Featured Roger A Shufflebotham urn

I grabbed this on my way home yesterday. I got quite excited when I realised that Roger A Shufflebotham worked for Minton previously. He was a porcelain decorator all of his life and eventually went freelance after he left Caverswall. Sadly the finial has been snapped off and glued back on with bubbly bostic glue, by the looks of it. I'm considering trying to touch up the damaged area with gilt paint. What type of paint do they use to decorate these kinds of pieces?
h=27cm

 

Very nice!
Worthy, perhaps, of a Kintsugi repair?

 

I dunno. If you're going to sell it, I wouldn't bother and leave it up to the purchaser to fix or not. You'd have to reveal that it's been repaired anyway and it's such a common problem. Lovely item -- I like the fact that it's been free hand-painted.

 

Agree. If resale is your objective, restoration best left to the new buyer.

Debora

 

Not heard of Kintsugi. They look decent and reasonably priced. I'll leave it to the buyer as advised above though. Will look into it for other repairs though.

 

Yes it's a fine piece of decor

 

Roger A Shufflebotham.... really?

Sounds like a name in a Dickens novel. Next time I need a fake name....

 

Yes I laughed out loud when I first read the name. I thought it sounded like a dodgy alias too. I was only swung by the limited edition part as I had never heard of him.

 

This will be a a good start:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kintsugi

 

I rather like the name he used, real or not.

 

There may be a relatively ancient foundation to that family moniker, descriptive, in its original Old English origin, to a craft or trade, a location, Lord of the Manor or some other distinguishing aspect of identification. Surely all of Dickens' characters didn't have made-of-whole-cloth names, eh? Just an observation, y'all.

 

Sounds like some Dutch surnames which we call 'Napoleonic names'.
When Louis Napoleon was king of the Netherlands everyone had to be registered. Some people thought that the French authorities didn't have the right to meddle in Dutch affairs so they registered fake, often ridiculous sounding surnames.
One of my friends had such a surname, her family was allowed to change it for free because it was rather rude.

 

So rude it can't be printed here?

 

The name was Klote. It is a curseword and a colloquial word for part of the male anatomy, and no doubt an expression of how people felt about the registration.

 

Featherstonehaugh. I met a girl with that surname when I was a kid.

 

Here are my 2 life-time oddest names:
An NCO in the US Air Force (1963); Gustav VonSievenhoven...
A girl in High School, Piedmont, California (1950's);
Phenable Lazowieni...
In both, I may have reversed the ie from ei.

 

My favourite unusual name is that of German film director Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck. He is an earl btw.

 

At least those are pronounceable. The Dutch one is probably the equivalent of Schlong ... male anatomy in Yiddish. (Yiddish is awesome for rude words.)

Phenable as a first name is no odder than some of what's out there now. Cadence (male) comes to mind.

Fan-shaw. The trick is spelling it, or having the space to spell it.

 

aren't names fun !!! ....... specially Bond girls !!

 

I just hope no one ever named their kid Pussy Galore!