During the last blog I wrote, I suddenly became very self-conscious about the fact that I was writing. I’d looked at my stats and found that over 1200 views had been counted last month and I suddenly thought, “Blimey, it’s not just me, Aidan and our parents that read this anymore!” I’m not sure why…
Tag: pottery
Bay Keramik: Some New, Some Old
It’s safe to say that the German Road Trip: Part Two was a massive success! We’ve arrived home with over 140 pieces of pottery, several retro lamp shades, a few 80s metal clocks, plant pots, some pieces of glass and two version of J.H. Lynch’s ‘Tina’ print. Phew! Once again, Tina (the KA) did not…
Glossop’s Loss is Chorlton’s Gain…
The lovely couple at Wowie Zowie in Chorlton came round last evening to have a look at the pots, and ended up buying about half of them. So we have a little bit more room in the living room and the people of Chorlton can now get stuck into decorating their houses 70s style with…
Lovely Lava, Gorgeous Glazes, Perfect Pots…
Here are some of the photos from the collection we brought back. We’ve taken out ones that we want to keep, now we just have to find out how to sell the others. Probably not going to be an easy task! Some we’re keeping: Those are some of my favourites; there’s plenty more to…
Back from Germany – pots ahoy!
Well, we got back on Sunday afternoon feeling tired, dirty and utterly thrilled with our haul of pottery! We’d had a fantastic second week in Germany, staying with another of the Pottery and Glass forum members near Nuremburg, before heading back up to the Essen area to look for more pottery. One of the best…
Ransbach-Baumbach and Jopeko
After Essen, we had to make our way South towards Worms and Speyer. Before we set off, we trundled around a few more Trödelmarkts, filling the car up even further. Once Tina was fit to bursting yet again, we began the next leg of our journey. We spotted that our route was going to take…
Part Two: The Ruhrgebeit
Another thing about me and travelling: map-reading. I’m pretty shocking at it. I have a tendency to send us off a junction or road too early, can’t seem to orientate the map and find it really difficult to follow where we are on our route. This hasn’t helped us being able to find Trödelmarkts which…
German Road Trip: Travelling, Tongeren and Trödelmarkts
It probably wasn’t a good sign when I got us lost in Britain. Our first stopover was to break up the journey to Dover, staying at Aidan’s brother’s house in Letchworth. Unfortunately, I managed to direct Aidan off the motorway a stop too early and we spent a good half an hour trundling down some…
A Very Vintage Fishy Story…
This is a tale of a plate, a very fishy plate. Virtually everyone who’s interested in retro, vintage, mid century modern, 60s, 70s, etc. etc. will recognise the following plates: I’ve got a set, you’ve got a set; everyone has got a set. Usually bought from some old dear at a car boot sale who…
Aidan’s Guest Blog 2: Carstens Candle Holder
Guest blog number two from Emma’s other half. This one is about a rather unusual little candle holder which I treated myself to from a certain online website (Ebay) a few months ago. Predictably its West German and this one is made by Carstens, identification made easy by a little cloth label on its chest…
Aidan’s Birthday Presents
Confession time: Aidan’s birthday was in February… Admittedly, he was given these a couple of weeks after the event, but still that is fairly slack of me to only just be posting them up now. As they were his presents, Aidan has taken the pictures himself: The Scheurich one is my favourite of the two….
Penny’s Pretty, Potty Pots…
These are some new purchases by my parents: Watch out for the cat appearing… Tyler, the cat, was obviously getting a little bit jealous of the attention the pots were getting! I know that these are Scheurich and the form numbers; however, I know nothing about the glaze as I’ve never seen ones like…
Little Owl Ski 