was painted like, fluorescent pink!?), and I don’t see why someone would post their family heirloom out with a pair of slippers?

So the prevailing theory is, someone with an Ebay shop intended to post the figure and slippers to the same buyer, took it to work with them at the Wilkos warehouse, and accidentally slipped it in with a towel order? I guess!

Ps. slippers as requested. They look new to me.

Christ between this thread and the women scared of plotting Rottweilers walking slowly I’ll never need to watch tv again.

Is it me or is MN absolutely batshit atm?!

where are the slipper..is there a clue? did your DH destroy them looking for drugs?

Crying at the mental image of OP's husband tearing up a pair of orthopaedic slippers grin

Stop, this is making me laugh so much.

On the Sedagyl website, it says on the order form to tick a box if you want a free gift, although I'm guessing what looks like something second hand probably isn't that!

Has your husband been watching a lot of Border Force?