In
November 1999 Stephen prepared this Sunbirds box as a trial
just in time for it to be accepted for the second Moorcroft
Enamels catalogue of 2000. The trial piece shown here has
the anvil (A) year mark but the pieces produced for the edition
of 50 would have had the balloon (B) year mark. It is one
of the few Moorcroft Enamels pieces that featured non-British
bird species.
Moorcroft
held back a lot of trial pieces like this, together with number
1 of each edition, but sold them off when the decision was
taken to close the company.