I’m not going to ask why, but Aidan is finally coming round to the beauty of ’50s pottery. Not so long ago, he proclaimed, “I just can’t see what you like about it…” Now, these are two of his favourites: I love the huge one but I’m not too keen on the small, pink one….
Tag: Scheurich
Balloon Vases: No Clowns Allowed
Yet another collection has been started as a result of the tripping to and fro from Deutschland: The Balloon Vases. The latest one is this: I wouldn’t recommend trying to tie these together on a piece of string, or popping them. However, you can try to make some good-looking displays: I did say try to…
Some Scheurich Stunners
No words necessary (apart from these); just pretty pictures of perfectly proportioned pottery. Aidan tells me that one’s a high form number for Scheurich, so there’s potential for it to be a later-made form. That particular pot was amazing on the journey from Germany – it was like the ceramic equivalent of Mary Poppins’ carpet…
Julian and Lisa Visit the ‘West German Hotline’
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…
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…
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?…
Present Parade: Scheurich 414
A couple of weeks ago, I bought another massive stack of vintage magazines from the same man I bought them from last summer. When we got gome, I excitedly grabbed a magazine off the top of the pile and flicked through. Imagine my amazement when the page above appeared! Proof that in 1967, West German…
Little Owl Ski 