This is what Goff at Wowie Zowie christened us last week, leaving a message for the ‘West German Hotline’. It did make me laugh! Anyway, Julian and Lisa visited last night along with their son, Christopher (a WGP expert in the making!) to look at the fruits of the latest German Road trip. We chased my…
Tag: pottery
Who’s the Daddy (pot)?
I did say a couple of posts back that we’d found another large Scheurich orange and brown bulbous vase, the same as one we got very excited about on our first ever trip; yet this time we were a bit ‘so what?’ about it. Oh, was I a little bit too hasty in my judgement:…
I thought I saw a Scheurich 414…
Another trip, another Scheurich 414: This is a new glaze for my collection, which brings me up to 26 different ones in total. The space on top of the blanket box is definitely narrowing. I think I may have to start pushing hard for a new shelf to be put up. We also found another…
Beware of the Ugly Vases!
There’s a secret lurking around the West German Pottery world. If you can keep it quiet, I’ll let you in on it: Many Roth vases are not actually that nice. There, I’ve said it. Just felt that I needed to get that off my chest. Now don’t get me wrong, there are many, many lovely…
Ruscha: Love, Loathe, Like or Leave?
I tend to like the Dumler & Breiden, Carstens and Scheurich pieces of West German Pottery in any batch that we bring back from Germany and I often gravitate towards posting pictures of them. For once, I thought I’d share some from factories that many people rate highly; yet, I often ignore. First up is…
Help! Pottery has taken over my house!
In all their glory! Well, not quite all of them. Some bits and bobs were hiding behind me: The two square ceramic wall hangings (four in each set, sun designs, red and blue – to make it clear which ones I mean!) were found within an hour of each other and *cough, cough* both by…
Where it All Began: A Retro Pottery Obsession
In exactly thirty five minutes, we will be setting off on our fourth trip to Germany in the last seven months. We’re hoping to return as laden down as always. As a nice little ‘fare thee well’, I thought I’d share this picture: We used to live in a tiny flat in Levenshulme when we first…
Six Days and Counting…
This time next week, we will probably be just pulling into the first of our Formule1 Hotels. Each time we’ve been to Germany, we’ve stayed in a Formule1 Hotel: they’re cheap, cheerful and have the best (and most powerful) modular showers I’ve ever seen. I’m still being lazy and stealing Aidan’s Ebay pictures of pottery…
Guess What? Yeah… more pottery…
More of the ‘Last of the Last’ – German pots remaining from our last German Roadtrip. Ten Days until the next trip… we’d probably be setting off at about this time as well! The odd thing about that ES pink pot is that the 9 on the base is the wrong way round. Not sure…
Space Age Pottery for a Soggy Saturday
I’m probably completely out with my dates and perception of when these pots were produced, but… they look so space age to me: This one cost the grand sum of 12 Euros on, I think, the last trip to Germany. I think it could be an engine, or maybe a transistor of my pottery rocket?…
West German Pottery for Sale!
Scheurich 529-25 for sale here… We’ve booked our next Germany trip! Hurray! Aidan is nearly finished with selling the pots from the last trip on Ebay! Hurray! It’s our Eight Year Anniversary today! Hurray! Lots of things to be happy about. Buy it here… I don’t normally do any advertising, but I’m that excited about seeing…
A Humdrum Sunday…
I’ve spent the entire weekend working, pretty much. I need to get on with something now, but I’m feeling entirely unmotivated. Or demotivated. One or the other. This morning, I’ve done everything I can to avoid working: I even went for a run! In honour of my humdrum Sunday, I thought I’d share pictures of…
Little Owl Ski 