I first went here with my parents and we all came away with a lucky duck.
You can watch the skilled assistants working, continuing a tradition started by Mr Peter Rantell in 1958, at the workbench, drawing, bending, and fashioning coloured glass into the firm's speciality, the Whitby Lucky Duck, in colours corresponding to the gem stones associated with each month's birthdays.
lucky ducks; The first of the company's hallmark Lucky Ducks was originally made at the request of actors from the Whitby Theatre who required a lucky charm in glass. Made at a workbench in the shop, the public can actually watch the creation of ducks. Whitby Lucky Duck, in colours corresponding to the gem stones associated with each month's birthdays. Everyone should have a duck.
The work of other hand-craftsmen is assembled here, glass flowers in vases, birds, fish, teddy bears, elephants, dolphins, spun glass tipped with gold and a host of glass novelties. They also sell marbles..the playing sort.and glass sweets.